THE 2016-17 Foster Carers Annual Report was heard at Corporate Parenting committee last week (Wednesday 6 December) which explained how lots of good work is taking place, but that there is still a shortage of local foster carers.
THE Safer Essex Roads Partnership (SERP) is encouraging road users to submit footage showing dangerous road user behaviour as part of a new campaign to make the region’s roads safer for everyone.
MICHAEL O'Reilly, a former apprentice at the Royal Opera House Bob and Tamar Manoukian Production Workshop in Purfleet, has been using his artistic skills to help brighten up hospital rooms.
ALMOST 600 young people have signed up for Thurrock Council’s new £3m OnTrack youth employment initiative – a completely free, tailor-made career support service aimed at unemployed 16 to 29 year olds in the borough.
UKIP's Cllr Tim Aker MEP said: "Today we find out that the European Court of Justice will be governing us for at least 10 years after we leave the EU. The national humiliation continues. Theresa May has bound us to paying the EU's bloody money.
