News in Thurrock

Thurrock Nub News editor Neil Speight tries to get to grips with an increasingly multi-layered, geographically unaccountable and - quite frankly - financially puzzling structure of local NHS health care. This is a news report that contains opinion and we invite our readers to contribute their own thoughts via our Facebook page.

A personal opinion piece by Thurrock councillor Martin Kerin. Thurrock Nub News always welcome local thoughts, views and commentary on issues of the day.

Local historian and chair of Thurrock History Society Susa Yates continues her recollections during the Covid guideline weeks recalling childhood trips to Southend.

DO you remember in the good old days, when we were allowed to meet in each other's houses and go round in groups as large as we liked? Well about a year ago just a few months before lockdown started when we could do that I went out for a drive on a Sunday afternoon and found myself just a few yards from the River Crouch in South Fambridge.

This small Essex hamlet has a lovely old listed building called The Old Ferry House. It was whilst looking at this old house that an elderly gentleman approached me and began talking to me.

Susan Yates, chair of Thurrock Historical Society, reminds us in her latest article that history is all around us and imagination and memories can help lift the spirits.

Susan Yates, chair of Thurrock Historical Society continues her occasional series of articles about the borough's history and in this piece turns her attention to a recently restored and absolutely impressive building - the London International Cruise Terminal at Tilbury.

COMMENT – by Thurrock Nub News Editor Neil Speight

TOTAL incompetence or a willful attempt to deceive the public!

Dreamers Of The Day

"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible." Lawrence of Arabia

Readers' Letters

I READ your story today (Monday, 27 July) about the new pedestrian and cycle measures.

Mico Bienvenu, the Director of Thurrock-based Christian Care Homes is an occasional contributor to Thurrock Nub News with his views on the care industry and the NHS.

WE recently celebrated 72 years of the National Health Service, the pride of our nation. We applaud its achievements, despite numerous reorganisations over the years. Many or if not most of us have benefited from its services at some time in our lives.