The Hyperlocal Bible: A hyperlocal passage to India
AS YourThurrock approaches its tenth birthday, the country that appears to have embraced IT and thus made our life so much easier is India.
Grenfell Factor: When nobody seems that bothered all over again?
YOU have a story regarding a faulty fire alarm. What if the concerns of the residents do not seem (to you) matched by others?
The Hyperlocal Bible: A small matter of libel
WHAT if someone from the BBC libels your business and claims you made up part of your story? Another day in the world of the hyperlocal!
The Hyperlocal Bible: Invoices: The left hand writes the story…..
AS any self-employed person may tell you, most days, the right hand chases the story, the left hand chases the invoice.
The Hyperlocal Bible: Hello Dolly: Treasuring your long running stories
WE have been covering the Dolly’s Christmas Puds story since 2006. Not only that we gave her a lift into town whilst we interviewed dear Dolly Turner.
The Hyperlocal Bible: Christmas Day: Do we know it’s Christmas time at all?
DO we put a little shift in on Christmas Day or do we keep to the 365 “We never close” pledge?
The Hyperlocal Bible: The pressing issue of print
EVEN after nine years on-line, the question of going into print still occupies our mind.
The Good Doctor Blog: The Gift of Christmas Is About Giving
The Gift of Christmas Is About Giving By Dr Emil Shehadeh CAROL and I have just come back from Rothenberg on the Tauber in Germany, a walled medieval town famous for selling Christmas gifts and decorations throughout the year. The Germans do many things better than we. Of course, it was they who introduced the […]
Letter to Editor: More funding needed for Essex Police
I read with interest that the Essex Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner has admitted he cannot cope with the budget which has been afforded to him by his own Tory government.
The Hyperlocal Bible: People and page views….
WHEN you go from job to job to job and for now (and I stress..for now) you don’t have a story or stories.
The Hyperlocal Bible: Technology has the heights
WHEN you have been running on-line newspapers for a couple of years, you are constantly impressed by technological progress.
The Hyperlocal Bible: Confined to the office
I HAVE been confined to the office since October 16th. Corrective toe surgery if you must know.
The Hyperlocal Bible: Explaining a story to…
ONE of the benefits of running two on-line newspapers is that there is the odd occasion that I can use one to explain something to the readers of the other.
Policing in Thurrock: It cannot go on like this…………..
Opinion Piece A COUPLE of weeks ago, an Essex Police officer and prolific tweeter, began his evening shift in Harlow, telling his 3,000 plus followers that he was the “only deployable police officer in Harlow” for that shift. That will be one police officer for 80,000 people. We will say that again: one police officers […]
Blogspot: The arguments for Universal Credit
THE arguments against Universal Credit seem to be legion. However, we thought we would take this opportunity to show what the creators of the scheme think.
Blogspot: Mr Perrin doesn’t seem to care much for Jackie Doyle-Price
Mr. Perrin’s blog: A Word in Your Ear. WERE the powers that be within the Conservative Government, e.g. the Prime Minister and Jeremy Hunt, being deliberately perverse when they elevated Ms Jackie Doyle-Price to the post of a Junior Minister within the Department of Health, even more so by appointing her as the spokesperson on […]
Blogpost: Unlawful traveller camps: Why “doing a Harlow” may be harder than it looks
ANOTHER week, another flurry of unauthorised encampments around Thurrock.
Blogspot: Council, constituency, country – charting a course for the Labour Party
JUNE 2017 was, for the Labour Party, so near and yet so far. Nationally, we were just 7 Conservative seats away from being able to begin the formation of a government with other parties – yet we were also 64 seats away from being able to form a majority government on our own
Blogspot: Mr Perrin says: “We need to talk about Kevin……”
HOW should UKIP solve the problem of a “free-Wheeler” called Kevin? For a start they need to stop just “talking about Kevin”.
UKIP’s Tim Aker asks: “Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?
Sir, A few weeks ago I pointed out that Theresa May’s Florence Speech meant we would be leaving the EU in name only. This week on LBC she was asked three times if she would vote to Leave the EU if there was a referendum now. Three times she didn’t answer. Thurrock voted 73% to […]
Blogspot: “Labour is on a journey to government”
Blogpost By Gavin Callaghan Leader of Basildon Labour Group THIS week parliament returns for what is supposed to be the most important period of the year. Free from elections around the corner, a recess or a party conference on the horizon, October, November and December is the time when Governments tend to pass legislation and […]
Blogspot: “Thurrock once had four hospitals…..”
By Mick Hall “THURROCK once had four hospitals in the borough, Orsett, Tilbury, South Ockendon and Stifford Clays, despite the population having doubled, if not more since the 1950’s we may now end up with none. Back in July Thurrock Councillors unanimously backed a motion that no changes should take place at Orsett Hospital without […]
The Hyperlocal Bible: Giving Evidence
REPORTERS are always wary of stepping into the story but what about when you have a civic duty…
The Hyperlocal Bible: Following a crime story
FROM when you first break a story until the sentencing.