The Port of Tilbury, London’s major port, begins its pre-planning community consultation on 6 March to seek local views on its proposals to build a new port terminal adjacent to the current port. The ...

EMR, one of the world’s largest metal recycling companies has made a significant commitment to remaining in its existing Tilbury Dock facility. Not only has it just signed a new 25 year lease with the ...

Seventy-five years ago, 1,027 passengers from the Caribbean disembarked from the HMT Empire Windrush at Tilbury docks to begin new lives in the UK. Today, hundreds gathered in the south Essex port ...

IT IS only 40 minutes from Tilbury to Fenchurch Street station, on the edge of the City. But most residents of the town, one of England’s poorest places, are as likely to commute to the capital as fly ...

Carol Lewis believes exposure to asbestos at the Port of Tilbury caused her husband's death The widow of a dockyard worker has appealed to his former colleagues to support an investigation into his ...

A man has died and other people have been taken to local hospitals with "significant health problems" after 31 adults and children were found inside a shipping container at Tilbury Docks in Essex.

The scene at Tilbury must have been like a vision of Hell. Yesterday morning, dock workers were alerted when they heard “screaming and banging” from inside a shipping container. Inside they discovered ...

Police discovered about 20 motorbikes inside a shipping container thanks to a tracking device. The Metropolitan Police said the haul at Tilbury docks in Essex, believed to have been stolen, was worth ...

A man accused of smuggling 35 people into the UK in a shipping container has told a court he had "no idea" what was inside the receptacle. Stephen McLaughlin, from County Londonderry, said he was a ...

A huge explosion has caused a grain terminal’s roof to collapse at Tilbury Docks in Essex. Nearby residents described houses being shaken by the blast, which took place just before 10am on Friday.

LONDON - A man has died after 35 people, including several children, were found inside a shipping container being unloaded at a dock in eastern England on Saturday morning, police said. Two of the ...