Radio Essex

The creative team behind a suicide prevention play has said the show is about "a cause bigger than any one of us", after an actor quit the show over the casting of Dame Maureen Lipman and their differing political views.

Gary Glitter has pleaded not guilty to eight allegations of sexual abuse against a young girl dating back to the 1970s and 1980s.

Sky News has announced a new format for its flagship Sunday morning current affairs programme, with a rotating line-up of high-profile guest presenters taking the helm.

The UK is in a "deeply uncomfortable" fiscal position ahead of next month's budget, experts have warned, after government borrowing costs soared to a near 30-year high amid growing pressure on global bond yields.

A schoolboy who stabbed a teacher in the head has been sentenced to four-and-a-half years in youth detention.

Several schools will close early on Friday "to ensure pupils' safety" as the first funeral for one of five young men killed in the A66 wrong-way crash is set to take place.