Thurrock Music Services at the Culver Centre, South Ockendon is engaging in one of its most ambitious programmes of half term workshops for many years. Monday 25 October and Tuesday 26 October 2010 will see Orchestral Workshops for both The Thurrock Youth Training Orchestra and the Thurrock Youth Orchestra.
OPEN evenings are fascinating. Each school that we work with manage to present what they do in a unique way. Hassenbrook had the new Stanford and Corringham sixth form centre to display as well as many other departments. Needless to say, the young prospective students were fascinated by the scientific experiments as well as the futuristic i-lab.
The leading high street chocolatier will not only be giving Lakeside customers a glimpse of Continental life with this mouth-watering version of the famous Paris landmark, but will also give shoppers a taste of contemporary Europe. Thousands of free chocolates from the new look Continental collection will be given out to shoppers from 10am until 10pm in the central atrium at Lakeside for Chocolate Week – a national celebration of fine chocolate.
Several males were detained following a call to Dell Road just off Hathaway Road in Grays. Police cars raced to just below the multi-storey car park in the centre of town where a number of males were detained.
The meeting has been organised by residents on the Estate who have come together to form a Community Group. This is because they want to ensure that local residents are able to influence the new developments on the Estate and have more say on the local improvements.
There will be a public meeting at Corringham Village Hall, Springhouse Road, Corringham, on 1 November, between 2pm and 4pm; a surgery at the Alexandra Hall complex, Alexandra Road, Tilbury, on 3 November, noon until 8pm; a surgery at Thameside 2, Thameside complex, Orsett Road, Grays, on 9 November, between noon and 8pm; a public meeting at Hassenbrook School, Hassenbrook Road, Stanford-le-Hope, on 11 November, between 5pm and 7pm; and a public meeting at the Culver Centre, Daiglen Drive, South Ockendon, on 17 November, between 7pm and 9pm.
The Government face a real challenge in ensuring that the big society does not just become empty rhetoric or a buzzword, but something that we can all support and play a part in. We should see the contribution that is already being made at national and local levels as something on which we can build.
In the Government's drive for what it calls a smaller state, is it expected that these kinds of organisations should have to pick up services that are no longer provided by central or local government? Are the cuts being made in public expenditure likely to put pressure on services that are already provided by the third sector? If we have a smaller state, these problems will not go away
MONDAY was National Personal Safety Day. Stakeholders from the Thurrock Community Safety Partnership were out giving information and advice in Thurrock Council’s Civic Offices and railway stations across the borough where posters were also on display.
The key message, time and time again, is that it is not a talent show but an educational platform. The staff from Thurrock Music Services will be sitting down with their young charges to discuss their singing through the use of the films recorded.
WHEN you interview Mr King, you always pay attention because you have a terrible fear that he may be asking questions at the end and heaven help you if you don't know the answer! Headteacher of Gable Hall and William Edwards, John King will be retiring at the end of the academic year. Both schools know that the new choice of Head will be a vital vital decision.
Police were called by concerned members of the public around 11.45pm and found a large group of teenagers who were believed to have caused damage to property and been involved in a fight.
I warned the cabinet member two weeks ago that to go ahead without consulting local people was short sighted and wrong. I even produced a simple, inexpensive consultation plan which would have given residents a chance to have their say in designing the service. This was completely ignored, with one local Labour councillor saying that it was "already decided" and that asking residents would just be "costly and time consuming".
IT always seems to be that every time we visit the main hall at Grays school, there is always something "out of the box" going on. The school approach education from a number of angles bur keep it firmly pupil-centred.
Spearheading the project is former Sous Chef at The Dorchester, Ronnie Wyatt-Goodwin, who is Head of Catering Operations and Development at South Essex College. He said: “With this project we are delivering on the government’s agenda for public sector organisations to work smarter together to improve efficiencies and opportunities to the benefit of all.
This win puts Thurrock at the top of the NE14HOCKEY Div. 3 SE table on goal difference from Maldon & Little Baddow scoring just one more goal.
Thurrock’s Men’s first XI went into this fixture knowing it would be a hard fought battle to take all three points with the opposition's recent results.
