OCTOBER half term saw Ormiston Park Academy (OPA) run their first Basketball Excellence Programme Camp. From Monday 25th to Friday 29th October, two sessions per day were held for players from school years 5 to 11.
AN innovative new database of more than 500 businesses, built by National Highways to help local firms win their share of work earmarked for SMEs on the Lower Thames Crossing, has today (Thursday 4 November) been handed over to thelarge construction and engineering firms bidding for work on the project.
BLACKSHOTS councillors Ben Maney and Joy Redsell joined Essex Police and Thurrock Council officers on Thursday 28th October for a patrol of their ward.
THURROCK Council has launched a poster campaign to urge residents and visitors to the borough to make sure they put their litter in bins or take it home with them.
HAVENS Hospices, which provides palliative nursing and supportive care to adults and children living with complex or incurable conditions across Essex, has become the latest charity in the country to accept a new multi-retailer gift card that can be used exclusively in charity shops.
TRADE body, the UK and Ireland Fuel Distributors Association (UKIFDA) is urging more oil heated households in Essex aged 75 and over to sign up to its Cold Weather Priority scheme this winter, in a bid to help prevent excess winter deaths.
LAND of the Fanns and Thames21 welcomed Councillor James Halden, Deputy Mayor of Thurrock to Davy Down on 26 October to see the restoration work on the river Mardyke. The event was part of London River’s Week organised by Thames21.
ELEVEN brave individuals flew like superheroes on exhilarating charity Skymax Wing Walks to help grant the dreams of children with life limiting/threatening conditions or severe disabilities. The final grand total for the two days of Wing Walking in June and September was an amazing £12,267!
