MIKE Stanley described playing the final 12 minutes for Samoa against England on Saturday as an “amazing” experience. The former Thurrock Rugby Club fly-half, who went to Corringham’s Gable Hall School, came on towards the end of his side’s 29-
A LEADING tribute band is heading to Thurrock this week. Totally Take That is set to hit the stage at Orsett Hall tomorrow (Friday). The four-piece is regarded as the world’s No1 Take That tribute band, having performed in various countries
TWO-TIME Olympian Daniel Awde has vowed to be the “people’s champion” after being overlooked for funding by British Athletics bosses – and a south Essex osteopathy clinic has got right behind his mission. Cedar Hall Clinics, which has bases in
GRAYS Athletic manager Jody Brown said he saw a different side to his team after they ground out a 2-0 win against neighbours Billericay Town. Athletic scored twice in the last ten minutes on Saturday to secure their first league points in a month
THERE was contrasting fortunes for Thurrock Hockey Club’s two premier teams with the men winning handsomely and the women on the wrong end of a heavy defeat. The men’s first team crushed bottom side University of Essex 7-0 to record just their
THURROCK’S injury crisis meant that they had 11 first choice players unavailable for their London One North encounter at home to Colchester. But the T’s kept high-flying Colchester honest before eventually going down 28-10. Colchester had the
THREE swimmers from Thurrock Swimming Club have been called up to represent Essex at the Junior InterCounty competition in Luton next February. Gracie Mae Martin, 11, Jamie Speers, 11, and Mide Olajide, 10, will help Essex defend their title which
GRAYS-BORN comedian and actor Russell Brand is heading back home to promote his new book, Revolution. The Essex funnyman, who makes references to Lakeside Shopping Centre in the first chapter of the new book, will be walking through its doors next
Police are appealing for information about a burglary in Stanford-le-Hope where property worth over £35, 000 was stolen. Eight high value bicycles, electrical items and jewellery of sentimental value to the victim were stolen by theives during
POLICE are searching for a man after a shotgun was fired in Tilbury. Police were called at about 1.20am on Sunday November 23 after a shotgun was fired outside an address in Wellington Road. The incident is believed to be connected to a domestic
OFFICERS in Grays investigating an assault at the Thurrock Fake Festival in July are appealing for witnesses. The incident happened on Saturday July 26 at 11.30pm at the festival which was taking place on the Blackshots playing fields. The
YOU can seldom be out on Thurrock’s roads without coming across a distinctive blue Ensignbus. Now, the firm which carries the borough’s folk in and around this neck of the woods has been voted the best independent bus operator in the country.
SO, the toll booths on the Dartford Crossing are going at last. They will not be mourned. Now, those who believe they were responsible for much of the painful congestion at the M25 pinch-point will have the chance to see if they were right.
FROM this Sunday, motorists will no longer pay for the Dartford Crossing at its toll booths. Dart Charge, a system which will mean motorists have to pay for the crossing before or after they have used it, goes live at 6am on Sunday. Vehicles
