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Traffic: M25 closed after lorry crashes

WE are currently at the scene of a single vehicle collision involving a lorry on the M25 motorway between J30 and J29 anti-clockwise.

Thurrock History: Coalhouse Fort in WW2

AT our October meeting Kevin Diver, a local historian, treated us to many photographs of the Sea Scouts, Women’s Royal Naval Service (Wrens), other naval personnel and civilians who carried out the serious and important job to defend London’s river

Roadworks: Monday November 5th to Sunday November 11th

M25 junction 29 Romford, Essex: electrical works Work to improve journeys by carrying out electrical works will start this week. The anti-clockwise entry slip road...

Tory councillor for Lodge Lane votes against motion to suspend controversial parking fines

ALL Labour and Thurrock Independents councillors voted for the motion, All Conservative councillors including cllr Elizabeth Rigby, whose ward of Stifford Clays covers the north side of Lodge Lane, voted against the motion.

The Thurrock Property Blog: Why Tilbury sellers are having to drop their asking prices

WHY Tilbury Sellers are Having to Reduce Their Asking PricesNovember 3, 2018 by Paul Tobias-Gibbins Some interesting statistics have come to light on the Tilbury Property Market

Blogpost: Fixed Odds Betting Terminals and Thurrock’s Suicide Prevention Minister, Jackie Doyle-Price

WHERE does Ms Jackie Doyle-Price stand on this issue? Is she on the side of the Bookmakers or is she on the side of the exploited vulnerable gamblers? As a Minister with the specific responsibility for the protection of the potentially suicidal I consider her silence a dereliction of her duty.

St Luke’s Hospice give help for those with secondary breast cancer

SUE Wooding and Karen Morris both have secondary breast cancer. They want people who also have the same incurable illness to know the great benefits they receive by attending a friendly, self-run ‘Get Together’ at Outpatients & Therapies department of St. Luke’s Hospice once a month, and invite them to come along and join in.

Tempers boil over as Thurrock councillors debate education

TEMPERS boiled over in Thurrock’s council chambers when a motion to congratulate children on exam results became a row about education cuts.

Choose Self Care for Life: Choose to Invest in Your Future Self

Choose Self Care for Life: Choose to Invest in Your Future Self NHS Thurrock Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is inviting primary schools to enter a...

Grays man in court over London Road burglary

THE arrest was in connection with a burglary at a home in London Road, Grays, in May 2016, in which items worth a five-figure sum were stolen.

Tilbury man is standing for Sheriff!

THERE could be a new sheriff in BA County, Colorado. That sheriff is C.J Elstob. Why are we telling Your Thurrock readers? Because the...

Thursday Traffic and Travel

A282/M25 clockwise carriageway between the exit and entry slip roads at J31 WestThurrock, A1306.

C2C ceremony marks railwaymen who died in WW1

LOCAL train operator c2c has commemorated the forthcoming centenary of Armistice Day by naming a train after the 88 local railwaymen who died in World War One.

Grays: Victory for campaigners as Elm Road school plan no longer going ahead

By Local Democracy Reporter Steve Shaw CONTROVERSIAL plans to use a park in Thurrock as the site for a new secondary school have been stopped after...

Will Thurrock councillors support Lodge Lane parking campaign

COUNCILLORS will be asked to support a campaign to change a decision banning residents in Grays from parking outside their homes – which they had previously been allowed to do.

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