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  • Crash driver gets eight years

    RELATIVES of a father of two who died after being a passenger in a road crash broke down in court as the driver of the car was sentenced to eight year’s in prison. Gurpreet Dhillon, 29, of Langley Road, Slough, was driving a green Jaguar XK

  • Crash near Lakeside

    A HEAD on car crash led to two people being taken to hospital and a road closure. One man was sent to Basildon Hospital with a serious head injury. The blue Vauxhall Corsa and silver Renault Clio crashed on Oliver Road, Grays in the early hours of Sunday

  • Town centre punch probe

    A WOMAN was punched in the face after a row outside some shops. The fracas broke out outside the Discount Terrace shops in Grays High Street at around 2pm last Friday, November 13. During the bust-up a 39-year-old woman from Chafford Hundred was punched

  • Griffin turns back on Thurrock

    NICK Griffin is to stand for election in Barking, not Thurrock, it has emerged. The news that the BNP leader has abandoned hopes of taking the Thurrock seat at the next general election has been welcomed by the borough’s politicians. Labour group chairman

  • Grays match postponed

    TONIGHT'S match between Chelmsford City and Grays Athletic in the Essex Senior Cup has been postponed because of a waterlogged pitch.

  • Help Callum's walking dream

    A MOTHER is appealing for donations to fund a £30,000 operation to enable her disabled son to walk. Football mad Callum Branch, 6, dreams of playing the game with his friends, but can’t as his cerebral palsy means he is wheelchair bound. The Chafford

  • Two from Kalipha secures table advance for Tilbury

    While many of their rivals were forced out of action by the weather, the Dockers continued their recent unbeaten run by climbing to seventh spot in the table. The score was Tilbury 2, Ilford 0. In atrocious conditions, they took the lead after just