John Spence, of Essex County Council, says he hopes the disease had been "nipped in the bud". "It is a small outbreak, sadly in a bird sanctuary," said Mr Spence, the council's cabinet member ...

A former model has been refused a licence for exotic animals after taking a meerkat and an owl to a pub. Jodie Marsh, who owns Fripps Farm in Lindsell, Essex, applied for a dangerous wild animals ...

Kate Arthur, restoration biologist for the Essex Region Conservation Authority, looks at a newly planted oak seeding at the Jack Minor Migratory Bird Sanctuary in Kingsville on Wednesday, May 22 ...