These are the County Council candidates for the Castle Point divisions. Canvey Island East Sam Aubrey UK Independence Party (UKIP) Dave Blackwell Canvey Island Independent Party Paul Edmund Chaplin Liberal Democrats Maggie McArthur-Curtis Labour Party Chas Mumford Conservative Party Canvey Island West Jay Blissett Conservative Party Ian Anthony Donald Gale […]
Back last February we wrote about the food hygiene ratings for restaurants, cafes etc in our district. At that time there was only one premises in our district with a food hygiene rating of zero out of five. But if you look now at the Food Standards Agency website you […]
The shortlists for the Rochford and Castle Point Sports Awards have been announced on the District Councilwebsite. The two names for Rochford Sports Personality of the Year are: Kristian Brown – athletics and Taylor Carter – golf One of the people presenting the awards at the Gala Evening, on November […]
The District Council’s Review Committee met last night to hear two presentations on health and care in Rochford and Castle Point.. They were unusually interesting – although too detailed to summarise here. Also full marks to the Labour chair of the committee, Jerry Gibson, for allowing the public to ask […]
The Daily Mirror has been looking at the private landlord companies that, overall, receive billions of pounds of housing benefit payments from the government each year. In particular they focused on UKIP’s housing spokesman, whom they state receives ?800,000 of housing benefit money each year from Haringey council. However the […]
Sereena Davey was born in Essex and attended her first primary school in Chelmsford. She grew up in north Hampshire but returned to the county to study for a degree and Masters at the University of Essex. Sereena has had a long career in public affairs helping companies and organisations […]
From the website of the Essex Wildlife Trust: Urgent – Help us save Cottage Plantation: a fantastic woodland site. We have just 12 weeks to raise ?44,000 towards the purchase of Cottage Plantation – a fantastic woodland site in Daws Heath. Cottage Plantation is in a complex of ancient woodlands […]
The Conservative leader of Southend Council, Nigel Holdcroft,? writes here: I attended the Local Government Association’s Annual Assembly and Conference in Manchester last week and Lord Heseltine was a lead speaker. His comments were generally well received and it was interesting that he stressed once again his belief that the […]
Did you know Rayleigh used to have its own speedway team? [youtube_sc url=”http://youtu.be/4eY4J-kNv9Y” width=”420″ height=”236″] “Rayleigh,? as I said,? in general was a really happy atmosphere track”
Some good news today nationally! There has been a surprise fall in unemployment . Youth unemployment is also down , as the Guardian explains: The ONS data also showed that youth unemployment improved, with the number of 16 to 24-year-olds out of work falling below a million in the three […]
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Essex suffers a bit from stereotypes of white stiletto heels and crass behaviour. So it’s good to see a thoughtful article in the New Statesman that gives a rounded view of our county. Everything from weapons research in Chelmsford to the rare insects and orchids of Canvey…. If you have […]
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