News in Thurrock

ESSEX Police are asking members of the public in Thurrock if they know of the whereabouts of a man linked to alleged stalking and harassment.

Officers are keen to speak to 35-year-old Marc Chapman who has links to Tilbury.

ACROSS Thurrock as New Year's Eve ticks down reports are coming in of local shops being inundated with potential party-goers who appear to have decided to go out and celebrate the transition from old year to new – whatever the cost.

A busy afternoon at local supermarkets has been followed by an influx of people to local shops – and as the evening as progressed, often to the sound of fireworks exploding in the background.

THE hopes of Thurrock tennis players who wished that 2021 would be a year when they could say 'let there be light' have been dashed.

An application by Thurrock Lawn Tennis Club to install new floodlights on two of its three courts at its club on Montgomery Close in the heart of the Avenues residential area in Grays has been rejected by Thurrock Council.

ALL round support has been given and planning permission granted this week for a tribute to the fallen to be mounted at Purfleet's Heritage Centre and Military Museum.

There was outrage and anger in May this year when vandals destroyed wooden soldier silhouettes at the site.

IN the wake of Thurrock Nub News' report on alleged unsafe working conditions at Thurrock Council's Oliver Close environmental depot, a worker there has come out to rubbish council claims that everything there is OK.

Our exclusive report, launched with a live Facebook post from outside the gates of the depot on Tuesday (29 December) morning, reflected whistleblowers' claims that Covid-19 was 'running rife' within the depot with many workers having tested positive for the bug.

TRIBUTES have been paid by members of Thurrock's motorcycling fraternity to a West Tilbury man who died in a crash at Bulphan earlier this week.

Brian Richardson, known to his many friends as 'Dinks', was killed after his motorbike was involved in a collision on the A128 at the junction with the old Brentwood Road adjacent to Ye Olde Plough hotel near Bulphan early on Monday evening.

AFTER ending the year by celebrating its silver anniversary, a borough pre-school says it is looking forward to the new year with optimism, even though it will start under the strictest of conditions.

Acorns pre-school operates from the Scouts Hall in Waterstone Road, Chadwell St Mary, where it can look after up to 26 children per session and was looking to end the year with big celebrations to mark its 25th anniversary.

THURROCK's Foodbank will end the year with its larders full and ready to help the borough's needy in the coming weeks.

The charity's warehouse at the Thurrock Christian Fellowship, 2-4 Chase Road, Corringham is packed with gifts and donations that arrived in the pre-Christmas period, prompting business co-ordinator and volunteer Sandra Sawle to issue a heartfelt year-ending message of thanks.

DECEMBER has proved a remarkably successful month for Britain's newest port based in Thurrock.

Parent company Forth Ports has reported a 20 per cent increase in unaccompanied freight volumes between its new Tilbury2 roll-on, roll-off facility and Zeebrugge in December.

A POLICE dog proved more than capable of stopping two car thieves in their tracks as they tried to flee a stolen vehicle.

Essex police dog Carter was called into action after officers spotted the stolen car in Thurrock yesterday (30 December). The driver initially failed to stop but then abandoned the car. They were intending to run off but decided not to when confronted by Carter.