Radio Essex

Singer Chris Brown has pleaded guilty to affray over a confrontation at a London nightclub in which a man was hit over the head with a bottle.

Sir Salman Rushdie has testified at the terrorism trial of the man convicted of trying to kill him. 

Former River City star Iain Robertson has been jailed for nine years for raping a woman and assaulting two others.

Two teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of the murder of a 17-year-old boy at a park in Luton.

Firefighters suffered minor injuries and three fire engines were destroyed in a "significant" blaze at a large industrial unit in Essex which caused supplies of fertiliser to explode.

Residents are "upset, angry and frustrated" over evacuation orders in a Highlands village and smoke from a nearby wildfire that has been called "apocalyptic".