On today’s feature, Margaret Mills took us back to the 19th April 1839 with the story of striking bricklayers, read more

Well not quite but we heard reports today of two incidents involving the police – admittedly almost 180 years apart! read more

Today we enjoyed news from two supermarket chains. First out of the block comes news of the supermarket that refused to read more

I was joined today by local singer/songwriter, Glenn Godfrey. Now poor Glenn suffered a real setback when, just as his read more

On today’s show we heard about thieves in Germany stealing an entire vineyard. Yes, incredibly using a professional harvesting machine the read more

Margaret Mills returned today with news of rebellion in an Essex village resulting from a drought which lasted for about read more

  I was joined today by my old friend BRIAN HUGHES who when here, usually dispenses all manner of legal read more

No we’re not talking about Sherlock Holmes or anything like that, but on today’s, for me “bonus” show we examined read more

Today we heard the sorry tale of the Shropshire based zoo which has been forced to exhibit plastic penguins. After read more

This week Margaret Mills turned her attention to a hurricane which hit Southend – no not that gave Michael Fish read more

I was joined today by Essex based author, Denis Olasehinde Akinmolasire who has just written his first book – LOVE, WAR read more

On today’s show we heard all about the cat from Bristol who seems to have dropped the idea of bringing read more

The subject of today’s BYGONES feature chosen by Margaret Mills concerned a Maldon woman who went on the rampage around read more

We learnt today about censorship currently being imposed by Iranian State Television. And no it’s nothing as potentially erotic as images read more

The subject Margaret Mills chose to reflect on today, was the cloudburst that affected areas surrounding the village of Tillingham, read more

Do you remember your first day at school? I can’t say that I was much enamoured by my school days read more

  Uncannily almost exactly a year to the day when they last appeared on my show, I was very pleased read more

I was privileged once again to find myself deputising for the wonderful MICHELLE WARD who has thoughtlessly gone on leave. read more

Now yesterday we heard about the man who’s undergone surgery to make him look like something that just rose out read more

The topic chosen today by Margaret Mills concerned a somewhat unconventional woman, known as MARMALADE EMMA, who used to live read more