Garden Bridge tree team reaches halfway mark

The Garden Bridge planting team is well on the way to selecting the trees needed for the project, with 144 of the 270 trees tagged in two European nurseries.

ricbrown3193 published Essex Police and Crime Commissioner's £5-a-year tax...

A council tax increase of around 10 pence a week, which will allow Essex Police force to retain 90 Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs), has been approved.A meeting of the Police and Crime Panel meeting on Friday (January 29), ratified the proposals, just months after it had been planned to see the number of PCSOs in Essex cut to just 60, down from the 250 currently in operation.Nick Alston, Police and Crime Commissioner for Essex, said: "I am delighted that the Police and Crime Panel...