An online petition has been launched by a borough resident to try and persuade Thurrock Council to bring back weekly bin collections. Currently the council operates a rotational fortnightly service for general waste (green/black), recycling (blue) and garden waste (brown) collections - with residents having to pay extra for the brown bin collections.

Police investigating an incident in a Grays pub in May have made a belated appeal for information after a woman suffered life-changing injuries. It happened on Saturday, 23 May in the car park of the Bull pub on Dock Road. A grey Ford Ranger pick up was involved in a collision with a 29-year-old woman in the car park in Dock Road before the vehicle left the scene.

A Reform candidate in an upcoming Thurrock by-election has come under fire over racist, misogynistic and offensive social media posts. Jason Mitchell, standing in the Grays Riverside by-election, has been slammed online and by the Thurrock Labour group after the historic Facebook posts – seen by the Local Democracy Service – emerged.