Southend-on-Sea City Council

Thousands of illegal cigarettes hidden in shops

Rundown playgrounds will be spruced up with £1m

Council opposes combined authority voting plan

Calls for probe into 10,000 new homes plan

School bus driver suspended after shouting video

Stadium redevelopment a step closer as deal agreed

Seafront celebrates first City Day festival

Seafront motorcycle rally to return after hiatus

Medieval manor house gets £423,000 funding

Council to tackle 'harmful' graffiti across city

Council reveals plan to raise tax by maximum 4.99%

Fines for parents who leave cars running - council

Annual Christmas carols event returning to park

Fossetts Farm housing deal signed off by council

High Street 'fake trees' idea dismissed as a joke

Inspectors praise council children's services

First seafront fireworks planned for New Year's Eve

Thousands of road defects recorded across region

'I want peace for the people of Ukraine'

Essex gets funding boost for improved bus services

Council cuts deficit by dipping into contingency funds

Councillors oppose plan to downgrade neonatal unit

Pier train still out of service after accident