Author Ria

Now with the long Easter weekend unfortunately over, I feel it's time to start planning the Summer... and what better way to begin than with a whole new festival. 2015 marks the first ever year of the...

A big Thank You to all the local photographers who submitted their photos to us for the competition! Voting has started! Click on your favourite photos in each of the categories below, and Like the photo on...

This is separate to the Southend photography competition that we are hosting this month! Voting will commence on that this Friday! Love Southend's favourite pick of Instagrams this month in no particular...

So we're currently reviewing submissions to our Southend photography competition at the moment and, much to our delight, received this email from Claire Arkwright - a teacher at Lancaster School in...

Mangetout re-opened last Friday night, having upgraded from their tiny restaurant that would always look so busy and cramped from the outside. (Which admittedly is a testament to their overwhelming success....

The competition is now closed! Thanks to everyone for their entries! Click here to vote for your favourite photos! You may or may not have noticed that our Things To Do pages have had a little bit of a...

Love Southend are very happy EXCITED to announce that we are finalists in the Essex Digital Awards 2015! We are actually finalists in two different awards categories: Blog - Entertainment and Website:...

I first found out about Active Women at the EDEN Conference 2015, where they had a promotional stand in the foyer. Active Women is an initiative funded by Sport England Activation Fund, encouraging women over...

Love Southend's favourite pick of Instagrams this month in no particular order: 1 Warm looking but freeeezing! Gorgeous skies and cloud porn in this photograph of the seafront. The colours are...

To celebrate Adventure Island's brand new indoor play centre, we've come up with a cracking wordsearch containing all of Adventure Island's rides (including their new 2015 ones!). Prepare to be challenged! I'm...