A 16-year-old girl, Kelsi-Lu Flowers from Colchester is missing, with Essex Police looking to find her as soon as possible.

Jess Phillips has said MPs can jump on the bandwagon of combating grooming gangs and child sexual exploitation – but “it is action that is needed”.

Shane Hadderton, 36, Marvin Usher, 33, and Deividas Fiodorovas, 36, were all sentenced on Thursday at Chelmsford Crown Court.

A man has been jailed for five years after pleading guilty to drugs and driving offences across Essex and Suffolk.