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Photojournalist Sean Smith has spent the last 12 months documenting the Thurrock community that operates and uses some of the busiest Trussell Trust food banks in the country

Ronnie-Lee Gray, from Tilbury, made the call shortly after his mother Becky became unconscious at their home, earlier this month.

Marking the anniversary of the Empire Windrush docking at Tilbury, the hour-long programme will tell the story of those who left the Caribbean for a new life in Britain

In the twilight hours of June 21 1948, a weathered five-deck troopship transporting 1,027 passengers moored off Gravesend on the south bank of the river Thames. That evening, immigration officials would begin carefully processing those aboard. The following afternoon, passengers would walk off the gangplank, finally stepping foot on British…

HMT Empire Windrush docked in Tilbury, Essex, 75 years ago this week in answer to a Government call to the Commonwealth to help rebuild the United Kingdom but hundreds were wrongly detained

The 800 West Indians who walked down the gangway at Tilbury to make new lives in England in June 1948 had been encouraged to think of the country as their motherland. The literary contribution of the Windrush generation is just one example of how Caribbean-British people enriched the nation, but…

A photographic exhibition will share stories to mark the 75th anniversary of the arrival of the Empire Windrush at Tilbury Docks.

The third part of Jill Mead’s look at a year in the life of the great River Thames takes in the waterway over the course of some of the colder months

Inside the protests taking place at the online giant which is accused of exploiting workers and awarding derisory pay offers