A TILBURY community organisation has announced a change in its leadership. A community champion who has long been involved in the Tilbury area is stepping down from her role of Chair at One Community Development Trust.
POLICE want to identify a man caught on CCTV at the time that a quantity of petrol was stolen from an Asda filling station at Thurrock Park Way in Tilbury.
The theft happened at around 9.45am on Thursday January 2. A man pulled up at the station in a green Ford Focus and filled the car with more than £50 of petrol but then left the premises without making any attempt to pay.
LABOUR'S parliamentary candidate for South Basildon and East Thurrock, Mike Le-Surf, has branded the local Tories as ineffectual and irrelevant after the government announced that historic options D and E for a lower Thames crossing will not be revisited, leaving a crossing running through Thurrock firmly on the table.
OR should we say Aveley Comprehensive or Belhus Park Humanities College? Whichever school you identify with, the old school building was being demolished and...
THURROCK MP, Jackie Doyle-Price has secured a debate on the lower Thames crossing in the House of Commons. The debate is scheduled for Tuesday afternoon (Jan 14th) It will be beamed live on the Parliament Channel.
This is your opportunity to ‘Speak up for your Age’ and take part in ongoing consultations and let the Council know about what’s working and what’s not, in relation to older peoples services. So if your wish to help improve your life and the lives of all older people, then come along and Speak up for your Age!
POLICE are attempting to reunite several items of jewellery with their rightful owners after finding them at the side of the street in Grays. Neighbourhood policing officers had been on patrol on Advice Avenue on Monday, December 30, 2013 when they discovered the bracelets, earrings and rings in a hedge.
NHS Thurrock Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) will be holding its Governing Body meeting on 29th January 2014 at 10am. Members of the public are warmly invited to attend. The meeting will be held in the Main Hall at The Culver Centre, Daiglen Drive, South Ockendon, Essex. RM15 5RR.
POLICE would like to speak to this man about the theft of meat from a shop in South Ockendon. A man walked into the Co-op, in Canterbury Parade, at about 8.30pm on January 6 and selected some meat items from the display before putting them into a shopping basket.
TWO CHAFFORD boys have earned international call-ups for the England Ice-Hockey team but they need the help of local business. Ethan Boolkah (14) and his brother Jaden both play Ice Hockey for Chelmsford.
A126 in West Thurrock blocked and delays in both directions at Lancaster Roundabout, because of an overturned lorry and recovery work. On the roundabout. A13 Essex - A13 lane closed on entry slip road and delays London-bound at Lakeside, because of an accident involving two lorries and recovery work.
COMMUTERS returning to work after a long festive break were faced with a rush-hour hangover as trains were delayed. C2C announced that: "Owing to signalling problems between Grays and Pitsea some lines are blocked.
AND whilst it is true that as a local authority the powers in the animal welfare act are discretionary, the fact is that Thurrock council is the landlord here. There has been poor management of this site on a number of levels. As we all know, those horses should not be there in the first place. So for Thurrock council to simply shrug shoulders because it is all too tiresome and difficult is really not on.
EMERGENCY services battled to rescue a man who had fallen six feet down a sea wall in East Tilbury. Firefighters were called at just after 1.30 pm to assist paramedics to rescue a man who had fallen six foot down a grassy bank next to the sea wall ar Coalhouse Fort.
