A CHANCE to have your antiques and objet d'art or just stuff valued free of charge is on offer next week. Auctioneers Warwick and Warwick are holding a valuation day at Park Inn Radisson, High Road, North Stifford where they will be offering valuations and general advice.
IT HAS been a journey that has taken nearly ten years but when you are a team that has vision then ten years is a single step. The award winning Thurrock Lifestyle Solutions team have been awarded the contract to provide services for people with learning difficulties.
NOW FIRST things first, everyone knows that Jimmy can be, how do we say it, a bit blue. He has been for over the fifty years that he has been in the business. His latest tour sees much-loved Jimmy coming to the very popular Corringham Village Hall on February 23rd.
THE number of people providing unpaid care for disabled, sick or elderly relatives and loved ones continues to rise. In order to meet this challenge, Thurrock Council has appointed a new organisation to provide support, information and advice to local carers.
THE Royal Opera House Thurrock Community Chorus invites men from across Thurrock to find their voice at a special Men Only taster session on Monday 21 January at 7.15pm in the Barns on the High House Production Park in Purfleet. If you have ever seen Gareth Malone’s singing plumbers and thought you would like to sing too, or if you would like a new hobby and some new friends, come along to the taster session and meet some of the Thurrock Community Chorus members.
THURROCK Art Society is holding its latest exhibition at the Swan Gallery in Horndon-on-the-Hill. The exhibition features works by a variety of borough artists including Sylvia Maney, Lyn Stone, Peter Matthews, Sharon Phillips, and June Etchells.
STANFORD'S favourite, Rylan Clark has gone back to where it all started by entering the Celebrity Big Brother House. The X Factor star has been extremely busy since he left X Factor just a few weeks ago, even appearing live on Christmas Day on Gordon Ramsay's cookery programme.
INTERNATIONAL violin virtuoso Tasmin Little will be coming to Thurrock in the New Year, working with some of the borough’s young, talented string players.
Invited by Thurrock Music Service - lead partner of the Thurrock Music Education hub (grant-funded through Arts Council England) - she will be leading master-classes in the afternoon and a concert in the evening at the Thameside theatre in Grays.
HADDON Events are hosting an Antiques and Collectibles Fair at Orsett Hall next Sunday 6 January 2013 between 10.00am and 4.00pm. Entry is £3.00 each or £2.00 for concessions.
Thurrock does a lot for charity as illustrated by a host of MacMillan Coffee mornings. The UKIP councillor Robert Ray continued to impress with his ward work in Aveley. Opportunity Thurrock was a one-stop careers fair for schools which was a great success. The Chafford Hundred Community Cookbook was launched.
MEP for Thurrock, Richard Howitt paid a visit to Thurrock Lifestyle Solutions (TLS) in Grays and was full of praise for the award winning organisation. He was joined by staff from Procter and Gamble and South East mobility who told the MEP of how they had got involved with TLS.
PUPILS at Purfleet Primary School gave a clear message to their community that bullying is wrong, at a special event hosted at the school. The event celebrated the diversity of the community and focused on the message that everyone - whoever they are and wherever they are from – are all “One Thurrock”.
THE Royal Opera House Thurrock Community Chorus sang with the Royal Opera Chorus at a special concert called Awake in Chorus recently. In this fascinating short film, members of the chorus discuss why they joined the chorus and what they have gained from the experience.
THE first event of the new look Open Vision will be held at the Swan, in Horndon-on-the-hill, on Thursday 22nd November between 7.30 and 9.30 pm, in the gallery room upstairs. The new format will continue to develop the network of artists and creatives in Thurrock and will feature a series of informal artist talks, a feature presentation as well as 'soapbox' opportunities to promote, discuss or update on opportunities, events or ideas.
COME and start the Christmas Season with festive songs and carols with the Royal Opera House Thurrock Community Chorus joining forces with musicians and vocal groups from across Thurrock for a special Christmas concert on Saturday 8 December at the High House Production Park.
