A man has been jailed for 19 months after taking police on a high-speed pursuit through residential streets and a building site in Southend. T-Jay Shepherd was the driver of a Vauxhall Astra when it ...

Today in History for July 23: In 1621, the Virginia colony was granted the New World's first written constitution.

A woman who admitted her involvement in a £1m tobacco factory tax scam has been spared a prison sentence. Wiktoria Bejma ...

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