Essex News & Investigations

SPONSORED FEATURE An Essex landowner who has spent three decades helping nature reclaim parts of his family estate has told why he is waging war against the litter that is blighting the county. Duncan Clark, owner of Braxted Park Estate (above), is a self-styled “anti-litter champion” after becoming increasingly frustrated by the amount of rubbish being discarded across the Essex countryside and the damage it causes to the landscape and wildlife. Braxted Park is known as a lu

POLICE investigating a major suspected organised crime group believed to be involved in financial crime and violence arrested 17 people following dawn raids at 24 properties in London and four other counties. Met Police officers were seen in the grounds of the Essex home of wealthy businessman David Hunt, 65, on Tuesday, September 29 2026 as officers carried out a series of raids in connection with an organised crime probe across London and the Home Counties. A Met Police van

A fourth man has been charged following a Met Police operation on Tuesday morning targeting a major suspected organised crime group. Andreas Nicolas, 64 (10.11.61) of Duxford, Cambridgeshire was charged overnight with possession of a firearm (a revolver) and possession of a weapon to discharge a noxious thing, namely electricity, both contrary to Section 5 of the Firearms Act 1968. The company director was remanded in custody and will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court

THREE men have been charged with unrelated offences after 18 people were arrested yesterday during raids across London and the Home Counties targeting a suspected major organised crime group. Charles Charalambous, 56 (24.11.69) of Claremont Road, Cockfosters, will appear in court this morning following the stabbing of a police officer on Tuesday. He was charged overnight with wounding with intent to cause GBH to resist arrest. He was remanded in custody to appear at Westminst

A NAKED man seen outside Chelmsford College was not a flasher and was suffering a mental health crisis, police have confirmed. Concerns were raised on local Facebook groups after a man was seen to undress near the college while it was open on Tuesday, September 15 2026. One posted: "Does anyone know anything about a man walking around Chelmsford past the college earlier today naked? "I'm just concerned if he was okay as it obviously doesn't happen everyday." Another wrote: "M

UTTLESFORD Council has vowed to hold an emergency meeting over what to do about the continued occupation of the unauthorised traveller site at Willows Green, protesting villagers have said. Last night more than 100 residents of the picturesque hamlet, near Felstead, Essex, staged a protest outside the council offices in Saffron Walden after losing their patience with the authority over its apparent unwillingness to return to court to seek compliance with a High Court injuncti

A MAN has tragically died after suffering burns inside an Ilford home. Police, paramedics and the London Air Ambulance were called to the Milton Crescent area of Ilford after there were reports a person had been injured at a property. One resident said: "You could see someone being treated. Police also sealed the property off and later on scenes of crime officers turned up to carry out an investigation." A Met Police spokesperson said: "At around 1:45pm on Wednesday, 2 Septem

RESIDENTS who have lost faith in the alleged inaction from a council that has been accused of failing to take action against an illegal traveller site have said they will stage a peaceful protest outside its offices. The planned protest follows four months of growing anger in the hamlet of Willows Green, near Felstead, Essex, over what residents describe as a "gross failure" to take effective enforcement action against the unauthorised development of agricultural land north o

A COUNCIL has caused fury among residents by collecting bin bags from travellers who illegally racked up a site over a bank holiday weekend and are now living there in breach of a High Court injunction. Dumbstruck residents of the Willows Green site near the historic village of Felstead in Essex have seen council refuse trucks collecting household waste left outside the site on Tuesdays when they do the normal collections in the hamlet. The site was developed over the first M

POLICE have appealed for information about an attack in which three men were injured near the popular Oak House bar in Maldon. One man was reportedly knocked to the ground and had to be treated on the floor close to the venue, according to onlookers who posted on a local Facebook group. Revellers at the bar continued to drink as paramedics and police attended the scene, it was said. An East of England Ambulance Service spokesperson said: “We were called just before 11.45pm on