Even its more paranoid residents would struggle to describe this place as a hotbed of crime. It is six months since anyone reported a stolen bicycle and, according to official figures, the number of ...

Battalions of Shopriders and Freeriders zip over the level crossing at Frinton-on-Sea, tearing down leafy avenues to park rakishly by lines of Edwardian beach huts. "We've got hundreds and hundreds of ...

Subway has announced three new positions at an unopened unit at the Triangle Shopping Centre, in Rochford Way.

No pier? No kiss-me-quick? No ice-cream? No fortune tellers? No whelk stalls? It's not for the likes of me What's going for it? Like Bognor Regis or Tunbridge Wells, Frinton is one of those towns that ...

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Second home owners in one of Britain's snootiest resorts will have to pay up to double their council tax next year in a bid to help locals get on the property ladder. Amid growing controversy about ...

This year, Frinton Summer Theatre celebrates its 80th anniversary. Producer Clive Brill and director Ben Stock tell Anna James why the venue, which has launched stars including Vanessa Redgrave and ...

Edward Max's production of The Importance of Being Earnest for the 75th anniversary season at Frinton's Summer Theatre is based on the one he devised for Contexture in Bishop's Stortford last autumn.

When is a British comedy legend not a British comedy legend? The answer, as far as the case of Freddie Frinton is concerned, is when you are British and a comic legend in most places except Britain.

Late afternoon on the Frinton-on-Sea waterfront and dog walkers huddle deep into their anoraks while a few kite-surfers wheel across the slate-grey ocean. All is calm in this genteel outpost of Essex, ...