Since the General Election the ConDems have been busy ditching all sorts of pre-election promises. Increasing VAT, Fuel Duty, trebling university Tuition Fees and scrapping Education Maintenance Allowance will have a negative effect on the living standards of many families on Thurrock.
It is anticipated that the protests will start at 10am on Saturday at Coryton Oil Refinery, The Manorway in Stanford le Hope. Further disputes are anticipated in Grangemouth, Middlesborough and South Wirral.
“It really does take callous thieves to do this to someone, and I am urging anyone that was in the area that saw these three, or knows who did this, to come forward to police. Thankfully this type of robbery is quite rare in this area, and we have been carrying out house to house enquiries and reviewing CCTV to see if it will give us any clues.”
A TRIBUTE to music legend Roy Orbison is on at the Thameside Theatre in Grays this March. Barry Steele and his band will be paying homage to the singer, who was at his peak between 1961-64, at the Orsett Road theatre on Saturday, March 26 at 7.30pm.
"When fire crews arrived at the incident they quickly extinguished the fire in the tattoo shop. A woman who lived in the flat above the shop managed to escape from her flat, she suffered from smoke inhalation as the smoke had entered her property. Fire crews gave oxygen therapy to the woman in her forties and she was left in the care of the Ambulance Service.
This will be an interesting year for UKIP at the ballot box and especially in Thurrock. Clive Broad gained 20% of the vote in the Stifford Clays ward and Tim, himself made a great impression in Aveley. They don't need a landslide, just a gentle nudge to obtain their first UKIP councillor in the borough.
Max Cornhill forced a Kris Newby cross past Sudbury's besnooded keeper Nicky Eyre after 18 minutes and Newby effectively settled the game with two superb goals in the last eight minutes of the first half. They took his league tally to 17, second only to Leatherhead's Greg Andrews on 21, and he now has a real chance of following Martin Tuohy and Sam Higgins to become the third successive East Thurrock man to capture the award for the league's top scorer.
LETTERS detailing a violent confrontation were found underneath the bed in Maidstone where the teen accused of murdering Daniel "Dave Thomas was "being harboured", court heard today (Tuesday). The letters were read out to the jury at Chelmsford Crown Court on the fifth day of the trial of Priscilla Scamp, 18, Centurion Way, Purfleet, who is accused of murdering Daniel Thomas, 59, in a flat at 38a Darnley Road, Grays at or near to April 14th, last year.
Abiola Uju Kate Iwelu-Ogunkoya (also known as Thelma Adedipe), 24, and her 30-year-old husband Akintayo Rotimi Adedipe had between them admitted charges relating to housing and council tax benefit and dishonestly furnishing a false document at an earlier hearing in August 2010.
In most cases, ECFRS is unable to help as the service only deals with flooding incidents where life is at risk. When flooding is caused by rain - as was the case overnight - pumping the water from a person's home or garden does not solve the problem. It simply moves it to the next home or garden or it floods straight back in as it is being pumped.
Other future events include a 6-week yoga course at Bulphan School, on Thursdays in March and the first week in April: only £10 for the whole course. In February, yoga teacher Karen de Villiers will give us a taster. Kath Edwards will also have jewellery for sale £1 - £10. We have a coach trip to the Olympic site in May and hope to begin our walking, cycling and swimming activities again in the Spring.
Being a carer for Thurrock means you will be fully supported from the time of enquiry and throughout your fostering career. There are lots of opportunities for training and a great selection of courses. Carers also have the full support of their own social worker on a day to day basis and access to a duty team for out of hours enquiries as well as the support foster carers provide to each other.
At a meeting of the Thurrock Thames Gateway Development Corporation's (DC) planning committee yesterday (Monday), committee members were satisfied that there had been a satisfactory response to the suggested conditions discussed at the meeting in December.
Truth is, Market may lose more points once the fall-out from Leyton's departure from the league becomes clear but the truth is that with East Thurrock thirteen points ahead of third place, this is, probably a two-horse race.
