JOHN GUEST, rector of St Margaret’s, Stanford-le-Hope, takes a look at topical issues... TRICK...OR TREAT? PRETTY much all the shops and restaurants in Thurrock show evidence of ghoulish-looking pumpkins, bugeyed monsters and cackling witches
AT last week’s council meeting, I told members what Thurrock Council was doing to protect young people after the Rotherham scandal. I was proud to say Thurrock is ahead of the game and I reminded all members of their responsibilities, too. We,
THE 13-year conflict in Afghanistan has split opinion. Was it right to go out there to start with? Should we have been there so long? And will a country now be a better place for our intervention? The debate will go on. But one thing
A BY-ELECTION will take place in the Aveley and Uplands ward on Thursday, December 4. Thurrock Council made the announcement following the funeral of former ward councillor Maggie O'Keeffe-Ray, who passed away last month at the age of 62. She
AN intensive 27-week diet and hours of hard work paid off when Sam Slack was crowned British champion at the Natural Physique Association awards. The 27-year-old, from Corringham, competed at the show in Bedworth, Warwickshire. The Natural
A MASKED man in a pinstripe suit was at the centre of a terrifying burglary at a home in Grays. A woman and her three children were in the living room of their home on Haig Road when the masked man and three other suspects entered through a back
BOSSES at St Luke’s Hospice have spoken out over why they want to build a new hospice on a controversial green belt site. Plans to build 50 homes and a six-bed hospice at Malgraves Farm, off Lower Dunton Road, in Horndon-on-the-Hill, have been
