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News published October 2015

• Council Leader meets community groups to discuss future direction of the Borough

  

  Published 21st October 2015

  Community groups are meeting the Leader of Southend-on-Sea Borough Council and quizzing him about his vision for the future direction of the Borough.

• World’s longest pier plays host to devolution conference

  

  Published 20th October 2015

  Leading voices in the region’s planning profession, the Royal Town Planning Institute, are to converge on the end of the world’s longest pleasure pier on Thursday 22 October.

• Rise in local pupils gaining top GCSE grades

  

  Published 16th October 2015

  Southend-on-Sea Borough Council is congratulating schools after provisional figures released nationally showed a rise in the number of pupils achieving 5 or more A* - C GCSE grades.

• Shoebury Common Village Green application recommended for rejection by independent Inspector

  

  Published 15th October 2015

  Southend-on-Sea Borough Council has received a recommendation from an independent Inspector to reject an application for Shoebury Common to be designated as a village green.

• The raincloud that had a life-saving lining

  

  Published 12th October 2015

  A SOUTHEND woman’s decision to shelter from the rain while out shopping by taking advantage of a free NHS health check may well have saved her life.