News in Thurrock

RESIDENTS in Stanford-le-Hope have called on local administrators, landowners and motorbikers and 4x4 drivers to try and come together and finds a solution to a problem that they say may be putting lives at risk and is certainly depreciating the value of a local country park.

Earlier this week Thurrock Nub News reported on the concerns of residents who use the newly created park and open space to the rear of the Maple Park and Stanford Park housing estates.

RESIDENTS in Corringham will get the chance next week to learn more about the proposed new integrated medical centre in the town.

Construction is about to start on the project adjacent to Graham James primary school on the Sorrells.

ANXIOUS eyes continue to be kept on the quickly flowing waters of the River Hope in Stanford-le-Hope today (Friday, 29 January), with residents fearful of another occurrence of the flash flooding that brought turmoil to parts of the town a couple of weeks ago.

Since then water levels in the area have remained high and over the past 24 hours the Hope once more rose to the edge of some people's gardens and they are fearful it will spill over again.

THURROCK Council has issued a significant apology after it has been forced to admit it has fallen short of the high standards residents should expect.

Last week Thurrock Nub News reported on the arrival of a crew and cast of around 150 people to film part of a new TV series called Tailspin. For three days the crew were based at Blackshots car park and filmed in the immediate area, blocking roads and closing a layby in the process.

A CAMERA glitch brought a moment of levity to a serious moment as Thurrock Nub News continued to report on flooding problems in Thurrock at the moment - but in reality the serious nature of the situation is no laughing matter.

Nub News editor Neil Speight was out and about filming in the Mardyke Valley this morning in anticipation of floodwaters once again rising and threatening local properties.

THE Mardyke Valley from its Purflet convergence with the Thames downstream to Bulphan continues to cause concern with another flood warning issued this evening.

Though waters along the Mardyke, which were at levels unrecorded in recent memory a couple of weeks ago, had started to diminish but on Thursday afternoon floods were reported at Bulphan and North Stifford.

THE coronavirus infection rate in Thurrock continues to fall - almost as dramatically as it rose in late December and January.

Latest figures show that the borough had 419 cases per 100,000 people in the week ended 24 January. The average area in England had 323 but the gap between that average and the borough figure has diminished significantly in the past couple of weeks.

CUSTOMERS and owners of a popular Thurrock cafe will be holding their breath over a planning application which has been submitted long after the work was carried out.

Bombers Cafe on a layby Loft Hall and north of Orsett Cock roundabout was demolished and rebuilt during last year's lockdown.

THURROCK Council has given the go-ahead to plans to extend the premises of the Gates Of Praise International Christian Centre on London Road.

The approval will see a first floor extension to the buildings which make up 79 to 83 London Road and will include five meeting rooms.

A LEADING Thurrock councillor has described comments by concerned community leaders probing missing cash earmarked for local projects as 'grossly inaccurate and misleading'.

Cllr Aaron Watkins was responding to a Thurrock Nub News report over cash allocated for sports and play projects in Chadwell St Mary.