News in Thurrock

THURROCK Council responded to the latest breakdown at the controversial Buckingham Hill Road and Stanford Road (A1013 ) junction this afternoon (Sunday, 8 December).

The junction has been the bane of lives for Thurrock motorists for many months after new permanent lights were installed as part of the planning permission granted to Persimmon Homes to build new homes in East Tilbury.

A TIP-off from a Thurrock Council enforcement officer helped Essex Police uncover a cannabis growing operation at a borough car wash.

Four people were arrested and subsequently bailed pending further investigation after police officers raided the site on Friday (6 December) after being contacted by a council environmental enforcement officer.

THURROCK boasts a new group of world champions after the success of a local dance group this weekend.

Stanford-le-Hope based Youth Creation, who shot to fame with their performances in the 2013 Britain's Got Talent competition, were awarded first prize in their category in the BDO World Street Dance championships.

A BOROUGH youngster is just one of a number of local sea cadets going taking on a fundraising challenge.

Thurrock TS Dragon Sea Cadets are trying to raise money to buy a new minibus and have a target of £30,000!

A VILLAGE community is rallying around a man who was the victim of burglars who ransacked his home.

Messages of support and sympathy have flooded in after the raid was reported at the home of James Mays of Trent, in East Tilbury.

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BASILDON Towngate Theatre's pantomime might just present a problem for the borough council's trading standards department.

A THURROCK councillor says 'enough is enough' and has called on the local authority to do more to stop lorries dropping mud and debris on local roads - and for a general clean-up of signage.

Residents in East Tilbury and Linford have inundated ward councillor Fraser Massey with complaints about the state of the roads and in turn he has taken up the issue with Thurrock Council.

AS part of their ongoing efforts to raise police profile in Stanford-le-Hope and Corringham, officers were out and about in the two communities on special patrol yesterday (Friday, 6 December).

Officers from Essex Police's Thurrock Local Response Team conducted high visibility patrols in and around the two town centres.

POLICE are appealing for witnesses after a cash from a security box was stolen in Chafford Hundred yesterday (Friday 6 December).

A security guard from G4S was approached from behind while collecting cash from the Tesco Express in Fleming Road just after 10.40am. A five-figure sum of cash was stolen.

EMERGENCY services rushed to the Grays shopping Mall today (Friday, 6 December) after a noxious substance was discharged - leaving several shoppers unwell.

Police, firefighters and ambulance crews attended and an Essex Police spokesperson said: "We were called shortly before 12.20pm to reports that several people were feeling unwell after a container, which we believe may have contained CS or pepper spray, was discharged inside The Mall.