AVELEY and Kenningtons Community Forum and annual meeting will take place tomorrow (Tuesday, 22 February).
It will be hosted at Aveley FC on Park Lane from 7 to 8.30pm and will be followed by a public meeting featuring ward councillors.
THURROCK Police have used social media to highlight a busy weekend of activity in the borough.
Yesterday (Sunday, 20 February) officers conducted operations across the district in relation to nuisance and stolen motorbikes.
THURROCK Council's monthly meeting will once more be held at South Essex College this week, with the new multi-million pound civic office still not ready for use two months after it was scheduled to open.
Wednesday's meeting will see the council debate a number of important issues including the coming budget - but unless Tories on the authority have a change of heart it is unlikely to be completed.
Updated: A dog owner was badly bitten in a rogue dog attack
By Neil Speight
21st Feb 2022 | Local News
A WOMAN required hospital treatment after being bitten by a dog that had attacked her pet, which was also badly injured. She has since been referred to a specialist unit to deal with her wounds.
The incident happened around 1.30pm on the Parkside field close to Tilbury town centre on Sunday, 20 February.
"Yet another wolf dressed in a sheep's clothing" - Mr Perrin is a little peeved
By Peter Perrin - Nub News contributor
21st Feb 2022 | Opinion
Occasional Nub News columnist and regular local commentator on Thurrock Council affairs, Peter Perrin, has been angered this week by the switch from Labour to Tory of a borough councillor and he delivers his scathing personal opinion on the merits of some of those elected to local office.
____________________ WHILE the defections of ex-members of UKIP/Thurrock Independents, Graham Snell, Luke Spillman, Jack Duffin and Allen Mayes, to the Conservative Party were disgraceful acts of betrayal by egotistic, self-promoting, money-grabbing scallywags, the defection of Cllr Qaisar Abbas caps them all for deception, sheer hypocrisy and betrayal of the Labour Group, members of the Thurrock Labour Party and others who voted for him as a Labour councillor. It even surpasses the defection of another Labour-elected self server, Cllr Abbie Akinbohun. Cllr Abbas said: "I am left with no choice except to resign from the Labour Party. Thurrock Labour is riddled with bullying, discrimination, islamophobia and nepotism. "I will continue to fight for and protect the best interests of residents of Purfleet-on-Thames, West Thurrock and South Stifford and wider communities I have worked with over the years as a Labour councillor." Cllr Abbas decides to quit the Labour Party and join the Tories immediately after failing to be re-selected to stand as a Labour councillor in the May 2022 Local Government elections. I can only deduce that had Cllr Abbas been selected by the Labour Party to contest his seat we would have heard nothing of his allegations. Cllr Abbas, prove your allegations and name those members of the Thurrock Labour Party you say are guilty of bullying, discrimination, islamophobia and nepotism. If you decline, do not be surprised if it is concluded that you are using your Islamic ethnicity as a shield from criticism by accusing your critics of Islamophobia. Shame on you. In my opinion, your decision to defect to the Conservatives was motivated by nothing other than pique at not being selected to stand for re-election as a Labour councillor. Your decision says more about the failings of your character than it does about your perceived failings of the Thurrock Labour Party. Cllr Abbas, your scurrilous and unfounded accusations are unworthy of the gentleman I thought you were. Finally, Cllr Abbas I am inclined to the view that your claim that you "will continue to fight for and protect the best interests of residents of Purfleet-on-Thames, West Thurrock and South Stifford and wider communities" sounds somewhat hollow and would be a truer reflection of your motive to defect if it were amended to say: "I will continue to fight for and protect MY best interests. Full stop."
The clock is ticking: Call for residents to find time and help secure future of open spaces like previously threatened Parker Road park
By Neil Speight
21st Feb 2022 | Local News
RESIDENT groups and campaigners across the borough are encouraging local people to take part in a consultation process currently being run by Thurrock Council to guide its policies on open spaces.
The information will help the council formulate its Local Plan, a formal document that will guide development in the borough until 2040. The plan has been much delayed but the council now hopes to complete publicatiuon and publish within the next couple of years.
New forum will form a bridge for SEND families with council and healthcare providers
By Neil Speight
21st Feb 2022 | Local News
A LAUNCH event will take place early next month for an organisation offering support to families of children or young adults who have special educational needs or disabilities.
Thurrock SEND Family Forum is the newly formed Parent Carer Forum in Thurrock and says its aim is to listen to the views and experiences of families in Thurrock.
HIGH winds and the incoming threat of Storm Franklin has prompted closure of the QEII bridge this afternoon (Sunday, 20 February).
It was closed at 2.30pm and motorists have been warned it could remain closed until well into tomorrow.
Dockers part company with manager and assistant after latest defeat
By Neil Speight
20th Feb 2022 | Local News
A LITTLE more than three months after joining Tilbury FC as the Dockers' new manager, former Northern Ireland international Keith Rowland, and the club have parted company.
Following today's (Saturday, 19 February) 1-0 defeat to Hashtag United, the Isthmian North club released a brief social media message announcing the departure of Rowland and his assistant Glen Robson by 'mutual consent'.
Thurrock faces more strike action after council workers - already facing 250 job cuts - are told they will get less than half the rate of inflation in new round of pay negotiations
By Neil Speight
20th Feb 2022 | Local News
THURROCK Council be facing more strike action by council workers after the authority announced it planned to give front line workers a pay rise well below inflation – while senior managers get a slightly lower increase but in real teams will pocket much more cash.
The council has proposed lower pay scale workers will get a 2.5 per cent increase, while higher paid staff would get 2.25 per cent. The current national rate of inflation is 5.4 per cent and household costs are forecast to soar duiring the coming year.
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