THE cost of the long-delayed and secretive A13 road widening scheme soared to more than £147 million – 51 per cent higher than the expected cost, it has emerged.
THE 3.4 hectares site, located on the south-eastern side of High Lane and situated to the north-eastern edge of Stansted Mountfitchet village was planted in 1996 under a forestry commission Woodland Grant Scheme for commercial timber production
A MAJOR closure of rail ticket office closures could be about to happen after rail firm bosses have announced plans for a public consultation their closure over the next three years.
THE school will feature a double-height dining area, a performing arts hub and collaboration spaces for students. Outside, there will be landscaping, parking areas, outside lockers and playing fields.
A ‘sickening’ fraudster who scammed Rochdale council and two other local authorities out of nearly £200,000 through a Covid-19 support scheme has avoided prison reports the Local Democracy Service.
A GROUP of Tory MPs is calling on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to drastically cut migration, warning the failure to do so “risks eroding public trust” reports the BBC.
AT last Wednesday's Thurrock Council meeting, Conservative councillors voted down a Labour proposal to hold elections for all 49 councillors, next May.
THIRTY-seven woman and 34 men passed out in front of their friends and family, Chief Constable Ben-Julian Harrington, Police, Fire, and Crime Commissioner for Essex Roger Hirst, and the High Sherriff Mr Charles Bishop and Mrs Bishop at Essex Police headquarters today (Friday 30 June).
A Thurrock Council committee has rejected a recommendation to increase senior managers’ pay by 4 per cent.
The general services committee has instead opted to...
THE busy c2c Fenchurch Street rail line is set to go ticketless by the end of the year, making ticket machines and offices "surplus" to requirements it has been revealed.
