RESIDENTS of Tilbury will be able to pay their respects to one of the town's most popular figures today (Tuesday, 26 May) when the funeral cortege of Peter Hewitt MBE leaves his home.

Peter died in the early hours of Thursday, 7 May), passing away peacefully at Basildon Hospital after a lengthy battle with illness. His death prompted a host of messages of sympathy and many stories about him as people from across Thurrock remembered his work for the Tilbury community.

Becasue of coronavirus, attendance at his funeral is limited but his funeral cortege will pass through Tilbury and local people are being invited to line the streets to pay tribute.

The cortege will leave Byron Gardens at 10.30am and the cortege will proceed down Brennan Road towards Civic Square.

It will encircle Civic Square passing the clock tower and then proceed down St Chad's Road to Chadwell St Mary cemetery.