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  • Pedestrian suffers serious leg injury in hit and run

    POLICE are appealing for witnesses or any with dash cam footage following a crash in Tilbury where a pedestrian sustained a serious leg injury. It was reported a car and a pedestrian were in collision in Melba Gardens at around 3.45pm on Friday

  • Missing Thurrock man found

    Essex Police are no longer looking 54-year-old Martin Arnold who was missing in Thurrock. Martin was reported missing on September 10 and was last known to be in the Aveley area. He has now been found and Essex Police has thanked the public

  • Teens robbed by knife-wielding gang in park

    Police are investigating after two boys were robbed at knifepoint by a gang of other boys in Grays. Officers were called at around 5.45pm on yesterday with reports two 14 year-old boys had been approached by six other boys in the Delafield Open

  • Man helped import drugs worth £114m

    A CORRUPT agency worker at the Port of Tilbury, who helped import cocaine worth £114million from South America, has been jailed for 14 years and five months. Michael Fowler, 60, from Stanford-le-Hope, was arrested by National Crime Agency officers

  • Football fan bags £250,000 windfall

    A FOOTBALL fan is celebrating winning £250,000 after correctly predicting scores for six matches on Saturday. Jason Hodges, 49, had changed TV channels to watch England on Saturday afternoon when his big win was announced live on Sky Sports.

  • Nightmare neighbour brought to heel - editor's comment

    EXCLUDING Brexit, the story that has generated by far the most letters on this page in recent times has been the sad case of up to 20 dogs being kept in poor conditions in a home in Chadwell St Mary. It is therefore great to hear that the dogs’

  • Fake Instagram account mocked murdered boy, 14

    A FAKE Instagram account was set up pretending to be a 14-year-old boy who was brutally murdered. The family of Breck Bednar claim the social media company would not remove it unless Breck made the request – despite him passing away five years ago