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  • Essex Freemasons help Scouts clean up in Purfleet

    Essex Freemasons have donated £5,000 to the Scout Movement to refurbish washrooms – used by more than 2,500 visitors every year - at their Cherrywood campsite near Purfleet. This is the latest project to be completed by the Scouts using money from

  • Nautical welcome to town for newly renamed town

    The newly named Purfleet-on-Thames has a bright and cheery new ‘welcome’ courtesy of Purfleet-on-Thames Community Forum. This can be seen on Stonehouse Roundabout in the form of a boat the forum commissioned, funded and installed ten years ago.

  • Fundraising to help build new centre to save sick seals

    A WILDLIFE hospital is calling on support from animal lovers to help build a dedicated treatment centre for seals – just weeks after a baby seal died. South Essex Wildlife Hospital has applied for funding for the project multiple times, but with

  • Council planning new autism support for borough residents

    Thurrock Council is considering taking on a new autism service that would help prevent people from being sent out of the borough for support. The authority could take control of a supported housing service that is being built on Medina Road in

  • Stanford-le-Hope Station work set to resume after delay

    Work on redeveloping Stanford-le-Hope station could soon resume following a series of setbacks. Thurrock Council is looking to regenerate the railway station with new passenger facilities including toilets and retail space. The problems were