Southend RNLI volunteers stepped in rescue a yacht that was adrift in choppy waters and heading on a collision course with ...

The captain of a fishing boat which ploughed into Southend Pier has been fined £3,000 by magistrates. On 17th February 2012 the vessel the Paul Patrick, captained by John William Smith ...

Departing Southend, the boat trip will take 45 minutes to reach the pier in Kent ... will be given four hours ashore to explore this Kent fishing village, have a spot of lunch and take a wander.

Feast your eyes on these long-lost photos of Southend Pier. They have been resurrected ... the estuary froze a mile out to sea, with fishing boats unable to leave their mooring places.

A Southend Borough Council spokesman ... Bowling alley and other buildings destroyed by fire February 2012: Fishing boat hits section of the pier ...

A POPULAR boat trip operator is gearing up for a summer full of sightseeing adventures as its tours from Southend Pier return ... historic forts and a quaint fishing village.

An Essex pleasure pier which was forced to close after being struck by a fishing vessel is to partially reopen. Southend Pier was hit by the local fishing trawler on 17 February, damaging a ...

Southend Pier is expected to remain closed to the public until the end of March after a fishing vessel crashed into it last week. A local fishing trawler hit a section of the Essex attraction on ...

boat crashes and two world wars. A condition-survey of the pier last year confirmed the structure was safe to build on. Councillor Ann Holland described the pier as "the jewel in Southend's crown ...

Today marks 40 years since the world’s longest pier – Southend-on-Sea’s – was gutted ... Jerome K Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat was the year’s must-read novel, and the Savoy Hotel ...