Jan 21, 2013 · A NEW health centre improving the lives of people in Thurrock is a step closer to opening, with progress being shown to local elected...

A SPECIALIST education team is helping turn Thurrock children’s lives around reports the Local Democracy Reporter. Thurrock Virtual School has almost 300 children on its...

IN a heartfelt effort to raise awareness of children’s mental health, Essex-based charity Get Started Art, supported by Essex Freemasons, has distributed over 50,000...

CHELMSFORD-based developer Barratt and David Wilson Homes has donated £1,500 to Roxwell Pre-school, a charity dedicated to providing high-quality care and education for young children...

A SPECIALIST education team is helping turn Thurrock children’s lives around reports the Local Democracy Reporter. Thurrock Virtual School has almost 300 children on its...

Jan 8, 2025 · THURROCK Council is set to hike council tax by almost 5 per cent as it battles rising costs and its recovery from financial ruin reports the Local Democracy Reporter. The rise is an improvement on last year’s 7.99 per cent and comes as the council confirms its required savings target for 2025/26 of £18.2million has been […]

Introduction YourThurrock.Com is an on-line newspaper covering every aspect of life in the borough. Launched in Sept 2008, the site publishes over 3,000 stories a year and has filmed 7,000 news items in twelve years. Thurrock is a rich quarry of news but the borough is also at a fascinating crossroads in its history and […]

Dec 21, 2024 · MORE than 1,000 people in Thurrock will spend Christmas without a permanent home a charity has claimed as extra government funding for the borough is announced reports the Local Democracy Reporter. Housing charity Shelter suggests 354,000 people in England are homeless, a 14 per cent jump from this time last year. In Thurrock, Shelter estimates […]

Dec 2, 2024 · THURROCK councillors have called a decision to delay the borough’s local plan a “developers’ charter” which leaves them powerless to prevent homes being built on green belt reports the Local Democracy Reporter. Thurrock’s local plan will determine where homes and businesses are needed for decades to come but it will not now be published until […]

Dec 3, 2024 · THE Boundary Commission has released its final recommendations for change to Thurrock’s electoral wards – and has acceded to local requests to include local place names including Belhus and Homesteads in ward titles. Tilbury will also retain its Riverside and St Chads place names reports Thurrock Nub News. Originally the local names were planned to […]