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Morrisons donates 500,000 meals to pet rescue centres as demand for pet food soars

MORRISONS has today announced it will be donating over half a million meals to local pet rescue centres to help feed the nation's cats and dogs - after demand for pet food has surged during lockdown.

Thurrock councillors encourage members of BAME community to take vaccine

Cllr Bukky Okunade, Cllr Abbie Akinbohun, Cllr Qaisar Abbas and Cllr Daniel Chukwu met virtually and discussed the vaccine awareness plans jointly with residents to get the Covid vaccine.

Ask Teddi app designed to support parents and guardians launched in Thurrock

ASK Teddi a free app that offers advice and information for parents and carers of children under 5 years-old in Thurrock is now available to download.

Grays Councillors set to meet senior council officers amid ongoing asbestos concerns

DESPITE attempted assurances about the risk of asbestos in the Grays high rise flats, Grays councillors Tony Fish, Martin Kerin and Jane Pothecary are set to meet senior council officers and public health officials to further outline residents' concerns and press for further assurances around resident safety.

Land of the Fanns training opportunities

THE Land of the Fanns Landscape Partnership Scheme wants to help train today’s Landscape Champions and those of tomorrow. It has a new programme of low cost online

Grays councillor is backing The Blues

GRAYS Councillor Martin Kerin is backing Grays Athletic Football Club as they prepare to present their case for a new home in Ship Lane....

Thurrock foster carers to be exempt from council tax

THURROCK Council's Conservative administration have announced that from April 2021, Thurrock Council Foster Carers living in Thurrock will be exempt from paying council tax.  Conservative...

Freemasons invited to volunteer for vaccination drive

THE Freemasons are encouraging its 200,000 members to roll up their sleeves and volunteer to help vaccinate the population.

Essex Based Charity The Dream Factory launch their 2021 Kids Helping Kids Campaign – Kindness Makes Dreams Come True!

THE Dream Factory grants dreams to children and young adults between the age of 3 to 25 years, who suffer from life-threatening, life-limiting conditions or have severe disabilities

Chadwell St Mary misses out on over £20,000 of community money

CHADWELL St Mary misses out on over £20,000 of community money as secretive council hoards money for it's own projects.

Asda to provide 7,000 Dell laptops to help schools tackle digital exclusion

ASDA has today announced that it is working with Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) to provide 7,000 laptops to schools across the UK to help those children who are at risk of falling behind in their education because they do not have the technology to take part in online lessons during lockdown.

Cash boost for Thurrock Play Network

CORY Riverside Energy (‘Cory’) has today announced the seven successful applicants to the Cory Community Fund, which will receive grants totalling £25,000.

Make a date with Thurrock Neighbourhood Watch and help keep local communities safer

THE efforts of the volunteers who run and fundraise for Thurrock Neighbourhood Watch have been praised by the county’s police commissioner and his deputy. The...

Purfleet on Thames to host AGM on zoom

PURFLEET-on-Thames Community Forum's next meeting and AGM is on 26th January at 7:30pm. After receiving £75 million from the Governments Housing Infrastructure Fund the...

Mayor of Thurrock speaks out on Stanford floods

WE are writing today, following the events in Stanford West yesterday – a day which has seen family homes and businesses not only disrupted, but their property damaged. The River Hope went up to heights not known to anyone with recall of 40+ years of living in SLH.

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