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EVEN more appointments available this weekend to help boost your immunity in 2022 – at Thurrock Health Centre, Grays. Even more walk-in Covid vaccine appointment...

ESSEX Police are urgently appealing for the public’s help to find Kieran Devlin who is missing from his home in Grays.  The 33-year-old was last...

JANUARY is often the time for a new start or direction in your life; with the ongoing effects of the pandemic, many of us are still working from home and re-evaluating what’s important in our lives.

ESSEX Community Foundation (ECF) is one of the network of community foundations distributing the Arts Council England Let’s Create Jubilee Fund, a £5 million programme that will support community and voluntary organisations in England to develop creative and cultural activities as part of Her Majesty The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations in June 2022.

BUDGET proposals will ensure that both children’s and adults social care receive a spending boost in the next council year, as Thurrock sets a balanced budget for the May 2022 - April 2023 year; the second balanced budget in a post-COVID world claims Thurrock Council.

THIS message has been issued because some minor flooding to coastal roads and footpaths is likely between 11:15am and 3:15pm on Tuesday 4th January.

DETECTIVES investigating a serious assault in Tilbury are appealing for anyone with information to come forward.It was reported members of the public found the victim, a man in his 30s, had been found injured in Feenan Highway shortly before 9.45pm yesterday (Sunday 2 January).He was taken to hospital where he is in a life-threatening condition.

AN elderly man has been rescued from a house fire and revived after being found unconscious and not breathing.

MINISTERS have been tasked with developing “robust contingency plans” for workplace absences, as the government warned rising cases could see up to a quarter of staff off work. reports the BBC.

FACE masks are to be worn in secondary classrooms in England’s schools to reduce the spread of the Omicron variant, the government has announced.

LAKESIDE Shopping Centre is celebrating the end of an ‘extremely positive’ year that has seen a staggering 15 new retailers join the centre plus several refurbishments – with more to come in 2022. 

ESSEX Police have closed part of the A13 this morning, Thursday 30 December, after a lorry shed its load.

FOLLOWING the fire and loss of power at Lionel Oxley House, Grays on 26 December, power has been restored and residents were able to return to their properties yesterday (28 December).

FOLLOWING a concerted campaign 11 new foster carers are currently being assessed with a view to helping youngsters.

LOCAL chemists are stepping up their pleas to carry out more coronavirus jabs and ease pressure on the NHS.