Billericay residents have set up a bar watch scheme to monitor any anti-social behaviour or noise in the high street.

There are plans for a free school in Brentwood. It would be the first in Essex. Show more

Etholle George sits in. On the day of the World's Biggest Coffee Morning for Macmillan, we visit the ones in Brentwood and Runwell. The Grandparents Association in Harlow needs some more volunteers. Show more

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