Tenants at a block of 35 new council flats said they were delighted to have been able to move in before Christmas, with one ...

A brand new Asian street food restaurant has opened in Basildon, with the first 100 guests receiving a free bowl of Katsu curry.

Basildon, a town about 40km to the east of London, was supposed to be a Utopia. In 1948 Lewis Silkin, the then minister for town-and-country planning, proclaimed that “Basildon will become a city ...

Basildon has been named just outside the top ten most expensive places in the UK for first-time buyers, according to new figures. The national study has highlighted the growing difficulty of getting ...

The word “Basildon” does little to conjure thoughts of paradise. For those who know it as a town in Essex, England, this association could only seem ridiculous. Fifty years ago, however, Basildon—a ...

The team at a Basildon veterinary referral hospital have celebrated the state-of-the-art building’s full reopening after a fire at a neighbouring site forced its closure last year. Southfields ...

It might lack the glamour, the glitz, the studios and the stars. But the Essex town of Basildon is, in its own small way, living the Hollywood dream. In a reference to the sign which overlooks the ...

Craig Rimmer said the Planning Inspectorate's approval of the tower blocks showed they "don't quite understand this post-war new town" A Conservative councillor has described plans for a major housing ...

An Essex GP told the BBC that patients could recover from heart attacks in as little as four weeks, but that at least six ...

Basildon’s “bin-dependence day” has arrived with new weekly black bin collections and changes to the recycling collections beginning this week across the borough. Basildon Council brought in the ...

Basildon has launched its first Heritage Trail to coincide with the 60th anniversary of its new town. We speak to Vin Harrop, Director of the 'Our Basildon' project, about what you can expect on the ...

Basildon's coronavirus case rate is the 16th highest in England and has doubled during lockdown. The rise in Covid-19 cases in part of Essex was a "really grave situation", a council leader said. The ...