St Luke's Hospice has had a lucky windfall after staff from the South Essex Business and Commercial Banking office of Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) handed over a cheque for £180. The money was raised through an office sweepstake as staff, who also look after NatWest customers, paid an entry fee and picked teams from a hat prior to this summer’s FIFA World Cup in South Africa.
Every year, we waste hundreds of hours of daylight by sleeping through the morning light. “Lighter Later is a campaign to shift one hour of light from the morning to the evening where we can actually use it,” said campaign manager Daniel Vockins.
NHS South West Essex has announced a formal 90 day consultation with staff and trade unions on its proposals to make around 224 non-clinical staff redundant in both the comissioning and community services parts of the organisation.
Staff had been told verbally of the proposals in briefing sessions hosted by the chief executive and senior management team over the last week. Staff were formally notified of the consultation yesterday (11 October 2010).
The free testing scheme is part of efforts to educate and protect residents -particularly the elderly and vulnerable - from fire. According to Essex Fire and Rescue around 5,000 house fires are caused by electric blankets each year.
OUT of the twelve acts that appeared at Your Voice last week, there was only one boy. On the one hand, that is a disappointment; on the other, from tiny acorns and in the shape of eight-year-old Bailey McCartney, we have a tiny acorn indeed.
THE OCKENDON owner of the website Solicitors from Hell has lost a court case after a lawyer won libel damages after malicious and untrue accusations about her were posted on the website by a “cyber stalker”. The Evening Standard reports that Megan Phillips was the victim of “completely fictitious” derogatory personal and professional remarks left on the Solicitors from Hell site.
CHAIR of Thurrock FC Tommy South has moved swiftly to replace manager Hakan Heyrettin by appointing Greg Lincoln as their new manager. The 30-year-old Lincoln is a former player for the Fleet and teams up with Grant Gordon and Jason Broom.
Promotion,promotion, promotion and then when you’ve done that go and do some more. Rainham-based Drama Group Lightnin’ work hard.
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A MAN has been charged with possessing an imitation firearm in a public place following an incident in Grays. Police were called to Dell Road at about 1.40pm on Tuesday, October 12 following reports that a man had been seen with a handgun. A man was arrested about 15 minutes later in Derby Road.
Cllr Eddie Hardiman, Deputy Mayor of Thurrock, helped promote the campaign by acting as the school crossing patrol outside Little Thurrock Primary School, Rectory Road, Grays, on Monday morning. He said: “School crossing patrol officers play a vital role in making sure schoolchildren are provided with a safe route to and from the school.
EAST Thurrock produced a battling team performance to dump their Ryman Premier visitors out of the Championship Manager Trophy on penalties after a hard-fought match.
Goalless at half time, the match took a twist with two goals inside a minute in the second half, but that was it as far as goals were concerned until the shoot-out when East Thurrock produced the perfect nap hand from the spot, with Richard Wray saving Greg Enstone’s spot-kick to turn the tide in the home side’s favour.
MC Sweet is clearly on a creative high at the moment. Anyone who follows his youtube and facebook channels will see that the Tilbury rapper and his colleagues are busy on a number of fronts.
Yatoo is based on the side of the Guemgang River, in a small city called Gong Ju in South Korea. It was established in 1981, starting as the ‘Four Seasons Research Society’. Their inspirations have been touched by the natural changes in 4 seasons (Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter). The process of birth to death is happening in our mother nature and this process becomes Yatoo's background.
A lorry driver who worked for 26 hours without taking a proper break was fined £520 and ordered off the roads to rest under a safety operation carried out by Essex Police.
Two other drivers, in a vehicle from a European- based company, were found to have amassed 160 infringements in connection with their working hours and rest breaks. They were fined £600 each .
Carl doesn't pull his punches when it comes to the salary of chief executives of councils including Thurrock Council's Graham Farrant. Carl is amazed that when everybody else is taking a pay cut or imposing a pay freeze, there appears to be a "stony silence" from the cabal of council chiefs.
