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Details of Thurrock health services over Easter

HOWEVER you’re spending the bank holiday weekend, make sure you know where you can go for local health care.

Police make more arrests as oil protesters continue

AFTER a brief respite from protesters yesterday (Saturday, 9 April) Essex Police were back in action this morning after more campaigners turned up in Thurrock to disrupt access to a fuel storage site. 

Government invests in innovation with £30m for cutting-edge highway decarbonisation projects

CUTTING-edge, innovative ideas to decarbonise the country’s highways will be brought to life thanks to tens of millions of pounds in Government funding.   

Tree planted in Parker Road to commemorate Platinum Jubilee

WARD councillors and residents in Grays Riverside have today planted a tree in Parker Road as part of the national Queen's Green Canopy scheme. Speaking...

Save the Thameside Theatre group given deadline

A COMMUNITY group which hopes to save the Thameside Theatre from closure has had a deadline to come up with a viable plan extended...

Essex Police arrest 268 following fuel protests in Thurrock

ESSEX Police have now arrested 268 people following protests held in Thurrock during the last six days. These people have been arrested on suspicion of...

Rush: A joyous Jamaican journey at The Queens Theatre

IN 1948, hundreds of people from the Caribbean boarded the Empire Windrush and travelled to Tilbury Docks in Essex. With them they brought an explosion of dance, art, writing and music which would transform British culture.  

Woodside Shakespeare Festival at the Thameside Theatre

SHAKESPEARE plays: Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Romeo and Juliet, which they performed at the Thameside Theatre on Thursday 31st March in the...

More than 142,000 use online payment plans to pay their Self Assessment tax bill

MORE than 142,000 use online payment plans to pay their Self Assessment tax bill More than 142,000 customers have used HMRC’s online Time to Pay...

Proposals for drug-drivers to undertake rehabilitation courses before being allowed back behind the wheel

PROPOSALS require drug-drivers to undertake rehabilitation courses before being allowed back behind the wheel.

Essex welcomes its new High Sheriff Nick Alston

NICHOLAS Alston CBE DL is starting his year as the 842nd High Sheriff, determined that the role which dates back to Anglo Saxon times, is aligned with current day issues.  

Thurrock residents shed 200 pounds of weight between them with help of new local weight loss programme

SEVENTY Thurrock residents taking part in a free service, Gloji, provided by healthy lifestyle and wellbeing service provider Thrive Tribe, have lost 200 pounds of weight between them, in the last six months.

Essex Violence and Vulnerability Partnership awarded over £5 million from the Home Office

THE Essex Violence and Vulnerability Partnership was today awarded over £5 million from the Home Office to continue its fight against drug driven violence, county lines and knife crime. to continue its fight against drug driven violence, county lines and knife crime.

Covid-19: School closures have had impact on children’s development

COVID restrictions have delayed children’s’ readiness for primary school because they were not able to socialise with others and spent less time in early education where they learn skills to ‘develop their independence’.

Essex Police continue to make arrests over protests

ESSEX Police's response to a number of protests in Thurrock is continuing today, Monday 4 April. 

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