News in Thurrock

THURROCK Council have advised that a footpath in the west of the borough will be closed for just over 24 hours from late this evening (Saturday, 4 September).

St Clements footpath, adjacent to Porter Close and Hedley Avenue, West Thurrock, will be closed from 11pm tonight until 4am on Monday, 6 September will works take place.

PURFLEET'S Heritage and Military Centre will play host tomorrow (Sunday, 5 September) to the Royal British Legion Riders' Purfleet Bike Gathering.

The event from 10am to 3pm will feature the sale of food and drink and music all day and the bike riders will be showing their machines in competition for prizes which include 'Best Cruiser', 'Best Custom' and 'Best Sports Bike'.

TWO borough sides will be engaged in FA Cup action this weekend, and both will have to travel.

It should have been three matches, but Aveley's tie at Ilford was a very late postponement as the FA have decreed their opponents played an ineligible player in the previous round against Barking and that game is now being replayed today.

A THURROCK-based charity that carries out advocacy work across South Essex, and has been recognised with a Queens Award, will be holding its annual meeting later this month.

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CONCERNED operators and users of a village hall have arranged a pre-Christmas fundraising event to help fund new security arrangements and CCTV to help keep vandals at bay.

Thurrock Nub News recently reported on vandalism and n attempted break-in at East Tilbury Village Hall.

AN application has been submitted to Thurrock Council to build a new home in the garden adjacent to an existing home on a Grays residential estate.

The plan is to create a three bedroom semi-detached home that will be joined to the existing building at 31 Elmway in Stifford Clays.

TWO men from Grays and one from Tilbury have been arrested in connection with an incident at Festival Leisure Park in Basildon in the early hours of this morning.

At around 2.35am today (Saturday 4 September) it was reported that a car driving dangerously in the car park had hit a woman in her 20s.

VOLUNTEERS who help keep a town blooming have been out and about again today (Saturday, 4 September).

The Stanford-le-Hope Blooming Marvels have cleared up[ an area close to the town's station and have a number of new planters in place.

CELEBRATION will be the order of the day on Saturday and Sunday this weekend as members of a local charitable foundation raise awareness in Grays.

On Saturday (4 September) the Anthonia Oyindamola Folakemi Afelumo Coshare (AOFAC) Foundation will host its annual 5k walk, jog and run which will start at the Grays Baptist Church on Orsett Road at 10.30am.

THURROCK Council has announced the the doors of the Thameside Theatre are about to reopen - and there will be a panto this year!

The museum within the Thameside Complex is also to reopen.