Getting children, and adults, more active is one way to tackle the obesity problems. Essex is becoming fatter, more children are now overweight and obesity rates are increasing.
Get Essex Kids Active in 2012 – Fight Obesity and Improve Health Read More
The University of Essex was founded in 1964. It is one of the UK’s top ten universities for both teaching and research and attracts students from all around the world. The university motto is Thought the harder, heart the keener.
Essex University – Top Class Education in the Heart of Essex Read More
The Only Way Is Essex, the popular TV series showcasing the lives of a group of semi-fictional characters, has turned the quiet town of Brentwood into a new tourist spot. Brentwood is little more than a single high street town with a few bars and fewer clubs to provide any form of a night life.
Brentwood Becomes new Essex Tourist Spot for TOWIE Fans Read More
Greenfields Community Housing are working with Braintree District Council to try to find a solution to the shortage in affordable homes in the area. Greenfields Community Housing wishes to build 8 new affordable homes on the land between Parkfields and Alexandra Road.
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The Olympic mountain bike course that has been built at Hadleigh Farm in Essex has the potential to become a great outdoor activity site after the Olympic Games in 2012. Locals are campaigning to keep the track.
Essex Olympic Mountain Bike Track at Hadleigh Farm Read MoreIf you live in Essex and want to learn how to get fit and lose weight then you are in luck, as Essex has many options available to you. Here we share some of Essex’s best gyms, classes and other sports and fitness related companies and activities. We are always looking for new great places to add.
Health And Fitness In Essex Read More
TOWIE stars Sam, Billie and Lydia Workout DVD is a dance based workout which features Sam, Billie and Lydia who workout to thumping dance tunes with the help of dance instructors and fitness experts Glenn Ball and Deanne Berry.
The Only Way is Essex – The Essexercise Workout Read MoreThis is a great story of how the police can fight crime and help the local community at the same time. Essex Police have loaned some seized cars to student mechanics at the South Essex College in Basildon.
Essex Police Seize Illegal Cars for Mechanics Students to Play With Read MorePiano Perfection – A Live Pianist for any occasion Enhance the atmosphere of your special day with a live Pianist. Piano Perfection specialises in supplying piano players of the highest …
Bands and Entertainers in Essex Read MoreDespite the unexpected good weather that we enjoyed last week, it is the time of the year when we see many people suffering from “flu like illness”. Like every winter …
Flu Jabs in Essex – NHS Launch New Campaign to Encourage people to have Flu Jabs Read More
It seems that Shakespeare, the most famous playwright and poet the world has ever seen, may not have been from Stratford-Upon-Avon after all. The current theory that is emerging us …
Was Shakespeare Really an Essex Boy? Read the Evidence Read More
The Essex travellers at Dale Farm are at the end of the legal battle. The real fight is about to start. Evictions were due to start on August 31st but …
Dale Farm Traveller Evictions – Crays Hill Gypsy Site Read MoreOK, over the years we have reviewed many Essex events but still many people are unsure of what Essex has to offer. To Essex Portal has decided to create a …
The Essex Portal Top 100 Things To Do in Essex Read MoreToys R Us is opening a temporary store in Chelmsford to help boost sales before Christmas. Since losing Woolworths there has not been a major toy shop in town so …
Toys R Us in Chelmsford for Christmas Shopping Read MoreThe new Westfield shopping centre has opened in Stratford. It is the 3rd largest shopping centre in the UK and one of the largest urban shopping centres in Europe. One of …
Westfield in Stratford Opens Read MoreA ‘turf turning’ ceremony took place today, 8 September, at two sites in Westcliff-on Sea which are both set to be transformed into new primary care centres offering a range …
Construction of two Westcliff primary care centres begins Read MoreOne of Hollywood’s top celebrities Brad Pitt is currently filming in the quiet, sleepy village of West Hanningfield, a few miles south of Chelmsford. He is filming a zombie film …
Brad Pitt Is Filming World War Z in West Hanningfield Read MoreGood news for businesses and homes in Uttlesford as a new high speed Internet service has been rolled out this week across the Uttlesford district by Chelmsford based Internet business Buzcom. Buzcom …
Uttlesford Gets High Speed Broadband Internet Services Read More
Alexander Rose Creative, an Essex marketing firm based in Witham, specialise in building brand identities through design and marketing to help businesses communicate their brands effectively to their customers and clients. Today they have …
Marketing Tips to Establish a Strong Corporate Identity Read MoreThe Internet continues to grow rapidly with new opportunities arising from social media all the time. Whether it is Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or Google+, there are always new ways to …
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