Eight ducklings were rescued after a passer-by heard "quacking" coming from a drain. Firefighters from Essex County Fire and ...

Frinton firefighters had a slightly different mission this morning as they rescued eight ducklings from a drain and returned them to their mother.

A lifeboat service in Essex has lost four of its crew after a volunteer manager was asked to quit by the RNLI over a "code of conduct" breach. An internal review found Walton and Frinton lifeboat ...

Stewart Oxley, who was Lifeboat Operations Manager at Walton and Frinton RNLI, has been a vocal critic of the institution’s decision to “downgrade” the station’s all-weather lifeboat to ...

Frinton station manager Nick Singleton said: “This was a difficult fire to tackle, but our firefighters worked really hard to put it out as quickly as they could.

The present lifeboat is 16m (52ft) long and can go out in any weather. It was being replaced by a five-metre (16ft) inflatable dinghy. "To think, when all other stations are busy, the D-class is ...