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PLANS for up to 32,000 new homes took a step closer last night in a special meeting of Thurrock Council. After a week of confusion...

COUNCILS across England have borrowed massive sums - in some cases the equivalent of ten times their annual budgets - to finance the purchase of real estate, our investigation has found.

THURROCK Council is aiming to support and inspire parents in Thurrock to find work with the launch of a new initiative.

OFELIA, aged 11, from St. Thomas of Canterbury School, Grays has been chosen as the winner of Euro MP Alex Mayer's Christmas Card competition.

FIRE Crews were called to an address in Araglen Avenue, South Ockendon after reports of a car striking a house.

1930 hrs A13 Thurrock. Two lanes closed eastbound between the A1012 (turnoff for Grays) and the A1089 (Turnoff for Tilbury) due to an incident involving...

BEDFORDSHIRE Police are appealing for the public’s help in finding a missing 15-year-old girl. Olivia Weston was last seen on the afternoon of Friday (7...



INDEPENDENT charity Crimestoppers is asking everyone to speak up about crime in the countryside.

A campaign has been launched to encourage more people to report crime in the countryside whether in villages, in homes, on roads or in farms.

Nearly one third of all reported crime in Essex is classed as rural - with violence the most common crime.

 Crimestoppers believes everyone has the right to feel safe from crime, wherever they live.

By Local Democracy Reporter Steve Shaw A COUNCIL has claimed it can avoid closing any of the borough’s libraries despite financial pressures. Thurrock Council plans to guarantee...

FIRE crews were called to a road traffic collision on the M25 at junction 30 for the A13 sliproad.

TAXPAYERS have been warned they could be facing a £24 council tax bill increase to pay for policing in Essex.

SINCE January Thurrock Council has filled 3,837 pot holes, emptied 10.5 million residential and trade waste bins, emptied over 50,000 street bins and cut over 1,185 acres of grass.

THE Royal Opera House is delighted that Thurrock Music Services, based at the High House Production Park in Purfleet, is a partner on the...

THURROCK'S Fun Choir ‘MOSAIC’ has just been able to purchase a new Yamaha Clavinova for their weekly rehearsals held at the Beacon Hill Academy in South Ockendon.

Report by Steve Catchpole ONCE again the weather was very kind and the 14 of us collected another 37 sacks of rubbish including 330 plastic...