FOOTBALL: Southend United have confirmed that their matchday admission prices for the remainder of the season will not be affected by the rise in VAT. VAT is levied on the cost of admission to football matches and like many other goods, products and
NON LEAGUE: THE list of non-league postponements on the Saturday before Christmas were the worst for 40 years, a football league chairman has discovered. Essex Senior League chairman Robert Errington, in his weekly league news letter, said: “There is
PREMIER LEAGUE: SCOTT PARKER has warned his former side Newcastle they face a revitalised West Ham outfit tonight (Wednesday) at St James’ Park. The former Newcastle skipper, who left the Magpies in 2007, admits the Hammers were in disarray when the
A COUPLE marrying in Bulphan on the same day as Prince William and Kate MIddleton say the royal couple are “going to steal their limelight”. Pam Young and Chris Davis chose the Ye Olde Plough House in Brentwood Road for the venue because “it holds special
THE Thurrock Re-Use Project is calling on people to volunteer and become trustees of the charity. The charity is moving into its fourth year and its four main aims are to stop reusable items going to waste unnecessarily, putting these items back into
RYMAN PREMIER: TWO GOALS in four second half minutes proved the difference as Aveley slipped to defeat at home to high-flying Bury Town. Things started brightly for the Millers. The return of Orlando Smith on the wing for the home side, looked to be
ATHLETICS: THIS Saturday will see the best runners in the county do battle at the Essex cross-country championships. This year’s event, hosted by Southend AC, will be held at Hadleigh Country Park, the venue for the 2012 Olympic Games mountain biking
CRICKET: Essex enforcer Ryan ten Doeschate is planning on becoming Tasmania’s secret weapon in Australia’s domestic Twenty20 campaign. And the all-rounder started in style against Western Australia by taking two wickets for three runs in a single over
SNOOKER: Ali Carter is set to face Peter Ebdon in the first round of snooker’s Masters. The world number seven, who grew up in Tiptree, will do battle with his good friend on Sunday night (starting at 7pm). Colchester-born Carter started this season
LEAGUE TWO: Struggling Barnet have sacked manager Mark Stimson. The Bees crashed to a 2-1 home defeat against Aldershot on Saturday. Former Grays Athletic manager Stimson, who only took over at Underhill in June following his departure from Gillingham
EAST Thurrock United cemented their place at the top of the table with a comfortable victory over basement boys Waltham Forest. Forest – still reeling from the departure of manager Tony Mercer over the festive period – were put on the back foot from
