2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (451+ words) Former employees of Rockstar North have begun an employment tribunal, claiming they were unfairly dismissed while working on the upcoming video game Grand Theft Auto VI. A group of former employees are claiming they were unfairly dismissed for trade union activities....

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (241+ words) Aftermath - Police tape and cones have cordoned off the scene (Image: Halle Groves, Newsquest)> Police presence remains on Halstead High Street after a cash machine was ripped from a building in the early hours of this morning. Officers closed the…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (379+ words) THE heart-broken family of missing woman Vitória Barreto are urging people with information to come forward, six months after her disappearance. Vitória arrived in the UK on March 1. and began staying at the home of a university lecturer in Southend,…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (383+ words) A SIX-year-old girl died in a car crash while travelling in a vehicle which was clipped by a lorry changing lanes on the A12, an inquest has heard. Rubie Clarke was in the front seat of a Toyota which then veered…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (222+ words) A MAN who was reported to the police for poor driving later refused to provide a drug sample, then tried to claim he was never behind the wheel of the car. Lewis Geen, 38, was in Martlesham, near Ipswich, when a…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (329+ words) EastEnders actor Shane Richie has pleaded not guilty to a charge of drink-driving and faces a trial next year after appearing at court in Colchester. The 62-year-old, best known for playing Alfie Moon in the long-running soap, appeared by video-link…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (274+ words) EastEnders actor Shane Richie has pleaded not guilty to a charge of drink-driving and faces a trial next year. The 62-year-old, best known for playing Alfie Moon in the long-running soap, appeared by video-link before Colchester Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (391+ words) A DEFENDANT accused of conspiring to blackmail a man out of £500,000 is alleged to have sent masked men to his address who threatened to chop off his fingers if he didn’t pay. Lucas Pereria, 24, is accused of working together with…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (80+ words) A road that is used as a rat run by commuters has been closed for urgent works. Boxted Road, on the outskirts of Colchester, has been shut by Essex Highways to allow resurfacing to take place. A short diversion route…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (698+ words) A list of explosives made by triple killer Valdo Calocane was not disclosed by Nottinghamshire Police until more than three years after the paranoid schizophrenic went on a deadly rampage. The former mechanical engineering student also searched online for large…...