Essex Police's specialist armed officers have attended 14,000 incidents this year – but haven’t fired a shot in the line of duty for a decade.

A major supermarket is offering free apples for children to help the nation eat more fruit and vegetables at the start of 2026.

Officers made 14 arrests and stopped 180 vehicles in a roads operation monitoring delivery drivers across Essex.

With dazzling lights and a cacophony of joyous tooting, a village’s annual Christmas Convoy brought joy to everyone on Christmas Eve.

Ken Jones was a teacher and headmaster of Budhanilkantha School in Kathmandu, Nepal, where he served from 1975 to 1982.

Traffic has been stopped on the M25 near St Albans and Watford this morning after a van caught fire, according to National Highways.

You know the tune and now Jet2holidays key message is ‘Nothing beats that just-booked feeling!’

Plans have been approved for a new restaurant to open at 48-50 Market Street in Watford.

Filming took place in Bricket Wood and St Albans for Finding Father Christmas, a new Channel 4 film starring Stephen Fry, Greg Davies and James Buckley.

Police are appealing for the public's help to find a missing man who was last seen yesterday morning inside the Harlequin shopping centre in Watford.