News in Basildon

A 75-year-old Basildon woman found herself in court after a clash with a neighbour ended with her hurling abuse - and rubbish - onto an adjacent property.

Victoria Devonport of Tanswell Avenue, denied three charges of harassment, using threatening, abusive or insulting behaviour and breaching a previous community protection notice.

BASILDON Borough Twinning Association has decided to collect food items to donate to a local food bank in the Basildon Borough to help bring families some festive cheer.

If you would like to donate – either food or cash, so the association can buy food or items such as Christmas biscuits, chocolates, puddings cakes, crackers etc….

FUTURE cancer patients in the region could get their diagnosis more quickly thanks to a new test which could help detect more than 50 types of cancer being trialled at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust which includes Basildon Hospital among its hospitals.

More than 700 patients from south and mid Essex have already taken part in the nationwide SYMPLIFY study, supported by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), will investigate a new multi-cancer early detection test in the NHS, known as Galleri, for patients with non-specific symptoms that could be a result of undiagnosed cancer.

THE Crimestoppers charity has offered a £10,000 reward for information which leads to the arrest and conviction of the person or people responsible for the murder of Basildon man Terry Leeks.

Mr Leeks, 46, died after being stabbed in Northlands Park in Pitsea in the early hours of July 11.

A BASILDON man has been spared jail after magistrates who convicted him of making threatening phone calls showed leniency because of his family commitments.

Jamie Clark, 34, of Cattawade Link, made the calls to a woman and Essex Police on 8 June with the intention of causing anxiety or distress to the recipients.

DETECTIVES are no longer treating the death of a woman in Dewsgreen, Vange, as murder.

Police were called to concerns for the welfare of the woman shortly after 6.40am yesterday morning (Thursday, 4 November). They arrived and found the woman, aged in her 60s, had died.

A MAN who stabbed two other men outside a nightclub in Basildon is set to be sentenced next month.

Wagner Silva had been at Unit 7 nightclub at Festival Leisure Park when a disturbance broke out at about 4am on Saturday, 2 October. Silva was in a group of about 15 people when a fight broke out within that group.

ESSEX County Council has defended its decision to close a carriageway on a busy local road, even though the decision has infuriated motorists who have queued for up to 90 minutes to get past the scene – only to see no work has been done there since the cones went up at the beginning of the week.

The closure of the carriageway just after the Five Bells roundabout on the eastbound A13 will continue for at least another week before work begins.

ESSEX Police volunteer police officers, especially those stationed in Basildon, have been presented with The Queen's Award for Voluntary Service to mark the huge contribution they make in helping to keep our county safe.

Essex Lord-Lieutenant Jennifer Tolhurst presented the award on behalf of the Queen to Derek Hopkins MBE, Deputy Chief Officer of the Essex Police Special Constabulary, who received it on behalf of the force's 504 Specials.

THIS weekend will see the final weekend in a series of events to celebrate Wickford.

Basildon Council has been behind a number of 'Welcome Back Wickford' Saturday events in the town centre.