Beth Hooper News Today

A budget as the leaves turned brown was Kenneth Clarke back in 1996. The following year, labours new chancellor, a young chap called gordon brown, delivered a summer budget following his partys landslide election victory. After that, budgets took place in the early spring and have remained there ever since. Until today. Well, just a few minutes ago, the chancellor emerged from number 11 downing street with the special red box containing the budget speech. The red box goes all the way back to gla...

The Cradle of Forestry has been approved by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to complete $2 million in projects to repair and improve aspects of the popular Pisgah National Forest

Southend Council’s licensing sub-committee will meet today to vote on plans for 1581 London Road, Leigh. 

A COUNCILLOR has described her heartbreak as her mother waited 14 hours in an ambulance after a stroke.

FIND Outdoors President and CEO Natalie Britt, who has led the more than 50-year-old nonprofit for the past three-and-a-half years, is stepping down Jan. 31. Britt will be joining Zion

A care home that has seen better days is set to be torn down and replaced.

FIND Outdoors, a local nonprofit and managers of the Cradle of Forestry in Pisgah National Forest, is excited to offer visitors the chance to celebrate “Christmas in July” at the

A “DATED” care home - one of the oldest buildings on the Marine Estate - could be knocked to the ground and replaced in a major revamp. Memory House, on Marine Parade in Leigh, caters for up to 35 residents and dates back to at least 1920. However, with the building no longer up to scratch and “unable to maintain the high standards expected of it’s residents and operators”, plans to demolish the site have been brought forward. A new care home, containing 50 rooms, would replac...

A MEMORIAL bench has been unveiled in Southend’s Priory Park in honour of a well-respected and much-loved Southend historian.

He went to Prittlewell High School while growing up. Councillor Beth Hooper, who had worked with Mr Skinner on Southend history projects, said: “The work that Nick did for so many years in building on the Southend Timeline means that for generations to come, our community will be able to learn about and from the past. “It is so important that we remember his great service to our borough with this bench.” Due to Covid-19 regulations, only a small few were able to Sunday’s ceremon...