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War veteran searching for Tilbury family to return lost war letters

A veteran soldier is on a mission to trace the family of a man from Tilbury, who fought in a town on the Dutch-German...

Join Ockendon’s Freddie on a Bad Hair Day!

SWAP your sophisticated locks for Mohawks, mullets and wigs this February to help raise money for Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity. Bad Hair Day 2017 will be hitting the nation on Friday 10 February

Courtney-Lee’s catwalk pageant in Aveley a great success!

SEVENTEEN-year-old Courtney-Lee Collins, is celebrating the success of her fundraising Catwalk pageant she held in Aveley at the weekend. With a 6 strong panel of judges, more than 50 contestants competed in five fun rounds to test their modelling skills.

Bum wrap lands Grays drug dealer in court

A MAN has admitted concealing 86 wraps of crack cocaine and heroin in his bottom.

New Thurrock grammar school will have “admissions criteria for disadvantaged”

PLANS for a new grammar school in Thurrock are well underway says the portfolio holder for education.

Lounge Bar in Chafford Hundred wins appeal and gets licence back

IN September 2016, Thurrock Council’s licensing sub-committee revoked the licence of Chafford Hundred bar The Lounge Bar.

Thurrock marks World Holocaust Memorial Day

AROUND 150 people, young and old, braved Friday’s (27 January) weather to spend 90 minutes at the Palmer’s Rest Garden in High View Avenue to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.

Tilbury woman sought by Essex Police

ESSEX Police are appealing for information to help trace a woman from Tilbury who they want to speak to in connection with a number of thefts and an assault.

The Silk Road comes to Purfleet

PURFLEET based world renowned arts organisation Kinetika launches Silk River in the UK by inviting West Bengal Patachitra artists to work with communities along...

People are the most important thing in Thurrock

PEOPLE are the most important element in Cllr Sue MacPherson’s Neighbourhoods portfolio she told Thurrock Council on Wednesday (25 January) evening. And, in an...

Grays residents left “stunned” after receiving a bill for fly-tipping

A LEADING Thurrock UKIP councillor rose on the floor of the council chamber to draw attention to a bill Grays residents had received from Thurrock Council.

Hundreds of Thurrock residents sign petition to prevent US President Donald Trump from making state visit to UK

Update: 0900 hrs Thurrock signatures: 1,196 South Basildon and East Thurrock: 991. HUNDREDS of Thurrock residents have signed a petition that calls for the invitation for US...

Crisis what crisis? Thurrock Council reject call for action

A BID for Thurrock Council to call the present state of health care a crisis was rejected by a majority of the councillors.

Gateway Primary purchase defibrillator

FRIENDS of Gateway Primary Free School (GPFS PTA) recently purchased a defibrillator which will be placed in the Lower Heart Space, adjacent to the main reception.

An Open Letter From Thames Crossing Action Group

ON Thursday 26th January it will be 12 months exactly since the public consultation began on the proposed route for a new Lower Thames...

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