News in Thurrock

RESIDENTS on an estate close in Little Thurrock have put together a video that highlights their neighbourly community spirit.

And they will be partying (under social distancing rules) in St Mary'S Close tomorrow.

THE latest installment of Treetops News, the weekly video produced by teacher Owen Jefferies and colleagues to keep staff and pupils in touch throughout lockdown.

Thurrock Nub News is pleased to share it with you and wishes everyone at Treetops all the very best!

THE force was certainly with a Thurrock frontline care worker on Monday thanks to a surprise 60th birthday visit arranged by borough councillor Qaisar Abbas.

Cllr Abbas has certainly been busy making sure local people get treated a bit special on their birthdays despite lockdown and his latest target was Beryl Jones, a Grays resident currently living in Dagenham where she is looking after her partner.

TWO men have been charged with breaking into the London Container Terminal in Tilbury to retrieve packages of drugs.

National Crime Agency investigators were called in yesterday (Tuesday, 5 May) after port workers spotted suspicious activity and reported it to port police.

THUROCK had just three new cases of coronavirus reported in the latest round of figures released by Public Health England, taking the borough tally to 292, while for a fourth day running the total number of local Covid-19-related deaths has remained static, at 51.

The numbers across the borough are:

STAFF across the Mid and South Essex Foundation Trust, which included Basildon and Thurrock Hospitals, have been overwhelmed by donations from local communities and businesses in response to COVID-19.

Donations include food, drink, money and personal protective equipment.

THURROCK CVS has compiled a list of thurrock businesses and suppliers that are currently offering home delivery of their goods.

Service included pet foods and supplies, fruit and veg, dairy produce and meat.

BOROUGH residents have told Thurrock Nub News they are 'tearing their hair out' in frustration after a local landmark has once again been subject to 'industrial scale degradation' in what they claim is a clear breach of planning regulations.

The site in question is Biggin Lane between Tilbury and Chadwell St Mary where historic sandy cliffs overlook the Tilbury floodplain.

AN all-girls school in Grays has put in a planning application to build an extension that will include an expanded science laboratory and inclusion room.

The plans were submitted to Thurrock Council by the Grays Convent High School off College Avenue and they outline how the extension will be added to the rear of the school and will help to expand an existing science lab.

A THURROCK-based 'virtual choir' that has members around the world has released its second tribute to the workers of the NHS.

Last month Thurrock Nub News reported on the first 'World At Home ' choir organised by Joanne Nyland-Fink who runs the borough's Starmakers Voices Community Choir and is director of Starmakers Academy based in Linford.