A “GHOST town” is set to be revived with the opening of a £3.6million Wetherspoons pub. The King of Essex will be built over two floors of a former Poundworld in Basildon, and is expected to ...

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Work on a new £3.6m town centre pub has been scheduled to start in late July. Owned by Wetherspoon, The King of Essex, in East Walk, Basildon, is expected to be one of the biggest pubs in the ...

The pub was later placed on the market and its future remains uncertain, after plans by the EG Group to demolish it and build a petrol station where rejected by Basildon Council. Regularly used ...

A Basildon drinking establishment has been handed a new three-out-of-five food hygiene rating. The Crown Pub and Dining, a ...

REAL ale fans are campaigning to save an Upper Basildon pub after the owners put in a planning application to change its use. The 16th Century Beehive Inn, which is Grade II listed, could be ...