SOUTHEND-ON-SEA has become an unlikely hotspot for some of the UK’s best-known TV personalities. The Essex town has seen a ...

Luton has gained yet another major airline – Jet2 – and now looks like the most competitive airport in the UK, if not Europe.

But the most dramatic changes are further south in Essex: at Southend-on-Sea. Southend becomes part of the mix only when slots are scarce elsewhere. While it has an excellent three-trains-per-hour ...