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Travelling Players: Grays Convent discover Shakespeare in a Suitcase

Travelling Players: Schools discover Shakespeare in a Suitcase Students from Royal Opera House Thurrock Trailblazer school, Grays Convent travelled to the Victoria and Albert...

Treetops School Create and Dance with the Royal Opera House

STUDENTS from Treetops School were visited by the Royal Opera House on Friday 20 April when dance artist Danielle Teale came to run a Create and Dance workshop. The workshops were for Years Three, Seven and Year Ten students. The theme of the workshops was Royal Ballet's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Gateway Academy students attend royally approved mental health event

AS an IQM (Inclusion Quality Mark) awarded school, the Gateway Academy are focussed on promoting well-being amongst its students with a school environment that understands and cares for each individual.

The Thurrock Property Blog: South Ockendon property owners are on the move

AS I have mentioned a number times in my local property market blog, with not enough new-build properties being built in South Ockendon and the surrounding area to keep up with demand for homes to live in (be that tenants or homebuyers), it's good to know more South Ockendon home sellers are putting their properties on to the market than a year ago.

Bank Holiday blaze as tyres set on fire near Blackshots Lane in Grays

THERE are reports of a large fire on in the Blackshots area.

Police make appeal over Fobbing crash which left four teenagers injured

ESSEX Police are making enquiries into a two-vehicle RTC in High Road, Fobbing, Stanford-le-Hope on Saturday, May 5.

Gateway Primary students earn iPads for top attendance

YEAR 4 pupils from the Gateway Primary Free School were celebrating recently after winning the Spring Term attendance challenge across all four GLC primary schools, with an attendance of 97.2%, gaining themselves five brand new iPads to use in class.

Come and join the Windrush 70th anniversary celebrations

Come and join the Windrush 70th anniversary celebrations. Full details on poster.

Sun shines on the Grays Beachcombers

SIXTEEN volunteers collected 30 bags of plastic and other rubbish from the riverfront in Grays yesterday.

Reflections on the Thurrock Elections 2018

NOW that the dust has settled, we thought we would reflect on the Thurrock Borough Council Elections of 2018.

Thurrock Local History Society: Talk on Tilbury Docks Police by Jackie Doyle-Price

Thurrock Local History Society 20 April 2018 – AGM followed by History of Tilbury Docks Police by Jackie Doyle-Price MP By Norma Leach AFTER the AGM at...

Thurrock LGBT present The Sound of Music

TO celebrate Essex Pride, an annual celebration of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender+ life in Essex and beyond, we have great pleasure in bringing you Sing-a-Long-a-Sound of Music.

Roadworks in Thurrock: Mon May 7th to Sun May 13th

A13 (M25), Essex: waterproofing works/ carriageway sweeping Work to improve journeys by carrying out waterproofing works and carriageway sweeping will start this week. The westbound...

Purfleet Primary parents praise TACC

THURROCK Adult Community College's Skills for Life team have recently received the thumbs up from Purfleet Primary Academy parents, after they attended a free short course at the school to develop confidence with their maths skills.

Two thrown from vehicle after serious smash in Fobbing

ESSEX Firefighters assisted at the scene of a road traffic collision on High Road, Fobbing this morning..

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