News releases issued by Thurrock Council's Corporate Communications department.
The Mayor of Thurrock, Cllr Charlie Curtis presented Bronze, Silver and Gold awards to over 50 young people from five DofE groups at Thurrock Council's annual Duke of Edinburgh's Award Presentation Evening.
The groups included OAKs, Thurrock DofE Club, Grays Convent, Stanford Open DofE centre and Grays Drop-In.
The mayor said:...
[Read More - DofE awards]
How do you get to work? How do you do your shopping or take your children to school?
Thurrock Council last year won a £5 million bid to create a Local Sustainable Transport system and part of that is to ask residents to consider what they can do.
Over the coming months...
[Read More - Travel Thurrock - it's personal]
Top international, national and local novelists, poets and writers will all be taking part in the 2012 Essex Book Festival in March.
Once again Thurrock is playing host to several events this year - in libraries, schools and arts venues.
Regular visitors to festival events may notice some exciting changes this...
[Read More - Get a taste for Book Festival]
Increasing concerns for the Coryton oil refinery has led to Thurrock Council Leader, Cllr John Kent, taking more steps to try and secure its future.
On Friday (27 January) Cllr Kent wrote to Charles Hendry MP, the Minister of State for Energy and to fellow council leaders from the South East...
[Read More - Join our bid to save refinery]
For a week, starting on Saturday (28 January), teachers from Thurrock schools will have the experience of a lifetime.
They will be travelling to India to forge closer links and build greater cultural understanding between the UK and Bhopal.
The group - Sue Lesser, Amanda Talbot, Elizabeth Jackson and Collette Hunnisett -...
[Read More - India-Thurrock links]
