It would have been easy for Ruben Carril to “turn his face to the wall” when he lost his leg in a motorcycle accident five years ago. For Ruben though it was the age old adage of “get busy living or get busy dying”.
On a very good batting track at Southchurch Park, Southend won the toss and elected to bat. Stanford’s new ball pair of Andrew Love (3/34) and the unlucky Greg Cohen (0/34) caused the Southend batsman all kinds of problems as Stanford started to dominate the game.
In the Essex Sunday League match against Benfleet on 30th May, Paul Bennett struck an outstanding 175 not out (20 fours and 5 sixes) from just 104 balls, to record the club’s third highest ever individual score.
You could see the main tent from twenty miles away on the M25 and the sounds boomed across the borough. The first ever Dance Crusade at Orsett Showground was a resounding success as clubbers from across the South East gathered together to dance to some of the top DJ’s in the country.
THURROCK Swimming Club were recently crowned Essex County Swimming Champions for the fourth year in succession and sixth time in seven years. This latest county success was somewhat sweeter than previous years, as this was the first victory under the exciting new regime and swimming programme of new Head Coach Lisa Bates.
ONE of the hardest things four developing athletes is to try and compete with athletes a year or three older than you.
However, the young charges at Thurrock Harriers put themselves up against much older athletes at the National Under 20’s League match at Ware, H
May 27th was a full moon & if you look closely enough you may have see some of Thurrocks Witches flying passed on their broom sticks. Well actually I’m not really serious about the flying on brooms part, but I am very serious about Thurrock and infact all over England there being real witches & mediums in our midst. Scared!
THERE are many signs in Thurrock that education at a senior level has improved by light years over the last few years. There is a plethora of examples as well. Perhaps one of the great examples is the invitation that Grays school’s Maths Department gave to Year 7 parents to come in on a thursday evening and explore the world of maths as well as help their child’s education.
WE MET Gary a couple of months ago after he had a display of his poems at the Thameside Theatre. We then asked Gary if he would be happy to re-enact a poem once a month in a series of locations.
THE THURROCK Courts Players have just completed a three night run of the play Waiting For Godfrey. The performance has been a dry run for the group’s appearance at the Thurrock Drama Festival where they hope to win a place in the British Drama Festival.
“It appears that as the season has progressed the changing facilities at the FBASG have deteriorated to such an extent that the league have refused to allow us to play EOL matches there again next season .
IF YOU go down to Belhus Woods this weekend, you may well find hundreds of american civil war enthusiasts re-enacting the Battle of Gettysburg and other key parts of the war.
The boy ran into the road and was in collision with a silver Toyota 4X4, driven by a local woman. The boy was taken to Basildon hospital by ambulance and following scans he has no serious injuries, but has cuts and bruising and is currently on a ward. The driver was shocked.
Lakeside’s two best performers were Adam Shields (paid fourteen points) and Jonas Davidsson (thirteen points) and both featured in some of the best action of the evening, primarily when the lively Rory Schlein was in opposition. The new Peterborough signing was excellent value and passed Davidsson in heat three, inflicting the only defeat of the night on the Swede.
The directly elected Mayor option would see a borough-wide election to select an individual as Mayor, who would then appoint their own Cabinet of up to nine councillors, including a deputy.
All those years as Gordon Brown’s “bag-man” are rewarded as former Basildon South and East Thurrock MP Angela is elevated to the House of Lords.
Like all of Rosh Tikvah’s celebrations, Shavuot was a time for the community to come together and enjoy each others’ company. As we are a new community, our traditions are not yet set. However, it is fair to say that one tradition which is already firmly in place, is that of enthusiasm and a sense of pride in what we have achieved so far.
The Hed Kandi Arena brings a touch of glamour to Essex, with leading club DJs, live musicians, and the kind of awe-inspiring production that has made Hed Kandi the global leader in dance music.
Chief Insp Moor said his team are working hard to combat a crime which has a devastating effect on families across the district. He added: “In my opinion, burglary is one of the most traumatic crimes for someone to go through. To have someone intrude your home and take your possessions can have a lasting impact on the whole family.
We need to keep the momentum going on Friday against the new look Peterborough team. They are looking to gain one of the four Play Off places come the end of the season and we are determined to maintain our second place in the table. The Panthers Management appear to have made a good choice for their guest as Scott Nicholls usually goes well around our Raceway.
The Stanford-le-Hope band teamed up with Linford sound engineer Andy Spurrell to record the track, Geeza, which will go on sale on iTunes next month.
All the money raised from sales of the track will be donated to the Meningitis Trust, in honour of Stanford-le-Hope man and More Tea Vicar fan Andrew Burroughs.
Such massive amounts of backdated business rates came as a major shock to the firms involved and badly affected their cash flow so Essex FSB is very pleased that the new Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Eric Pickles, has acted rapidly to freeze demands for payments and is now looking at ways of axing the backdated rates bills completely.
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Despite a post-mortem, the identity of the man had not been released although yourthurrock has learned that the man was in receipt of community care by Thurrock Council.
