News in Thurrock

FOLLOWING publication of a Nub News story highlight the shocking state of Corringham Town park, it has been partially closed by Thurrock Council for maintenance.

Nub News reported on the continued poor state of the park last week, following an accident in which a local, elderly woman tripped and fell and was injured. Other falls and injuries have been reported on social media.

JUST three days after the departure of manager Keith Rowland Tilbury recorded a much-needed win in the Isthmian North.

With new interim boss Eljay Worrell at the helm Dockers took three points thanks to a last-gasp winner against visiting Bury Town at Chadfields.

A PSYCHIATRIST has detailed the life story and series of events that led up to a Grays woman killing her mother.

At Basildon Crown Court where 60-year-old Cheryl Banks is on trial for murder, consultant forensic psychiatrist Dr Alan Reid gave details of interviews he had had with Mrs Banks and he pieced together the circumstances that led to her smothering her mother to death at their shared home on Lenmore Avenue in Grays in June last year before attempting to kill herself.

POLICE have issued an appeal for help as they bid to find a man in Thurrock.

Officers are looking for Jacko McKenzie in connection with a recall to prison. The 30 year-old from Grays also goes by the name Ryan Wheeler.

AN operation to crack down on the theft of vehicles and anti-social behaviour in Thurrock saw six vehicles seized and three arrests made.

The operation featured 16 special constables and four regular officers using nine marked and unmarked cars and two motorcycles to target areas where thefts have been reported and vehicles have been driven and ridden irresponsibly on and off-road.

THE box office is open for the latest production by Thurrock's musical theatre group TOPS on Stage.

Legally Blonde the Musical will be performed at the Thameside Theatre in Grays from 16 to 19 March. You can book tickets through this link

AFTER a two year cancellation because of covid-19 the Orsett Show for 2022 is in jeopardy again, not because of the virus but a lack of sponsorship.

An appeal has gone out to the local community and business for any ideas or offers to ensure the one day family event does take place for the 114th time.

Ortu Corringham Primary School and Nursery are holding consultations ahead of plans to open a new nursery in an adapted two-storey building next to one of the academy's secondary schools, Ortu Hassenbrook Academy on Hassenbrook Road in Stanford-le-Hope.

The nursery would provide care and education for children prior to school age and be called 'Happy Tots'.

TILBURY Community Forum, which was reformed towards the end of last year and has just updated all its information via a new Facebook page .

And information is also available via its website.

A JURY listened to the harrowing moments as a shocked husband called police to inform them his wife had killed his mother-in-law - then watched footage of the dramatic and upsetting scenes when emergency services arrived at the family home in Grays.

Steve Banks arrived home on Lenmore Avenue with his son on Monday, 21 June last year to find the body of 89-year-old Winifred Grover and his wife in a semi-conscious state after taking tablets and drinking whisky in a bid to kill herself after smothering her dementia-suffering mother to death.