Barclays facing $70m US trading fine

US regulators are set to fine UK-based Barclays Bank $70m (£49m) for misleading investors about its US "dark pool" trading operations.

GHMorgan published Pictures: Best Essex January Pixs in monochrome

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DarrylWebber published Best gigs in Chelmsford this week

There are some great gigs happening in Chelmsford this week, featuring everything from a punk poet to a Rolling Stones tribute band, from a trio of Americana acts to some great Essex music talent:Attila the StockbrokerAsylum, Chelmsford, Wednesday, January 27Legendary punk poet Attila The Stockbroker comes to Chelmsford for a special fundraising and awareness gig for The Rucksack Project which helps out homeless people during the winter months. Championed by John Peel in the 1980s and combining...

JoeSturdy published Woman in 80s taken to hospital after crashing into Boreham,...

An elderly woman was taken to hospital after crashing into the barbers in Boreham this morning (Tuesday, January 19). Ambulances and police flocked to the scene on Main Road at the junction with Church Road. Police have cordoned off the building, which has a visible crack in the wall, above where the car appears to have hit. The East of England Ambulance Service sent three ambulances and their Hazardous Area Response Team to the incident at 10.30am. A spokesman said: "There...

GuyBell published Essex man swallowed £40,000 worth of cocaine in British...

A BASILDON man who bombed 311 grams of cocaine in a bid to smuggle £40,000 worth of the drug into Britain has been jailed.Preston Rogers, 23, of no fixed address but previously of Waterville Drive, was intercepted by Border Force officers at Stansted Airport on Tuesday, December 1 last year when he arrived on a flight from Lisbon following a three-day trip.When asked for his boarding pass he also produced an e-ticket showing a trip from Heathrow Airport to Sao Paulo, via Madrid, on 22...

Essex Chronicle published Marylou's Café and Buscall & Flynn's Tearoom host...

DOZENS of people in Chelmsford who faced spending Christmas Day alone spent it together thanks to two of the city's cafes.Marylou's Café and Sandwich Bar, in Byron Road, and Buscall & Flynn's Tearoom and Cakery, in Springfield Road, welcomed in young and old for a free meal.It was the first time Tearoom and Cakery owner Rachel Buscall, 32, had stayed open on December 25, feeding 20 people thanks to £1,130 raised online and food donations from Tesco."I realised you don't...