Updates for Thursday, 28 January 2016
News, sport, travel and weather updates resume at 08:00 on Friday
BBC Travel
Two lanes are closed, with queuing traffic and long delays on the M25 at the QE2 Bridge clockwise in Lakeside from J31, A1306 (West Thurrock) to J1a, A206 (Swanscombe).
The problems are because of an accident involving a car and a lorry and a spillage of diesel on the road. Congestion is also affecting J29, A127 (Romford).
Charlie Jones
BBC Local Live
An Essex couple say they're upset after being told that they couldn't sit in emergency exit seats on a plane because they're "too old".
Ron and Carol Baron from Benfleet booked a holiday to Egypt in November and were told they could not have the seats which come with extra leg room.
Thomson Holidays, external has since apologised saying it was an error and there is no upper age limit for such areas.
Nick Alliker
BBC Essex
Three incidents of fly-tipping in and around Clacton are believed to be linked, officials at Tendring District Council say.
Image source, Tendring District CouncilDebris has been dumped off Rush Green Road and on the A133 in Clacton and near Martins Farm in St Osyth, over the last few days.
Michael Talbot, who is the council's cabinet member for environment, said: "We would ask anyone who has had some work done at their home or in their garden in the last day or so to contact us if they believe the waste may have come from there."
Thomas Magill
BBC Essex
I'm on my way to the site of a ram-raid which is the seventh one in Essex in the last five months.
The latest incident happened at 02:20 at the Co-op in Hallett Road, Flitch Green, when a Land Rover was driven into the shop and used in an attempt to steal the cash machine.
Police say they don't think anything was stolen before the three male suspects made off in a dark coloured car, possibly a Focus or a Fiesta.
Rob Jelly
BBC Essex
An Essex man says it's "crazy" that it cost him less money to get back from Sheffield by flying via Berlin than by using a train in the UK.
Image source, MoneySavingExpert.comJordon Cox, 18, from Brentwood, Essex, found a one-way train ticket home would cost £47, but he could make an £8 saving by flying and getting the bus.
It took him 12 hours to get home compared with the three-and-a-half hour train journey, but he said the scenery was "10 times better than any train trip would have been".
Richard Smith
BBC Essex
A Latvian man is starting a year-long prison sentence after perpetrating a bomb hoax at Stansted Airport last November.
Image source, UK Law NewsStepans Bereznojs, 31, from Peterborough shouted he was a terrorist and said "I'm going to blow you all up, Allah, Allah".
Chelmsford Crown Court heard he had drunk a large amount of alcohol on his flight home from Riga.
Laura Safe
BBC Essex
A Harwich shop owner says he's reduced crime in his store by 50% by installing a TV screen showing previous shoplifters.
Image source, Wellworth-a-£Laurence Munday, who owns the Wellworth-A-£ shop in Harwich, decided to take action after a charity collection box was stolen last year.The footage is played on a loop and shows all of the people he has caught shoplifting.
Charlie Jones
BBC Local Live
A 23-year-old man is due to appear at Chelmsford Crown Court charged with murdering two people near Stansted.
The bodies of 54-year-old Gillian Phillips and David Oakes, 60, were discovered at a property in Stansted Mountfitchet last July.Brett Rogers, of Bentfield Gardens in Stansted Mountfitchet, has previously denied the offences.
Charlotte Rose
BBC Essex
Two men have been re-arrested on suspicion of murder after a man was found fatally injured near Billericay last August.
Ricci Gallagher, 46, was found injured at a farmhouse (pictured) in Sudbury's Farm Road in Little Burstead, which is owned by Richard Glanville, the ex-chief financial officer of the fashion firm that owned Oasis and Warehouse.
A 60-year-old man from the Billericay area and a 53-year-old man from Basildon have been bailed until next month.
Elizabeth Rizzini
BBC Look East weather
It'll be a chilly start to the day with frost in places. There'll be plenty of sunshine to start with, but the skies will turn increasingly cloudy.
Maximum temperature: 9C (48F).
Nick Alliker
BBC Essex
Charlie Jones
BBC Local Live
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