PiersMeyler published Man's image released following attempted armed robbery in Stock

Police investigating an attempted robbery have released CCTV images of a man they want to speak to.A man armed with what appeared to be a hand gun entered the Four Vinters shop in Mill Road shortly after 6.20pm on Wednesday November 25.He threatened the shop owner and demanded cash.But he left empty-handed after the victim, who is aged in his 50s, chased him out of the shop and down Swan Lane before losing sight of him.No shots were fired and no-one was injured.Officers were assisted by a police...

chrisdyer published Chelmsford prisoner found with knife made out of plastic cutlery...

An inmate at HMP Chelmsford has been sentenced to four years in jail for possession of drugs and a homemade weapon, which had nine razor blades melted into a plastic knife handle.Mitchell Woods, 21, was caught with the weapon as part of a random cell search on June 20, at Chelmsford prison, after being transferred from HMP Hollesley Bay in Suffolk.He appeared at Chelmsford Magistrates' Court on August 8 and was charged with being in possession of a bladed article as well as assaulting a police...

Fake ambulance drugs smuggler convicted

A Dutch man is found guilty over a £1.6bn drugs smuggling operation involving a fleet of fake ambulances.

Hatton Garden accused 'was buying fish'

The alleged getaway driver in the Hatton Garden raid claims he could not have taken part in the plot because he had been buying fish for Good Friday.

Essex Chronicle published Little Waltham diamond wedding couple say separate TVs is key to...

A COUPLE celebrating 60 years of wedded bliss say having separate rooms for watching soaps and football is the reason behind their happiness.Brenda and Terry Weal have lived in Ash Tree Stud, Main Road, Little Waltham, after moving from Woodford Green in 1975.West Ham fan Terry, 81, a former paramedic, broke his back when a platform lifting a patient into an ambulance fell on him, leaving him in hospital for three months.Doctors feared he may never walk again, but after a remarkable recovery...

Essex Chronicle published Train track trespass teenagers' Facebook picture sparks British...

BRITISH Transport Police are investigating after a Facebook picture showed three teens posing on an Essex railway line in thick fog, writes Tom Bage.The image was taken on a foggy night at Wivenhoe station over the weekend and was posted onto a local Facebook group early on Sunday morningOfficers have spoken to the parents of a 15-year-old girl, two boys aged 16, and a third boy aged 15, who will all be interviewed in due course, but no arrests have been made and inquiries are ongoing.The...