News in Thurrock

THANKS to local grant funding, a borough-based theatre company is about to offer young people in Thurrock the change to get involved in and online arts project.

As reported on Thurock Nub News in April award-winning theatre company, Rendered Retina, received funding from the by the Land of the Fanns Landscape Partnership Scheme through its Community Action Fund. Fo support its project ' A Salvaged Thurrock Online'.

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A RECENT inspection by Keep Britain Tidy has found that all areas of the borough, including parks, town centres and streets are cleaner and clearer than ever with inspectors finding only 3.67 per cent of sites they visited in the borough had litter on them meaning over 96% did not.

On top of this they found, 99 per cent of sites free of fly-posters, 94 per cent clear of graffiti and a whopping 99.66 per cent free of dog fouling.

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RESIDENTS in Thurrock could well get a sight of the NHS Spitfire flight when it passes over the borough this morning.

The blue Spitfire PL983 'L', a photo reconnaissance plane, will be flying across and Essex and passing over Basildon and Thurrock Hospital and then flying over Thurrock to fly over Darent Valley Hospital across the Thames in Kent.

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AMERICAN actor and singer Zac Efron highlights the huge issue of the Thames' plastic waste problem as part of a new series on Netflix airing in the UK from tomorow (Friday, 10 July).

He visited a key plastic waste hotspot along the river adjacent to Thurrock at the scenic Concrete Barges, Rainham, an area of saltmarsh where tonnes of lightweight plastic waste from the capital accumulates, forming huge plastic carpets.Thousands of single-use bottles, cotton buds and food containers wash up on the strandline at high tide, and local volunteers do their best to monitor the plastic and remove it.

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Cllr John Kent addresses the chamber

ON a long night of bitter recrimination and rampant party politicking played out on a dysfunctional and badly performing video platform the already tarnished reputation of Thurrock Council was hardly improved last evening (Wednesday, 8 July).

An extraordinary meeting of the council, called by Labour in the wake of news that the authority had borrowed more than one billion pounds to fund a controversial money-making investments policy, saw accusations and name-calling fly left, right and centre as the opposition got something of a bloody nose as they were roundly criticised by the ruling Conservative group.

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Cllr Aaron Watkins.

IN the wake of more delays in dustbin collection in the borough in recent days Thurrock council's lead councillor for the environment has apologised and given an explanation for the problems crews have been experiencing.

The borough is reflecting a nation-wide trend of increasing waste tonnage which has impacted household waste collections in Thurrock and Cllr Aaron Watkins, cabinet member for environment, said: "Extra pressures created by coronavirus mean that our waste collections are not operating as they normally would.

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