A THURROCK hairdresser is swapping scissors for a parachute to raise money for St Luke’s Hospice in memory of her parents.
CELEBRITIES are joining forces to take part in a charity football match in aid of the Jamie Saunders Leukaemia Awareness Group.
YOUNGSTERS who are members of a Special Needs Activity Club in Thurrock recently received awards.
LESSONS at Aveley Primary School were a bit different when a full size traditional North American Indian Tipi and Mongolian Yurt tent arrive in the school's playing fields for a week!
BONNYGATE Primary School, South Ockendon, celebrated the achievements of their pupils at their annual prize giving.
HOME fans who booed former boss Mark Stimson when he brought his League Two Gillingham side to Grays on Saturday have been condemned by home chairman and manager Mike Woodward.
THE Rotary Club of Corringham Thameside recently hosted their annual fishing day for handicapped and special needs children.
THERE is lots of good news on developments in Thurrock for local people to be very positive about. Being positive in anycase is very good for community well being. We have plans apace in Grays for
a new local college and a new community hospital together with the Royal Opera workshops in Purfleet. The new Gateway Academy will benefit the children of families in important areas of Thurrock
like Tilbury and Chadwell St Mary. I for one am very pleased with my new local church on Chafford Hundred. I have also been very impressed with local West Thurrock councillor Andy Smith and his
Labour councillor colleagues taking to proactive leadership in their ward via street surgeries. By being out there talking to everyone, councillor Smith and his colleagues are getting the views and
opinions of all the people, not just the regular few worthies.
AFTER complaints by the campaigners regarding the comments mentioned in last week’s Gazette and the uproar outside the State Cinema last Saturday morning, Councillor Barry Palmer has apologised to
“Save the State” campaigners.