Saturday's non-league footballpublished at 12:32 British Summer Time 9 September 2016
Listen to live BBC radio commentary from Saturday's action in the National League and National League North.
Read MoreSaturday's non-league footballpublished at 12:32 British Summer Time 9 September 2016
Vast majority are paying Dart Charge, says Highways Agencypublished at 11:57 British Summer Time 9 September 2016
Nic Rigby
BBC NewsWe've been following the news that 3.5 million fines have been issued to drivers on the Dartford Crossing, linking Essex to Kent, since toll booths were removed and the Dart Charge cashless system brought in.
Image source, Adrian Cable/GeographThe BBC investigation also found nearly a quarter of drivers of foreign-registered vehicles were not paying their fines.
Natalie Chapman, from the Freight Transport Association, external, said non-payers should be chased up whether in the UK or overseas. She said: "If we don't do that then we're sending the wrong message."
A Highways England spokesman said: "The vast majority of drivers are paying their Dart Charge correctly - more than 93% overall.
"Since it was introduced more than £150m has been collected from Dart Charge, money that is being ploughed back into UK transport.
"We enforce payment of Dart Charge here and abroad and are recovering those charges every day."
It said the Dart Charge had cut northbound crossing times by six minutes and southbound crossings by more than seven minutes.
Sentencing due for driver who caused life-changing injuries to footballerpublished at 11:39 British Summer Time 9 September 2016
A man who admitted causing a crash that resulted in a footballer having both legs amputated, is being sentenced today at Cambridge Crown Court.
Jan Adamec, 40, drove into Shaun Whiter (pictured left) and Joey Abbs (pictured right) as they changed a flat tyre in Newmarket, Suffolk, on 1 July.
Mr Whiter, who worked as an estate agent in Stansted, Essex, was due to begin training with Newmarket Town FC and had both his legs amputated.
Mr Abbs sustained a serious leg injury.
Adamec, of Shetland Road, Haverhill, has admitted two counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
Millions of fines issued at Dartford Crossing after toll booths removedpublished at 11:04 British Summer Time 9 September 2016
Nic Rigby
BBC NewsNearly 3.5 million fines have been issued to drivers for not paying the Dartford Crossing charge since toll booths were removed, the BBC has found.
Image source, Simon Leatherdale/GeographThe Dart Charge cashless payment system replaced toll booths on the Kent side of the bridge which links the county with Essex.
Over the past two years, more than 500,000 fines issued to UK-based drivers have been unpaid, a Freedom of Information request to Highways England showed.
This year alone, 250,752 fines to UK drivers have gone unpaid.
Highways England said enforcement action was continuing in the vast majority of cases, but the BBC found examples where it had not enforced the fine for the first offence.
More than 500,000 Dartford Crossing fines go unpaidpublished at 10:39 British Summer Time 9 September 2016
More than 500,000 fines issued to British drivers using the Dartford Crossing haven't been paid.
A BBC investigation also also found nearly a quarter of drivers of foreign-registered vehicles aren't paying on time. We'll be bringing you more on this shortly.
Southend councillor 'shocked' by ex-magistrate's 'fall from grace'published at 09:15 British Summer Time 9 September 2016
Katy Lewis
BBC Local LiveA senior Southend councillor has said he's shocked by the case of a former Essex magistrate, choirmaster and teacher who was convicted of multiple child sex offences yesterday.
Retired deputy head Vincent Copeland, 61, from Leigh-on-Sea, was given a three-year community order at Ipswich Crown Court yesterday after he admitted making images of child sexual abuse.
He was also a member of Southend Borough Council's children and lifelong learning scrutiny committee and Conservative councillor James Countenay, who is responsible for education in the borough, said the "whole thing is just shocking".
He added: "Vincent Copeland was a high profile and well-respected figure in the community and this is obviously a very public fall from grace."
Woman charged over Theydon Bois multi-vehicle crashpublished at 09:08 British Summer Time 9 September 2016
Katy Lewis
BBC Local LiveA woman has been charged with several driving offences following a serious crash on the Essex stretch of the M11 near Theydon Bois in the early hours of 19 June.
The 31-year-old has been charged with drink driving, driving without insurance and careless driving.
She was driving a silver Honda Civic which was involved in a collision with a black Toyota Prius at about 00.55. The Prius then collided with the central reservation and the Honda collided with a black Toyota Verso, which also went into the central reservation. Two other vehicles were also involved.
A passenger in the Verso received serious neck injuries.
The accused, who's from Bishop's Stortford, is due to appear at Chelmsford Magistrates' Court in October.
Chelmsford's Crystal Lane wins silver at Paralympicspublished at 08:56 British Summer Time 9 September 2016
BBC SportEssex paralympian Crystal Lane has been celebrating after winning a silver medal at the Rio Games.
The 30-year-old, from Chelmsford, came second in the women's C5 individual pursuit cycling.
Image source, Getty ImagesDame Sarah Storey won gold - her twelfth such medal, which makes her Britain's most successful female at the Paralympics.
Crossbow-shot goose making 'good recovery'published at 08:36 British Summer Time 9 September 2016
Katy Lewis
BBC Local LiveYesterday we told you about a goose in Essex that had been shot with a crossbow bolt that missed its spine by millimetres. It was not known whether it would survive.
Image source, RSPCAWell, an RSPCA inspector has said the goose, which was injured in Rochford, near Southend, is now making a "good recovery" at the South Essex Wildlife Hospital.
Insp Marie Hammerton said she hoped the goose would make a full recovery and be released back into the wild.
She said: "He is doing quite well. I think it was a bit touch and go as to whether or not he would survive because of where the bolt had been so close to his spine but it looks like he's doing OK."
Today's weather: Sunny spells developingpublished at 08:10 British Summer Time 9 September 2016
It will be a mostly cloudy start, but many should see some warm sunny spells developing through the day.
There will be an increasingly fresh south-westerly breeze and as a result it'll feel less humid than recent days with a maximum temperature of 22C (72F).
Welcome back to live updates from Essexpublished at 08:00
Katy Lewis
BBC Local LiveGood morning and welcome back to regular live updates of the latest news, sport, weather and travel for Essex.
Some good news this morning: the goose shot with a crossbow that we told you about yesterday, looks to be making a good recovery - but first we'll have a full weather forecast for the county.
Our live coverage across the daypublished at 18:04 British Summer Time 8 September 2016
Nic Rigby
BBC NewsThat's it from the team. We will be back from 08:00 tomorrow, but any breaking stories overnight will appear here. We'll leave you with a quick summary of our main news stories so far:
- Quinlan Pringle death: Family was about to head home when accident happened
- Ex-magistrate from Essex sentenced over indecent images
- Former Home Secretary Lord Blunkett concerned over Harlow 'friction'
- Colchester MP's first Britain's Got Talent audition goes 'pretty well'
We'll leave you with a photograph taken 52 years ago today of two boys on the beach in Southend. Have a good evening.
Image source, Getty ImagesWeather: A sunny evening but temperatures will fallpublished at 17:20 British Summer Time 8 September 2016
Julie Reinger
BBC Look East weatherA sunny evening will lead to a dry night but temperatures expected to fall.
A light to moderate south-westerly breeze should prevent any mist and fog forming.
Minimum temperature: 14C (57F).
Tomorrow will be a day of sunny spells and scattered showers but it will be breezy.
Maximum temperature: 23C (73F).
More details from BBC Weather.
Budget airline to set up base at Stansted Airportpublished at 17:18 British Summer Time 8 September 2016
Nic Rigby
BBC NewsBudget airline Jet2.com is setting up a base at Stansted Airport.
Image source, PAIt's the first time that the firm will be operating in the south-east. Flights are due to start from the north Essex terminal next Spring.
Steve Heapy, chief executive of Jet2.com, said: "As part of our exciting and continued growth plans, we are delighted to announce that we will be operating from our ninth UK base, London Stansted Airport, as of spring 2017.
"We believe that London Stansted has great potential for our holiday business, serving the populations of North and East London, and the East of England."
A spokeswoman for the firm was unable to say how many flights or planes would be operating out of Stansted.
Tributes paid to 'much-loved' Essex teenager killed in road accidentpublished at 17:03 British Summer Time 8 September 2016
The family of an 18-year-old man who died following a road accident on the A12 at Chelmsford has paid tribute to a "much-loved son... and brother" with a "cheeky smile".
Image source, Essex PoliceJoshua Saunders, of Hullbridge Road, South Woodham Ferrers, died in hospital after he was struck by a van on the A414 at Sandon on 25 August.
His family said today: "Joshua was the much-loved son of Roger and Diane, and brother to Luke, Lauren and Jamie-Lee."He will be greatly missed by all that knew and loved him. He was taken from us far too early.
"Josh was very outgoing, smart, full of quirky one-liners and had a cheeky smile. He will be well and truly missed.”
Drugs worth £180,000 seized in Shoeburyness searchpublished at 16:54 British Summer Time 8 September 2016
Two people have been charged after Essex Police seized drugs which had a street value of £180,000 during a house search in Shoeburyness, near Southend.
More than 2kg (4lbs) kilos of cocaine and 71g (2,5oz) of cannabis were discovered. Officers said a "significant amount of cash" was also found.
'Black box' for buildings developed in Chelmsfordpublished at 16:24 British Summer Time 8 September 2016
Nic Rigby
BBC NewsScientists in Essex have developed a type of "black box" for buildings to assess them following earthquakes, explosions and fires.
Image source, Anglia Ruskin UniversityThe sensors can tell emergency services whether a building is safe to enter immediately after an incident, and then provide a status report on the future viability of the building once the rescue phase is over.
The device was developed by a team led by Prof Hassan Shirvani and the Engineering Analysis Simulation and Tribology Research Group, external at Anglia Ruskin University in Chelmsford.
Image source, Anglia Ruskin UniversityThe sensors have been tested at the Swedish Defence Research Agency with the controlled explosion of a building at a test site.
"The system is equivalent to a black box recorder for a building,” explained Prof Shirvani, external.
“In the same way that an aircraft’s black box can survive a crash, this system is being designed to withstand the most extreme conditions following a disaster or terrorist attack and continue transmitting data.”
Image source, Anglia Ruskin UniversityOne from the vaults: All Blacks arrive at Tilbury docks in 1935published at 15:52 British Summer Time 8 September 2016
Nic Rigby
BBC NewsEighty-one years ago this month, the All Blacks rugby team from New Zealand arrived at Tilbury docks.
Image source, Getty ImagesThey disembarked from the RMS Rangtiki and were met by Sir James Parr, the High Commissioner for New Zealand, and the British press.
Kent defeat leaves Essex close to titlepublished at 15:23 British Summer Time 8 September 2016
Kent's home defeat by Northants leaves Division Two leaders Essex needing just six points to be sure of promotion.
Read MoreRemember this? Essex joins the space racepublished at 15:10 British Summer Time 8 September 2016
Nic Rigby
BBC NewsEssex got into the space race 52 years ago this month. The photograph shows radio amateur Peter Blair and his wife Eileen, of Chaplin Close, Chelmsford, and their homemade dish aerial.
Image source, Getty ImagesThey used it to bounce a morse code signal off the Moon to the US Government's giant radio telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, in September 1964.
Eileen turns the aerial, which cost £5 to build by hand.
