Southchurch Hall in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, is a moated manor house with timbered ceiling and was home to farming families until the 1920s. The £423,105 grant has been provided by the Department ...

More than 30 artists are also planning to transform the city centre when they paint street art throughout the day. Southend-on-Sea's 1.34 mile-long (2km) pleasure pier is the world's longest.