A Halstead based organisation will host its annual jumble sale next month at Holy Trinity church, which has stood in the town for over 180 years.

On this day February22 in 1966, Roderic Norman Coote was officially appointed as the new Bishop of Colchester during an investiture ceremony at Lambeth Palace, led by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

The captives were handed over in staged ceremonies that the Red Cross and Israel have condemned as cruel and disrespectful.

The M25 anticlockwise exit slip at Junction 27 (Stansted/M11) remains closed due to a police incident, with all lanes currently shut.

Thieves in France used a stolen bank card to buy a winning lottery ticket worth 500,000 euros (£414,000). But they vanished before cashing in – and now they are among the country’s most famous ...