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  • Prince's Trust volunteers to start work on Grays scouts garden

    TEN volunteers from the Prince’s Trust are going to restore the back garden of 1st Grays Scout Group as part of a community project. The team of volunteers from Thurrock, who are aged between 16 and 24, chose the task as part of the Prince’s Trust

  • Grays chairman reveals the extent of financial hardship

    GRAYS Athletic would have ceased to exist within six months without drastic financial cutbacks, chairman Mike Woodward has claimed. The colourful Woodward has asked his players and staff to take 50 per cent pay cuts this week after the club's three

  • Grays chairman reveals extent of financial hardship

    GRAYS Athletic would have ceased to exist within six months without drastic financial cutbacks, chairman Mike Woodward has claimed. The colourful Woodward has asked his players and staff to take 50 per cent pay cuts this week after the club's

  • Grays legend Kightly feels for old club

    GRAYS Athletic’s most successful ever player, Michael Kightly, has expressed his shock at the club’s uncertain future. The Blue Square Premier side have been hit by the withdrawal of three major sponsors this week. But Kightly, who is

  • Pupils to get creative with half term visual arts project

    THE Gateway Academy will be leading a week long creative visual arts project during October half term to twenty five school children in years six to 11. The children from eight Excellence Cluster schools in Thurrock will take part in the project by

  • Gurkhas say hello to wider community

    THE High Sheriff of Essex met with Thurrock’s Nepalese Gurkha community as part of a Home Office initiative entitled "Not in my neighbourhood week". They met at the Thurrock Asian Association headquarters in Clarence Road, Grays. The

  • Jury joy for community cop cleared of deception

    A FORMER borough Police Community Support Officer cleared of deception this month has told of the depression that she has battled since her arrest. Saba Sheikh, 27, from Surrey, was a PCSO at South Ockendon Police Station for two years and

  • Chafford Hundred Raw Vegan Potluck Dinner party

    THE Chafford Hundred Raw Vegan Potluck Dinner Party group are holding their next meeting on Thursday at 6.30pm-10.30pm. New members are welcome and are asked to bring along something raw to share. Activities planned include a cookery

  • Chafford Hundred Raw Vegan Potluck Dinner Party

    THE Chafford Hundred Raw Vegan Potluck Dinner Party group are holding their next meeting on Thursday at 6.30pm-10.30pm. New members are welcome and are asked to bring along something raw to share. Activities planned include a cookery

  • Hammers agree to Craven final second leg delay

    LAKESIDE Hammers have agreed to delay their visit up to Coventry for the second leg of the Craven Shield Final for a week. They were originally scheduled to be at the Brandon Stadium Coventry this Friday (October 17) but this will now take place on

  • Tragic mums offer help to cope with baby death

    IMAGINE having to endure the pain of labour and giving birth after being told the baby you have been carrying inside you has died. Sadly it is something too many women in south Essex have had to go through. But for those who have lost