You need to know your rights to be able to fight for them. Do we know enough about what is...

King Charles has emphasised to COP delegates the urgency of making progress on reducing fossil fuel use. Will they manage...

We’ve written about what people in the EU think of the UK now. It wasn’t very flattering. But what do...

New environment secretary's wife is an Anglian Water executive and he will have to make decisions on any illegal activity

Despite relaxing environmental targets, Rishi Sunak says we’re still aiming for net zero in 2050. But are any local authorities...

We didn’t know the facts about the EU before voting to leave. We need to learn before considering to re-join

Stations are set to lose their ticket offices. In East Anglia most stations are affected. Have your say before 1st...

Some senior Conservative MPs want the UK to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights. What are the implications?

Hard borders box us in and (don’t really seem to) keep others out. Europeans enjoy softer borders and freedom of...

Essex County Council launches Carbon Cutting Essex app to help residents and businesses reduce their carbon footprints

Anglian Water has received a huge fine for a sewage discharge in the North Sea, amounting to "three Olympic-sized swimming...

Political change may be more likely in Essex than other parts of East Anglia, partly due to large numbers of...

The Home Office has won its case (subject to appeal) to house migrants at Wethersfield airbase, despite local opposition

A spiralling shortage of NHS dentists is causing terrible dental health outcomes for adults, and especially for the young

Control of Colchester Council is balanced between three main parties. The May elections could give the town more decisive leadership

During the driest February since 1959, water companies were discharging sewage into rivers? Why?

Britain is gaining a reputation for being litter-strewn. It certainly seems to be getting worse, but help is at hand.

Anglian Water predicts water shortages in the future, and has a plan to alleviate them. But do you agree with...

It is more challenging for women than men to be elected to Parliament, and hardly plain sailing even when they...

The water company pleaded guilty to discharging sewage into the River Great Ouse, receiving its third hefty fine in under...

REUL: Scant time remains to assess which former EU legislation to keep, amend or revoke – and the environment is...

The Essex Shed Network now has at least 30 sheds. We take a look at how the movement started and...

The EA Sustain Festival at Colchester’s Firstsite Gallery on 14 and 15 January acted as a forum for debating many...

After multiple investigations and reports, yet another case of sexual abuse shows nothing has changed in the Metropolitan Police.

The Environmental Audit Committee wants urgent action on energy efficiency programmes - as East Anglia Bylines was saying six months...

A community in Rochford, Essex, has united under a common cause: saving an old oak tree.

We say goodbye to 2022 with some worrying environmental issues hanging in the air.

In January, East Anglia will host EA Sustain: a new kind of festival, promoting both localism and sustainability.

Does this week’s hotly-contested Colchester council by-election tell us how the national political landscape is changing?

London's newest railway line is designed to speed east-west travel from the home counties, across the city.

The water company has been fined £536,000 for a 2018 pollution incident which damaged a river ecosystem.

After 27 COP conferences, we’re still on a path to global heating and higher sea levels. Is COP actually any...

Water companies pay shareholders but rivers are polluted. Confusion reigns over who monitors water quality, and environment laws loosen

Gaia, a popular artwork, comes to Essex to increase awareness of, and engagement with, environmental issues.

Climate change is already happening faster than scientists predicted. But are we acting quickly enough to slow it down?

Campaigners in Essex are sleeping in an oak tree to prevent it from being razed to the ground by a...

At the very time when government wants to be less dependent on food imports, it’s becoming impossible for some farmers...

With the country in crisis and alarm across the political spectrum, we gauge public opinion across the east of England

New Metropolitan Police Commissioner fails to understand the impact of women’s fear of assault.

There’s lots going on in East Anglia for families during the holidays! Many family activities are free.

Just as Shell and Centrica announce enormous profits, some councils are planning ‘warm banks’ to help those who can’t afford...

Child safety experts are angry about further delays to a law which seeks to protect children from harmful pornography

Local MPs are opposing National Grid plans to run 180km of cabling across the region, for failing to present a...

Campaigners react with fury at National Grid's failure to include a subsea route as they plan to in other parts...

Saffron Walden will pilot a project to improve air quality to boost health outcomes and support their climate change strategy

Following the 42 miles of the River Colne is a walk through history, from ancient farmland to high-tech University buildings...

The World Health Organisation recognises air pollution as our worst environmental health risk. 16 June is Clean Air Day: what...

The proposal to build 1,000 new houses on Middlewick Ranges in Colchester has cleared another legal hurdle. Residents want to...

With yet another incident of sexual harassment at Westminster, many will ask if things will ever change.

Round-up of recent local elections. Result reflected the national picture: defeats for the Tories, gains for progressives and Independents.

At the next election, could the tables turn? Could we see British electoral demographics upended with surprising results?

Control of Colchester has flipped between Tories and an alliance of Labour and Lib Dems. Where will national and local...

The council in Southend-on-Sea is politically finely balanced; recent history shows frequent change. Which way will the election go on...

Have higher education options in the EU changed since Brexit? Jenny and Louis describe the benefits and affordability of EU...

The wild swimmers of Manningtree are leading the fight against water companies discharging excessive, untreated sewage into our rivers.

Following a years-long campaign by bereaved families, a public Inquiry has begun to probe why so many mental health patients...

The Chief Officer of Colchester food bank has won the Institute of Directors' Chair's Award: regional Director of the Year.

The immense efforts of school staff during the past two years have largely gone unsung. We owe our teachers gratitude...

Gender equality in politics is coming, but not nearly fast enough! Jenny Rhodes looks at what could encourage more women...

On International Women’s Day we reflect on the slow progress towards equality for women. It feels like two steps forward...