A DAY of remembrance was held on Sunday 31st March at Purfleet to acknowledge the Purfleet gunners who on 31st March 1916 shot down the first Zeppelin L15.
A THUG who spat in the face of a Thurrock Council Environmental Enforcement officer as she went about her duty has been sentenced to 120 hours community service and ordered to pay £805 in fines, victim surcharge and costs.
THURROCK is proud of its connections with the Empire Windrush, which arrived here at Tilbury Cruise Terminal on the 22nd June 1948 with the 70th Anniversary being celebrated last year in great style.
IN late 2018, Thurrock was named as one of the few areas of the country to have sent fewer than two state-school students to Oxbridge over the last three years.
THE crime was discovered on Sunday, 31 March just a few hundred yards away from where a service was being held to pay tribute to artillerymen shot down a Zeppelin in the First World War.
A TEAM of pupils from The Gateway Academy have been named winners of this year's Thurrock's Next Top Boss competition.
The contest, which tasks students...
COMMUNITY groups across the borough are being invited to join a network of "Friends of" park groups and others to help improve Thurrock's parks and open
spaces.
PORT of Tilbury, London’s major port, has completed its new major storage expansion at the port’s Grain Terminal as part of the growth strategy. The new flat store increases the capacity by an additional 16,000 metric tonnes of both import and export wheat.
