A SHOPPING centre was plunged into darkness following a power outage in Thurrock. The Lakeside Shopping Centre had to be evacuated as a huge blackout sparked chaos across the south of the county. It ...

A popular arts and crafts store is set to open its newest branch at a south Essex retail park. Hobbycraft, the UK’s largest arts and crafts retailer, is opening the new shop based at Lakeside Retail ...

A man has been charged with robbery and attempted robbery after more than £30,000 worth of iPhones were stolen from an Apple store. Avram Stoica, 20, of no fixed abode, allegedly targeted the new ...

Police have issued a dispersal order after a car meeting in Essex. Essex Police said they had received reports of the meet involving 30 to 40 vehicles and spectators around Lakeside, Thurrock on ...

Following the success of its recently opened stores, in the prime retail locations of Bluewater, Lakeside Shopping Centre, King’s Road, High Wycombe and Westfield Stratford, smart sleep and home brand ...

Part of the Lakeside Retail Park will be demolished to create a warehouse and distribution centre, with shops relocated within the complex Part of a shopping retail park will be bulldozed to make way ...

A MILLER and Carter restaurant sunk at a busy shopping centre today, dramatic pictures show. The steak house restaurant is a converted paddle steamer boat but is now leaning stern first in the water.

Currys has signed up to take over the former Marks & Spencer Lifestore building at the Thurrock Lakeside retail park. In doing so, it hopes to reverse a jinx that has confounded rivals for the last ...

Intu has submitted a planning application for a £168 million refurbishment of its Lakeside shopping centre in south Essex. The plans include adding around 40,000sq ft of retail space, which would ...

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Essex Police were called out on Friday night at 8pm after reports that a 15-year-old teenager had gone missing at the Lakeside Shopping Centre in Thurrock. They discovered a body in a lake shortly ...