The Tilbury on Thames Trust has taken delivery of two new simulators to deliver the ‘Attention to Logistics’ training programme. ‘Attention to logistics’ is a new initiative by the Tilbury on Thames Trust to provide training opportunities for service veterans to attain jobs in the logistics...
Disability rights campaigners have today called on the Government to make Changing Places toilets compulsory in new buildings to ensure that all people with disabilities can have access to a basic right – the use of a toilet. Without a Changing Places toilet available, disabled children...
Secretary of State for Health, Jeremy Hunt visited Tilbury this week to hear about the partnership between Thurrock Council and the NHS to deliver new health medical centres across Thurrock and see the site of the Tilbury Integrated Medical Centres opening in 2020. The Secretary of...
The latest employment figures have revealed that over 1.65m jobs have been created across Britain in the ‘IT and Business Services’ sector since 2010, with it being the main driver for growth in nine out of the 11 nations and regions over that period. The East...
The Mayor of Basildon David Harrison, got on his bike today with SnapFitness 24/7 in Basildon to fundraise for his Charities - Be Child Cancer Aware and the Polly Parrot Appeal for the children's Wards at Basildon Hospital. Mr Harris joined staff and members of the...
A hot meals service has officially launched at the George Hurd Centre following a request from members. Basildon Council’s Housing and Community Committee agreed in December to extend the catering service at the centre beyond a tea bar after a survey was carried out with members...
Essex Housing has started work on a 26-home regeneration of taxpayer-owned land that has been empty for 12 years. Contractor Duncan Cameron Hutchinson Ltd has started work on 15 two-bed and 11 one-bed apartments, eight of which will be affordable, on land in Waltham Glen, off...
Basildon Council has been working closely with the police and Essex Countywide Traveller Unit (ECTU) following a number of unauthorised traveller encampments in the borough since the weekend. Travellers who formed an unauthorised encampment at Hannakins Farm Community Centre last week moved on to Radford Crescent car...
Stephen Metcalfe, MP for South Basildon & East Thurrock, encourages local secondary schools to go sky high with a national rocketry competition to inspire the next generation of rocket scientists. This week in Parliament Stephen Metcalfe joined the UK school finalists from 2017, to find out...
More than £55,000 has been earmarked for CCTV equipment to improve safety at parks and community facilities as part of Basildon Council’s proposed budget. A £700,000 investment programme for local communities, to be funded from available reserves, includes the installation of CCTV at Wickford Memorial Park,...
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