BRAINTREE TOWN 0 AFC TELFORD UNITED 2 Vanarama Conference Premier It may have been a bumper crowd for Braintree Town, but AFC Telford failed to read the home script as they kept their Vanarama Conference Premier survival hopes alive with a
9:44pm It wasn't the best from Braintree it has to be said. They never really unlocked Telford at the back and the Bucks looked far better than the bottom-placed side that they are.
Generous school pupils handed £250 to a children’s ward from their annual Christmas fundraiser. Ellie James, Jessica Collins and Charly Sopowski from Silver End Primary School visited Broomfield Hospital’s Phoenix Ward last Wednesday to donate
Airmen and soldiers past and present held a sombre memorial service today to mark the 70th anniversary of one of the largest Allied air operations of World War Two. The event at Marks Hall, Coggeshall, was attended by survivors of Operation Varsity
A Witham firm have won a ewe-nique opportunity to install five foot tall sculptures of Shaun the Sheep in London. Piggotts Company Limited, which specialises in installing creative displays, Christmas lights, marquees and banners, have been chosen
Braintree District Museum is hosting a new exhibition from Thursday. Thinking Thread and Octet is by Sarah Impey and Anglia Textile Works. For more information, visit braintreemuseum.co.uk
A Labour Parliamentary candidate has been forced to apologise to Witham’s MP after being accused of trolling her on Twitter. Former teacher and university lecturer John Clarke, who has been chosen by the Labour party to contest the Witham seat
POLICE have renewed their appeal to find an Audi TT stolen from outside a house in Witham. The black Audi TT RS Quattro, index number LB10BZK, was taken after intruders broke into an address in Harebell Drive at about 10.20am on March 17. It was
Witham Town Football Club are celebrating some important funding news that will help it improve its facilities at the Village Glass Stadium. With help from Witham MP Priti Patel, the club have obtained funding that will allow them to secure an
Residents who will be aged 18 or over on May 7 have just four more weeks to make sure they are registered to vote in this year’s national and local elections. Voters will go to the polls to elect Members of Parliament for the Braintree and Witham
A popular family doctor who has served the community for more than four decades will see his final patient next month. Noel Pereira will retire after practising at the Mount Chambers Surgery in Coggeshall Road for 41 years. The 69-year-old
A 57-year-old man who went missing from his home in Finchingfield for a fortnight has been found safe. Michael Bell, 57, had last been seen by his daughter at his home address in Bardfield Road on March 10. Essex Police issued an appeal yesterday
A Grade II listed building could be converted into flats, according to plans submitted to Braintree Council. Three storey Rayne House, in The Street, Rayne, is currently used as office space. The plans submitted by Douglas Emson say alterations
A large pout helped Brian Grundy to take victory as Braintree Sea Angling Club members went to West Mersea on a choppy trip in the first in a series of evening charter boat matches. It was a rough sea that greeted them as the wind had increased
Braintree Town manager Alan Devonshire admits he has been looking beyond his team’s 50-point target for some time – even before his side’s stunning win at Torquay United. Their 5-1 win at Plainmoor was evidence of what Devonshire already knew and
Burglars climbed onto a conservatory to break into a house and steal nearly £4,000-worth of jewellery. They broke through a locked first floor window at a house in Martens Meadow, Braintree, on March 12 between 11am and 11.30pm. The suspects
Witham Town manager Garry Kimble feels the two points that his team dropped last weekend have made tonight’s Ryman League premier division game against Peacehaven and Telscombe a “must-win” one. With the team still sitting in the premier division
