EVERY burglary, sexual offence and violent crime in Southend in July have been compiled into an interactive map. From Eastwood ... that can often be linked to gangs and county lines, but can ...

Police have been building their investigation against a suspected county lines gang flooding Southend with drugs since January this year ...

“Knife crime and gangs are a blight on our communities. The outrageous behaviour of the groups who visited Southend [on Tuesday] was appalling and it is right the police took the robust ...

A dispersal order has been put in place covering parts of Southend this evening following a brawl in the city centre. Officers were on the scene within one minute of reports of a group involved ...

Simon Ford, from Southend Council, told a Commons committee ... Mr Ford said vulnerable youngsters were being recruited by organised criminal gangs to transport and deal drugs in the Essex seaside ...

Mr Levin, from Dagenham, was stabbed and died at Miss Russell’s home in St Anns Road, Southend, and another man was injured. This was another unnecessary death linked to gang activity in Essex.

This is the dramatic moment a Kent-based county lines drug gang operation was busted during ... but supplied substances in Southend. During an operation between February and August last year ...