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TWO contracts are in play: a £600m contract for new roads in Kent and a £1.3bn contract for new roads on the north side of the crossing.

HARTFORD Holdings, the parent company of Trojan Baths, Mantaleda Bathrooms and Thomas Crapper & Co, has acquired a specialist shower tray manufacturer based in Purfleet reports Insider Media.

FROM 1 April 2021, all five Clinical Commissioning Groups will take control of the planning, strategic direction, priority setting and decision making for GP services. This is a first step towards strengthening local decision making under plans to create an Integrated Care Systems (ICS) which will manage services on behalf of local people.

COUNCIL workers providing essential services through the health crisis to the residents of Thurrock will strike for three weeks because of Thurrock Council’s plans to "brutally cut their pay and conditions" says Unite the Union.

THURROCK Council and DP World London Gateway are working together on a major project to improve The Manorway, Stanford-le-Hope, to make the road quieter for use by HGVs.

DOGS Trust is demanding that the Government takes urgent action to end puppy smuggling as the charity reaches the milestone of 1,500 smuggledpuppies rescued and rehomed through its Puppy Pilot scheme – with an approximate street value of £3 million1 if they had been sold by their dealers. Dogs Trust is calling for the Government to:

IN the past year, more Essex women have been screened for cervical cancer than ever before.

A PAIR of drug dealers were caught with heroin and crack cocaine worth more than £11,700 have been sentenced. 

PRISONERS at Chelmsford Prison – a Category B prison – were only allowed visits from loved ones for 100 days last year.

THE INFECTION rate in Thurrock has dropped by 6.2% over the last seven days. The borough has 76 cases. Thurrock now stands at 154th out of...

ONE of the country’s largest academy trusts has become the latest victim of a targeted ransomware cyber attack – with laptops used by pupils...

The habitat site, which in 2019 was recognised as of national importance for insects and other invertebrates, was created seven years ago by spreading chalk slurry over an area equivalent to six football pitches on the bare surface of a former landfill,

KELTBRAY has been appointed by Purfleet Centre Regeneration Ltd (PCRL), a joint venture between Urban Catalyst and Swan Housing Association in association with Thurrock Council.

A MAN who ran over a woman at the Amazon distribution centre in Tilbury has pleaded guilty to attempted murder.

TWO households or groups of up to six people are now able to meet outside in England again as the stay-at-home Covid restrictions order comes to an end reports the BBC.