Lifestyle

COMMUNITIES across the East of England are set to benefit from £24.7million of Government funding for cycling and walking schemes, helping to boost local...

A BOROUGH-based organisation is looking for help as it provides independent advocacy services in Thurrock, supporting people to have their say in decisions about their health, care and wellbeing.

RNID, the charity supporting people who are deaf, have hearing loss or tinnitus is looking for volunteers to support our vital work across the UK.

THREE good causes have received payouts from National Highways' Lower Thames Crossing Community Fund.

ONE of Essex’s largest and most popular family events will return to Horndon-on-the-Hill on June 25th & 26th. Horndon-on-the-Hill Feast & Fayre – a traditional event that harks back to mediaeval times when King John granted the village permission to stage a ‘mighty feast’ in the Magna Carta - was revived back in the seventies and celebrates the 40th year since its revival this year.

THURROCK artist Tim Harrold's exhibition looks at the Art of the Diorama. Full details below.

TEAM members from the Amazon fulfilment centre in Tilbury will feature in a video on the company’s UK social media page cheering on their countries ahead of the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest final (13th May 2023).

COME along to the British Country Show Kent in 2023 to held at the fabulous venue of Wings of Morning Field (part of the St Clere Estate) in Wrotham for a wonderful day out. Set to be extravaganza with so many things to see and do.

AN EVENING of celebration took place on Thursday 4th May at the Seabrooke Community House as representatives of the Essex Boys & Girls Clubs, the Jack Petchey Foundation and local volunteers celebrated the achievements of local kids from across the borough. 

THE Broadway Theatre Barking is delighted to announce its first ever Neil Young Day on Saturday 3 June 2023. This celebrates the recording in 1971 at the theatre which was then known as The Barking Assembly Hall, of two tracks on Young’s biggest selling album, Harvest.

ACCOR, a world leading hospitality group, has announced two new Mercure hotels in the UK – in Northampton and Thurrock – building upon the Group’s already strong UK footprint. Both signings will be a joint venture between real estate fund manager Frogmore and C1 Capital Partners.

A 23-year-old Corringham woman will be competing in a national final next month and is hoping for support from local businesses as she pursues her career.

Supporting people with grief and loss this Dying Matters week This Dying Matters Awareness Week (8th – 14th May) St. Luke's Hospice is encouraging our community to talk...

THE RSPCA is renewing its warning about the dangers to wildlife of netting, after a little fox cub was strangled to death in a back garden football net.

EMIRATES, the world’s largest international airline, has today reintroduced its double daily service to London Stansted (STN), following increased demand for international travel. Emirates...