WHEN you invite an agent into your home to carry out a market appraisal on your property one of the key questions you should be asking them is what is their marketing plan for your home? And how will it benefit you, the homeowner?
Blogpost by Cllr Luke Spillman ‘Killed by my Debt’ is a BBC Three factual drama which tells the story of Jerome Rogers. Jerome, was a motorcycle courier who took his own life in March 2016 after a bailiff seized his motorcycle. It is a story which highlights how the escalating costs of enforcement action by […]
Blogpost By Mick Hall “WELL whatever I may think about Thurrock Independent’s Luke Spillman’s previous party he has certainly put the cat among the pidgeons with his open letter to the group leader of Thurrock Labour Party TLP). He has sensed a hesitancy in the behaviour of the local TLP over the closure of Orsett […]
AS I am sure you are aware, one the best things about my job as an agent is helping Tilbury landlords with their strategic portfolio management. Gone are the days of making money by buying any old Tilbury property to rent out or sell on.
ESSEX Firefighters were called to a flat fire in 13 storey high-rise building shortly before 6pm this evening. The fire was located in a flat on the 7th floor.
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Dear Editor, Did you know that over a fifth (21%) people in the East of England are most scared of spiders? This July, the British Heart Foundation (BHF) is challenging the nation to face their fears and raise money for life saving research into heart and circulatory disease. Every year, heart and circulatory diseases including […]
THURROCK Independents Deputy Leader, Cllr Jack Duffin has managed to secure agreement that the Editors of all the local media will be invited to speak at the upcoming Corporate Overview & Scrutiny Committee on Tuesday 4th September..
I am searching for the family of the late :- Driver Geoffrey John TUFFEE is one of the 371 British Servicemen who died on active service during the four-year Cyprus Emergency April 1 1955 to April 18 1959, and whose name is among those remembered with honour on the British Cyprus Memorial.
Mr Perrin’s blog; A Word in Your Ear. The whinging whining Thurrock Independents Party. THE depleted Thurrock Independents Party (TIP) now led by Cllr Luke Spillman, with much wailing and gnashing of teeth, angrily complain that at the Annual Meeting of Full Council no member of their group was offered the chair of any of […]
DESPITE the reassurances the police provided to Thurrock residents, it is clear for anyone to see that we are facing a law and order crisis in Thurrock.
I would like to take this opportunity to put on record my immense pride of having been elected as the Ward Councillor for Orsett, Horndon & Bulphan and thank each of you who took the time to vote on May 3rd.
Dear Editor. I had the privilege of being elected a Conservative councillor in May 2004 to May 2018. Over the past 14 years, I have obtained a wide variety of experience, sitting and chairing the Health Scrutiny, Licensing Committee and a being long standing member of the planning committee. I then became a cabinet member, […]
THE voters have decided that Thurrock Borough Council will be a “hung” Council. The result being; Conservatives 20 councillors, Labour 17 councillors and Thurrock Independents Party 12 councillors.
I am writing to thank the people of Grays Riverside for re-electing me for a second term – it is an immense honour to be trusted with another four years. I look forward to continuing to work hard for them to represent them with passion on Thurrock Council
HISTORICALLY, the fresh green leaves on the trees and the warmth of the welcome spring sunshine herald a spring in the step for the property market. And this year seems no different,
The South Ockendon Property Blog By Paul Tobias-Gibbens http://www.mpestates.co.uk THE value of all the homes in Tilbury has risen by more than 348.1% in the past two decades, to £777.5m, meaning its worth more than the stock listed sweetener manufacturers Pure Circle Ltd, which is worth £760.7m. Those Tilbury homeowners and Buy-to-Let landlords who bought […]
Mr. Perrin’s blog; “A Word in Your Ear” Thurrock Independents Party, the Great Pretenders! THE candidates are up and running in the Local Government Elections with hurdles to jump before they reach the winning post on the 3rd May 2018. Win or lose I wish most of them a safe journey and the satisfaction of […]
An open letter from Mr. Perrin to Councillor Luke Spillman. Dear Cllr Spillman, In response to your article on Child Poverty which included personal comments about me. You refer to me as “a left leaning blogger”, from the very start you indulge in political mudslinging, contradicting the much proclaimed ethos of the Thurrock Independents Party, […]
A Blogpost by Aveley and Uplands councillor, Luke Spillman (Thurrock Independent Party) Child poverty, it’s impact, and why politics must change if we are to abolish it. BEFORE I start I would like to exercise my right of reply to an article by left-leaning blogger, Peter Perrin, regarding my article published on the 31st March. […]
Mr. Perrin’s blog: A Word in Your Ear. My response to Cllr Luke Spillman’s blog titled “We Can Work It Out” posted in Your Thurrock on 31 March 2018. THIS is just a sanctimonious diatribe from a councillor who at the time of writing his blog cannot even make up his mind as to which […]
Mr Perrin’s blog; “A Word in Your Ear”. Should Councillors be on “Zero Hour” contracts? I pose the question based upon over ten years of attending Full Council monthly meetings and from time to time Cabinet and Overview and Scrutiny Committee meetings. During those years, I have been struck by the fact that there is […]
I”M past caring hearing about the things politicians are against. All I care about is what we can work together on to make things better for all.
Blogspot: The South Ockendon Property Blog By Paul Tobias-Gibbens http://www.mpestates.co.uk A little bit of good news this week on the South Ockendon Property Market as recently released data shows that the number of first time buyers taking out their first mortgage in 2017 increased more than in any other year since the global financial crisis […]