A CASH-strapped Council is targeting motorists with traffic officers patrolling residential streets in the dead of night. Read more
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A WOMAN and two men have been charged in connection with a suspected sham wedding in Tilbury. Read more
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DETECTIVES in South Ockendon are urgently appealing for witnesses to an assault on August 18 that has left a 47 year old local man with serious life threatening injuries. A man has been arrested and bailed. Read more
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THERE was a happy ending to a police search for a missing man.
Police appealed for help in tracing Gary Coombs, 44, of Benyon Path, South Ockendon, who was reported missing last Wednesday after he failed to turn up to a pre-arranged appointment. Read more
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POLICE are appealing for help in tracing a man who has gone missing from his home, something described as "extremely out of character." Read more
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THE councillor who branded his ward “Chaffrica” in a jibe at its immigrant population has been suspended by his fellow councillors. Read more
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VOLUNTEERS should play a greater role in managing their communities said a rising star of local politics in his speech in the maiden adjournment debate at Thurrock Council. Read more
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A Conservative councillor faces investigation by his own party - despite apologising for website comments about his Chafford Hundred ward that made national news.
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WITH just days to go until the Britain in Bloom Judges arrive to Judge Bulphan, the village has fallen victim to thieves. Read more
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FIREFIGHTERS had to tackle two field fires in quick succession in East Tilbury on Saturday afternoon. Read more
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POLICE are appealing for witnesses to a road crash in south-west Essex which has left a motorcyclist and his pillion passenger fighting for their lives. Read more
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A LEADING Thurrock councillor has called on the residents of Chafford Hundred to join together and help keep the area’s library open. Read more
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AN end could be in sight to the continuing problem of demand for pupils to go to a popular school. Thurrock Council is looking to spend £2.5 million on expanding Chafford Hundred Primary School. Read more
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THURROCK Council Leader, Cllr John Kent, says he wants “a full, no-holds barred debate” about proposals to save around £15 million in the council’s 2011/12 spending.
His comments, at Wednesday’s Cabinet meeting, came hours after the ruling Labour group had been blasted by Conservatives on the Council for not involving them in the budget process.
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JOBS at Thurrock Council are to be lost, a library closed to the public, playgrounds shut down and cash grants slashed to community groups in an emergency budget to go before councillors later this month. Read more
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RESIDENTS of Stifford Clays are planning to clean up one of their local parks next week. Read more
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Police have released images of potential witnesses as they investigate a reported rape in Grays. Read more
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DEVELOPERS have won a legal battle to build more than 300 homes on Green belt land at East Tilbury, prompting a leading local councillor to say he fears the “floodgates” are about to open. Read more
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THURROCK Council has announced that it is to appoint Graham Farrant, a former Chief executive of Barking and Dagenham Council, as its new Chief Executive. Read more
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THE former chairman of Thurrock Council’s planning committee, who turned the authority on its head when he quit the Conservative mainstream and allowed Labour to take control, has delivered a damning indictment on some of his former Tory colleagues and senior officers in the Council.
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