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  • Lee Hurst set to wow crowds in Grays show

    COMEDIAN Lee Hurst will be at Grays’ Thameside Theatre next month – bringing Essex’s “best kept secret” back again. The Local Comedy Gig sold out within 48 hours the first time the They Think It’s All Over star staged it in Essex, and it’s continuing

  • Down memory lane: Enjoy 1939 colour gem

    This week in Down Memory Lane we travel across Thurrock and enjoy a rare colour photo of Shell Haven station on the Corringham light railway, taken in April 1939. An Avonside 0-6 OST is coupled to a four-wheel ex London, Tilbury & Southend

  • Resident prosecuted and fined for continued noise nuisance

    A Purfleet resident has been prosecuted and fined for continued noise nuisance. On Friday 8 March, David Kerr of Marine Court, Purfleet, was ordered to pay a £270 fine, £500 costs and a £30 victim surcharge at Basildon Magistrates Court. He