News in Thurrock

A MAN has been charged in connection with three sexual assaults in Aveley and Grays.

Detectives from Grays CID are investigating three reports from women who were sexually assaulted on the 6 and 7 December.

IN his latest address to borough residents, Thurrock council leader Cllr Rob Gledhill has once again repeated his call for local people to get vaccinated to protect themselves and others against Covid-19.

And, even though he came in for criticism at a recent full meeting of the council for not wearing a facemask himself, he stressed the importance of masks in stopping communication of the disease.

A THURROCK pub's Christmas appeal to help homeless people has received a big boost from a community charity.

The Woodlands Edge pub on Broxburn Parade in South Ockendon has pledged to undertake a pre-Christmas fundraising campaign for the locally-based is Friends of Essex and London homeless.

EAST Thurrock United will be hoping to secure a morale-boosting away win at Isthmian Premier mid-table Horsham today (Saturday, 11 December).

They travel boosted by the signing of the highly-rated Oli Spooner from Tilbury.

MEMBERS of Thurrock's Over Fifties Forum will be in party mood on Monday (13 December.

TOFF will be hosting the event from 10am to 12 noon at the Beehive Resource Centre in Grays.

PARENTS have expressed concern that a free local school bus service is about to be withdrawn – leaving village children and families with difficult choices and even the possibility of having to change schools.

Thurrock Council is hosting a consultation on the bus service it subsides that takes children from East Tilbury to St Clere's school in Stanford-le-Hope.

CONSERVATIVES have rounded on a former activist who yesterday announced his resignation as a leading official in the local Tory organisation - by saying he has fabricated his position and his relevance within the local party.

Thurrock Nub News reported on the 'resignation' yesterday (Thursday, 9 December) live on BBC Radio Essex by Charlie Sansom, who announced he was standing down as the chair of South Basildon Conservatives because he was 'sick to his stomach' of the party's leadership over Covid-19.

IN the week when it launches its Christmas drink drive campaign Essex Police has announced a significant number of arrests and convictions it made in November.

Officers arrested 133 drivers for drink drive offences and a further 77 drivers for drug driving offences.

TWO borough companies have offered their support to Thurrock Council's 'Give a Gift' Christmas campaign which provides everyone the opportunity to donate a present to a local child in need for whom Christmas can be a difficult time of year.

This week the Corringham-based InterGen power company donated £800 of Love2Shop Vouchers for presents for some of the borough's older children and Specsavers Lakeside have made a generous donation of toys too.

THERE has been an overwhelming response to a Thurrock council consultation about two nurseries it runs in Tilbury.

The future of Little Pirates and Neptune Nurseries has been in doubt as the council considers whether it can continue to provide the service and whether there is a need for it.