THURROCK Council is once again backing a national campaign to get half a million people out and about tidying up their local communities between 2 and 4 March 2018.
THE Port of Tilbury, London’s major port, welcomed Cllr Tunde Ojetola and Mrs Bunmi Ojetola - The Mayor and Mayoress of Thurrock - to the port to hear about the port’s significant investment programme.
THURROCK Council has decided to exempt young care leavers from Council tax, help the most vulnerable leavers get onto the property ladder as well as help them with a range of support from education to debt advice in an innovative shake up of its aftercare service.
THE LANDLORD at the White Hart Inn pub in Grays says the Golliwogs that are draped all over his bar are set to stay in defiance of possible action by Thurrock Council.
WORK to improve journeys by carrying out vegetation clearance will start this week. The westbound exit slip road to the A1089 will be closed overnight, between 10pm and 5am, on Thursday 15 February.
THE quick actions of two officers and a concerned neighbour have helped save an elderly woman in Aveley who had become trapped in her bath for three days.
IN the last three days, thieves have stolen 16 gully covers from Thurrock’s roads creating, dangerous conditions for pedestrians, cyclists and road users.
THURROCK'S lingerie entrepreneur Ella Vine teamed up with a royal tailor Marek Markowski to design a range of exclusive smoking jackets for men and women in the style worn by Prince Charles, Tom Cruise and David Bowie.