The helicopter was scrambled just before 3pm this afternoon after reports that a youth had suffered a leg injury whilst on his bike in the Adelaide Road area of Tilbury.

The helicopter deftly landed in a parcel of green near to Dunlop Road where they were joined by two further ambulances.

The youth was transferred by land ambulance to Basildon Hospital.

Further details to come

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The discovery at Tilbury is the biggest single detection of class A drugs at the port in six years, the agency said.

The drugs were inside an industrial digger machinery, shipped by container from Surinam, South America, and destined for Holland.

Sections of the machinery had been hollowed out and filled with 145 packages of cocaine, totalling 166kg.

Marc Owen, from the UK Border Agency, said: “The actions of our officers at Tilbury have prevented a massive quantity of cocaine from flooding the European market.”

The game had started brightly when Ben Boyce scored after 33 minutes. It could have been two when Jack West’s shot was kicked off the line. Things got worse for West when he was stretchered off with a broken leg.

The winner for Potters Bar came in the 86th minute giving the Herts team their first victory of the season.

Paul Vaughan said: “I think the lads may have thought that these were three points in the bag. But this is the league in which nothing can be taken for granted.

“We really missed Bobby Ports today. He is an essential part of our team.

“So we go on to Ware on tuesday for a real six-pointer already. We have signed Nathan Gordon and released Jamie Pooley as we search for the best way forward.”

Zonin is reportedly the largest producer in the Italian wine sector and was founded nearly two centuries ago.

Zonin is based in Gambellara near Vicenza in northern Italy and has vineyards across Italy as well and in the US. Zonin now possesses more than 3,700 acres of vineyards in Italy and produces some 25 million bottles of wine each year.

Tilbury depot is 470,000 sq ft and is located portside at Tilbury Freeport with CCTV systems, intruder alarms and IT systems.

Customers are now able to check their stock over the internet in real time and GPS handsets have been introduced to enhance the tracking of deliveries.

4am

A fire investigation will be carried out to establish the cause of an incident involving a car, a garage, a shed and several trees.

Initially a single appliance was sent to tackle the incident, which was reported as a fence alight. But after a number of calls to ECFRS’ Control, a second appliance was sent to assist.
Firefighters reported that the blaze was well alight when they arrived at the scene. Crews wearing breathing apparatus used two hose reels to tackle the incident, which was dealt with by 05:08 hrs.

Derry Court, Derry Avenue, South Ockendon

2am

Crews were called to a fire in an internal bin cupboard. On arrival at the scene, firefighters reported that the whole of the four-storey domestic dwelling was smoke logged.

Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus used one hose reel to tackle the incident and a thermal image camera to assist in a search. By 02:23 hrs, the fire was extinguished.

They used a high pressure fan to clear the building of smoke.

A joint Police and Fire Service investigation will be carried out to establish the cause of the incident.

There were no casualties and residents did not need to be evacuated.

Fr Tim has been vicar at the church for thirteen years. He is a hugely popular figure and his church is seen as a cornerstone for the transformation and regeneration of Tilbury.

In the first part of the interview Fr Tim discusses the general concerns the clergy in Tilbury and across the borough have for the growing number of suspected sham marriages.

Officers from Essex Police and a specialist immigration crime team stopped the ceremony at St John’s church, in Dock Road, as it was about to start at 12 noon on Tuesday August 25, 2010.

The Nigerian groom and Dutch bride were arrested along with two witnesses and another man

Roqsilmar Marti, 28, of Rotterdam, Netherlands, the bride, Abdallah Magezi, 35, of Plumstead, south east London and Abraham Akinola, 32, of Sycamore Close, Tilbury, the groom are all charged with conspiring to facilitate breaches of UK immigration law.

Magezi is also charged with possessing a false identity document and escaping from lawful custody.

Akinola is also charged with remaining in the UK beyond the time limit, possessing a false identity document and making a false declaration to procure marriage.

All three were remanded in custody to appear at Basildon magistrates’ court today, Friday August 27.

A 38-year-old man and a 32-year-old woman, both from Tilbury, who were both arrested on suspicion of conspiring the facilitate breaches of UK immigration law, were both bailed until September 22 pending further enquiries.

The couple, plus three others, were handcuffed at the start of a noon ceremony at St John’s Church, Tilbury, said UK Border Agency officials.

Police said all five were being held on suspicion of breaching immigration laws.

A police spokesman told a reporter that the bride was a 28-year-old Dutch woman from Rotterdam. Sources said the four others were from Nigeria and in their 30s.

Investigators said the arrests were the culmination of an operation planned for weeks.

A UK Border Agency spokesman said officers emerged from a back room at the church and the vicar conducting the ceremony was aware of the investigation.

“Officers from a specialist immigration crime team stopped the wedding,” said the spokesman.

“The Nigerian groom and Dutch bride were put in handcuffs at the altar, while two witnesses – a Nigerian man and woman – were also arrested.”

Police said: “A 31-year-old woman from Tilbury, a 38-year-old man from Tilbury, a 32-year-old man from Tilbury, a 35-year-old man from London, plus the bride, were being questioned.”

A spokesman said all five were arrested on suspicion of immigration offences, and the 35-year-old man was also held on suspicion of trying to escape from police custody.

Chair of the Trust, Charles Curtis spoke to YourThurrock’s guest reporter Neil Speight about how they were able to help the Sea Cadets.

One of the main consequences of the floods has been that hundreds of bridges have been swept away.

The bridges come after the Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg has vowed that Britain will “stand by Pakistan in its hour of need” as he praised the public’s generosity in raising funds for the flood relief effort.

The Deputy Prime Minister said the UK had “led the way” as donations raised by the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) appeal reached £33 million.

The Government has also pledged more than £60 million to help cope with the humanitarian disaster.

The additional money pledged last week will be targeted mainly at the Punjab and Sindh provinces in the south of the country and will be spent alongside the money raised by the DEC appeal.

As well as addressing the urgent need for shelter, food, clean water and healthcare, the support will increasingly go to longer-term help for people to rebuild their lives, such as supplying farmers with new seed for crops.

In 2007, they improved (just) to 17%. Last year there was a massive leap to 31%. This year, the school has made another huge improvement with 44%.

Anyone who visits the school on a regular basis will not be surprised at this success. Options Evenings are packed out, school performances have to put on extra shows and the bond between all involved in the school is fantastic.

YourThurrock spoke to students and staff to assess how the school achieved such wonderful results.

RWE npower is a leading integrated UK energy company and is part of the RWE Group, one of Europe’s leading electricity and gas companies. They serve around 6.7 million customer accounts and produce around 8% of the electricity used in Great Britain.

To give the local community an opportunity to find out more about their proposals for a gas-fired power station at Tilbury, they will be holding the following public exhibitions:

23 August and 7 September – Woodville Halls, Woodville Place, Gravesend
24 August and 8 September – Tilbury Community Association Centre, Civic Square, Tilbury
All events will be open from 3pm – 8pm.

Information available at the exhibitions will include:

The history of Tilbury Power Station to provide background and context
Details of the proposed CCGT plant and associated gas pipeline
Preliminary Environmental Information

They are investigating options for a new modern combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) power station with a main unit capacity of around 2,000MW. In addition, there could be up to 400MW of open cycle gas turbine plant (OCGT) which would provide flexible generating capacity to support the management of peak electricity demands. The new station would be constructed within their site at Tilbury, near the existing Tilbury ‘B’ Power Station, which is due to close by the end of 2015.

A spokesperson said: “A new gas-fired power station would maintain Tilbury’s position as a crucially important site for energy generation in the UK and would help secure the country’s energy supplies for future generations.

“A new power station at Tilbury would be a compact industrial facility. The main CCGT plant could have a total generating capacity of up to 2,000MW, enough electricity for three million homes. If the project were to go ahead, a new station is likely to take approximately three years to construct.

“The Tilbury site is ideal to help deliver new generating capacity in the UK as it already houses Tilbury ‘B’ Power Station, and so has existing connections to the national electricity grid.

Replacing the coal-fired Tilbury ‘B’ with a gas-fired CCGT plant would bring a number of environmental benefits. The main products of the combustion of natural gas are CO2, water vapour and nitrogen oxides (NOx). However, the plant would be fitted with the latest technology to minimise the production of NOx and would be carbon capture ready. Furthermore, there would be no ash or dust, and natural gas contains virtually no sulphur.

In line with the Government’s aspirations for power stations to be carbon capture ready (CCR), we would identify an area of the site for the potential fitting and enablement of carbon dioxide capture and storage technologies (CCS) in the future, if and when this technology becomes viable.

One option that may be considered is the potential development of Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) technology at the site. IGCC is the process where coal can be turned into a gas and used as a fuel for the CCGT power station, with the resulting CO2 being captured and removed for storage under the North Sea.

The SS Robin is an entirely new concept in historic ship conservation transforming the SS Robin into a dynamic museum and heritage attraction for 21st century London.

Owners of the SS Robin have been in negotiations over a possible base while she is converted into a £2 million London tourist attraction.

David Kampfner, Project Director for the SS Robin Trust said: “We are very grateful to Forth Ports for allowing us to finalise the refit at the Port of Tilbury.

“We should be leaving Lowestoft in the first week of September and heading into Tilbury.”

The museum is intended to explore for the first time the interlinked stories of London’s industrialisation, trade, energy, commodities, migration, wealth creation, seafaring and shipbuilding.

The Trust’s Honorary Member is HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, who has visited the ship on several occasions and has been extremely supportive of their campaign. Their Patrons are Sir Julian Oswald GCB, Lord Mawson OBE, Lord Ambrose Greenway, Jim Fitzpatrick MP, and the Channel 4 News broadcaster Jon Snow.

YourThurrock plans to be down at the docks as the ship pulls into the port. Below is a film of the ship moving out of London two years ago.