I write in response to Vigilante alert.' I have lived in Grays for nearly 50 years - all my life, mainly on the Belmont. Grays is now a horrible place to walk round after 3pm. The streets are filthy, the people are nearly all foreigners, I walk
OVER the past few months the Gazette has published two articles relating to the Gateway Academy in Tilbury's efforts to highlight the issue of intolerance through studying the Holocaust. The students had the unique experience of meeting Trude Levi
WHY do we have to give up green belt land in Aveley which you can never replace? Just to make fat profits for developers. They are using two brownfield sites Marley works site and Fords to build houses. It looks looks good on paper but they want
A THURROCK school is celebrating news that it has received a £356,493 grant to build an artificial floodlit football pitch. St Clere's School at Stanford-le-Hope will get the cash from the Football Foundation, the UK's largest sports charity. The
PRIME Minister Gordon Brown was the surprise guest at today's official opening of the Essex Cardiothoracic Centre at Basildon and Thurrock Hospital. The unannounced visit delighted hospital staff, whose Chief Executive Alan Whittle said: "On behalf
COMMUNITY groups, schools and churches in Thurrock are once again being asked to support Operation Christmas Child which this week launches its 2007 appeal in Essex. The charity collects gift-filled shoeboxes to distribute to needy children at Christmas
AN incident involving a motorcyclist and a car caused delays on the Manorway in Stanford-le-Hope this morning. An ambulance crew attended the scene by the roundabout connecting the Manorway to the A13 at 8.15am. The motorcyclist, a 47-year-old man
COUNCILLORS have heaped praise on the police after deeming a crime prevention initiative a big success. Aveley councillor Wendy Herd says an alcohol control zone introduced in the spring has made a big difference to life in the town. She said: "
TWO fire crews were called to flats in Tilbury after a blaze broke out in a hallway. One flat in Hume Close was affected by the fire but everyone was accounted for when crews arrived on the scene at around 10am this morning. One hose reel was used
TO the moron who smashed my car window, in the car park of the Emmanuel Church, Sleepers Farm Road on Wednesday, September 19. Just what pleasure did you get out of smashing my window? Did you not see children's car seats in the back - which were covered
A MULTI-million pound development of luxury apartments is set to become a landmark in the heart of Grays. Tensquared is a Bellway Homes development of 100 studio, one-bedroom and two-bedroom properties, in Hogg Lane next to Morrisons supermarket.
A THURROCK man jailed after undercover cops smashed a drugs ring operating out of a fish and chip shop has had his jail term cut on appeal by top judges. Ercan Irki, 36, of Brooksbourne Drive, South Ockendon, worked in the fish bar, in north London
A POSITIVE attitude is the secret to a long life according to Annie Carter who has celebrated reaching her century. Annie Carter, of Monnow Road, Aveley turned 100 years old on Wednesday. She is set to mark the occasion with 28 of her family members
THURROCK-born writer, Martina Cole, will be visiting WH Smith at Lakeside Shopping Centre on Saturday to sign copies of her brand new novel, Faces'. Martina's latest gangland thriller is the thirteenth in her series of crime novels based in and around
PLANNING consent has been granted to St. Luke's Hospice on a property at Lampits Hill, Corringham, to open a Community Support Centre. This new venture will run as a satellite to the main Hospice at Nethermayne Basildon, and will be called 'St Luke's
A MAN was left with a fractured eye socket after a row at a petrol station. The 41-year-old man from Chafford Hundred was at the Sainsbury's Service Station in Burghley Road, Chafford Hundred, when he got into a row with another man over an air line
A MAN was left with a fractured eye socket after a row at a petrol station. The 41-year-old man from Chafford Hundred was at the Sainsbury's Service Station in Burghley Road, Chafford Hundred, when he got into a row with another man over an air line
DRIVERS in Thurrock are to be targeted in a drive to get them to stop for school crossing patrols. The patrols will be wearing orange fluorescent and reflective tarbards over their uniform with the message "Stop means "Stop means Stop" for the whole
POLICE have issued an alert to schools across south Essex following a spate of thefts in which computer equipment worth thousands of pounds has been stolen. There have been ten reported incidents at schools since the beginning of July; the most significant
