THURROCK Council’s Cabinet has unanimously backed a bid to create a Thames Freeport that could see new skills academies and more than 20,000 new jobs. Cabinet agreed to support the submission of the Thames Freeport bid to government at its meeting on Wednesday, 13 January.
RETAIL trade union Usdaw has renewed the call for key workers to be prioritised for vaccination, after the Government indicated they are looking at priority for the second phase and the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) accepted that occupation is a factor.
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.
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THURROCK has dropped to tenth in the Covid-19 table.
The borough has 1719 cases. That equates to 986.0 cases per 100,000.
This continues to confirm that...
ROYAL Mail has denied it is prioritising lucrative parcel contracts over letter deliveries as many parts of the UK are suffering from a slow postal service.
TEN new mass Covid vaccination centres are to open in England from Monday, as the government bids to meet its target of offering 15 million people in the UK a dose by 15 February reports the BBC.
THE government is planning new laws to protect statues in England from being removed “on a whim or at the behest of a baying mob”, Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick has said.
This continues to confirm that we may be in a for a very difficult January and underline why the authorities have declared that the whole county has to be treated as the scene of a “major incident”.
