BOROUGH anglers have been hitting the flatfish over the new year period. Flounders have been caught in Thurrock in decent numbers, giving those prepared to wait plenty of sport. SOUTHEND PIER: Showing small whiting and dabs. Best bait is for the dabs
PARALYMPICS: Essex's Robin Womack has a medal on his mind as he steps up his preparations for the forthcoming IPC World Championships in New Zealand. The Southend-based 39-year-old will this week arrive at Great Britain’s holding camp in Auckland ahead
FOOTBALL: Southend United boss Paul Sturrock is looking to bolster Southend's on the pitch strength. He said: "January will be a busy time for us as we look to strengthen our squad for the second half of the season. "Over the last few days our whole
THIS week Down Memory Lane goes back 40 years to 1971 to see the development of the Garrison Estate in Purfleet and concerns about the preservation of some of the historic structures still left over from its military use. Local historian F. Z. Claro
IT'S with total disbelief that I read the comments of Cllr Val Morris-Cook (Gazette Letters, December 31). May I suggest she takes a look around Thurrock following the recent weather. In my area the side roads and pavements were vertically impassable
HAVING read the letter by Francesca Brooks concerning the bus service, I would like to make things a little clearer. Having been a bus driver for many years, I can understand her frustration. It’s not that bus drivers don’t respect the timetable, it
MAY we pass on our very sincere appreciation through the pages of the Gazette to all those very kind and generous townsfolk who have so readily supported our work at the Salvation Army in Grays. The continuous stream of donations into our charity shop
I WOULD like to thank the Royal Mail team from Grays for their excellent and courteous service over the Christmas period and during the recent atrocious weather. All parcels and letters were received on time with nothing going astray. I hope others
I WOULD very much like to thank everyone for their kind gestures when my father Peter Birch, who is 84-years-old, slipped over in the ice and snow and suffered a fractured dislocation of his right ankle at Derwent Parade Market, in South Ockendon, on
THE committee and members of the club were very concerned over the wording of the article in the Gazette concerning the 24 bedsits being built over our club in Clarence Road, Grays. The way people have interpreted the article is that the Conservative
YET again we are let down by this council over some snow. Why can the collections not be done later into the day, that is what a normal company would do to catch up on their work? My milkman, postman and paperboy have not missed one single day through
A GRAYS woman got an early Christmas present when she won a once-in-a-lifetime trip to be treated like a millionaire in New York. Jennie O’Sullivan and her husband will be taken by limousine to the airport, flown out to New York where they’ll stay at
THE Government recently announced the financial settlement to local authorities. Although Thurrock faces cuts in line with the need to reduce public borrowing and debt, the cut in grant is well below the average faced by most other local councils.
OPERATIONS and procedures, including the removal of gallstones and tonsils, will no longer be performed as a matter of routine across south Essex. Debt-ridden NHS South West Essex, which covers Basildon and Thurrock, has published new guidelines, scaling
GRAYS Athletic will not receive a penny from the £1.3million sale of their former striker Aaron McLean to Hull City, despite originally having a 20 per cent sell-on clause in place. The Ryman One North club would have received about £260,000
TILBURY Dockers ABC teenager Danny Monk will be fighting at Hutton on January 9 in the Essex schoolboys event. His coach, Dockers surpremo Mick Worrall, who runs the club at Athlone House in Dock Road, Tilbury said the 48kg youngster, who attends the
CRICKET: Alastair Cook said his lean summer spurred him on to his prolific Ashes series. The 26-year-old scored 189 in England’s first innings, taking him to 766 for the series, as England moved into a commanding position in a Test match they need only
FOOTBALL: GRAYS Athletic will not receive a penny from the £1.3million sale of their former striker Aaron McLean to Hull City, despite originally having a 20 per cent sell-on clause in place, writes James Colasanti. The Ryman One North club would have
A SOUTH Ockendon man has been given a suspended prison sentence after falsely claiming nearly £12,000 in benefits from Thurrock Council and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). Victor Popper, 50, of Broxburn Drive appeared at Basildon
RUGBY: RUNAWAY London One North leaders Westcliff return to action tomorrow then they head to Stevenage Town. The Aviation Way based club are currently 12 points clear at the top of the table and will be confident of continuing their fine run of results
