Formule 1 hotel, West Thurrock, Essex

Advantages: Cheap
Disadvantages: Dirty

...Okay so for 30 quid you don't expect The Ritz but you do expect a clean room to sleep in for the night.But that wasn't the case when me and my fiance went there for one night on 11/6/07.We were only staying for one night as I had won tickets to a gig in London,and as I'm from Essex(I live in Wales) I thought it would be appropriate to spend the night there. The room comprises of a TV which would'nt go over a certain volume so was hard to hear, a plastic chair and small desk, a sink with leaky pipes and water stained carpet underneath.There is also a double bed and a single bunk bed. With only one toilet to 6 rooms,it was a terrible mess with alot of 'stains' in the bowl.It was also very claustrophobic and plastic within the toilet area. The walls in our room had tea and other dirty marks all over the place.We had dirty towels...

alzy82 14.06.2007 · Read review
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Review of Formule 1 London Thurrock M 25, West Thurrock

Lakeside in Thurrock Gets Better Every Year

Advantages: A vast amount of shops to choose from
Disadvantages: None

...Lakeside shopping centre in Thurrock, Essex is a huge shopping mall. It has three floors with a variety of shops. I love coming here and it gets better year after year. What's on Offer? On the top floor there are lots of varied eating places from Chinese to burger king and all kinds of coffee shops. On the second and first floor there are many shops such as W.H. Smiths (book store), Debenhams (multi store), Next (ladies and mens clothes), Top Shop (ladies wear), Top Man (mens), B.H.S. (multi-store) , Marks and Spencers (multi-store), the Body Shop, Woolworths, Boots, House of Fraser, JD Sports, HMV (music and dvd store), Dorothy Perkins, Evans and many more. There is also a Cinema complex below the ground floor and restaurants, pubs along with a market. There are many clothes stores on the ground floor too including...

dee2206 27.12.2007 · Read review
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Review of Lakeside (Thurrock)

Essex!

Advantages: Lots to do, good shopping, a beach
Disadvantages: Some places are real dumps

...I live in Essex/East London in an area called Dagenham. I live in one of the "dumps" as mentioned in the disadvantages but I rreally think Essex is a nice place to live! Next year we are planning to move out into Pitsea, Basildon so were further into the nicer bits of Essex. First of all Essex has a couple of good shopping centres. Lakeside is great for real shopaholics as it's open 7 days a week, Monday to Friday is 10 - 10pm and Saturday it's open till 8 and Sunday till 5. It has just about everything there. Tons of music shops, lots of clothing, and my personal favourite, Krispy Kreme! Lol. :P Basildon also has a decant shopping centre and I personally enjoy going to Southend-On-Sea's high street shopping during the summer. As you go further out into East London you also have Romford's shopping mall which is a good one too. Plenty...

luckyduke 16.08.2006 · Read review
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Review of Essex (England)

The Early Essex Days

Advantages: Includes his top selling hits.
Disadvantages: They are the only good ones.

...David Essex, born David Cook, in 1947, has enjoyed a varied career over the last 35 years. He has acted both on stage and in films and television and has many a successful song in the charts. Over the years he has twenty three hits to get into the top 30. He currently has a song in the charts, though I doubt it will make it far due to lack of air play. This song came about as part of a Channel 4 documentary, which attempted to bring back the Christmas number One. He has quite a following, of all ages, and still continues to tour. These days he only sells his records via his website and at the concerts, but previous releases can be found in good music shops. One of these is the CD, The Best of David Essex. It has been in my possession for many years. How it came to be I cannot say. My mum is a huge fan, to say the least...

LUNAH_C 28.01.2006 · Read review
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Review of Best Of David Essex, The - David Essex

Premier Travel Inn Thurrock- Great Value

Advantages: Close to shopping centres, great for families.
Disadvantages: Noisy if windows open- traffic

...for the hotel is FREE. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rooms: This is one of the cleanest travel inns i have stayed at in the uk. The room we stayed in had a double bed and sofa bed which pulls out for the 4th child. The room has a spacious bathroom, Sat Tv, Hair dryer, telephone, coffee and tea making items/kettle. Plenty of extra pillows which i need. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Price: Monday - Thursday From £60 per room per night Friday - Sunday From £54 per room per night ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location: Thurrock West Stonehouse Lane West Thurrock Essex RM19 1NS Directions From the north, exit the M25 at junction 31 and follow the signs...

CRAFTYDONNA 26.07.2006 · Read review
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Review of Premier Travel Inn Thurrock - West, West Thurrock

Essex Boys - I was there

Advantages: Great film based around true events
Disadvantages: Not overly memorable

...This film is based around the true story of three men murdered in a Range Rover at Rettendon, Essex, in December 1995. As a retired member of the investigating team I awaited this film's release with anticipation, keen to see how the incidents and events of that fateful night had been portrayed. I was a little dissappointed following all the hype the pre-release got but to be fair the film was only loosley based around these events. The portrayal of the gangster underworld, club and drug culture of East London and Essex were I suppose reasonably accurate. Certainly the writers and producers had researched things and Sean Bean did give a reasonably good performance. Not the most memorable film but one which holds a particular significance to me....

jonwhite 11.09.2000 · Read review
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Review of Essex Boys (DVD)

Essex boys and Essex girls get it every day...

Advantages: lively, funny presenters with a good range of music and wit!
Disadvantages: only in Essex or on the net via website

...Living in Essex may not be everyone's cup of tea but then they ain't really been to the place 'ave they? One of England's largest counties and such a diversity... Travelling from the downtown Dagenham Ford works through Basildon (blonds abound) the chocolate box picturesque villages of North Essex with thatched cottages - the only thing we haven't got here is hills! But we do have ESSEX FM!!!! Cracking fun to wake up to on a weekday morning- Martin and Sue perform a love-hate relationship throughout their 4 hour show and always have a dig at something or someone topical. It certainly brightens the journey to work sitting in traffic jams on the A12! Martin is such a geek when it comes to motorbikes but seems to know little about anything esle -except how to wind up the ladies(?) of essex with his outrageously chauvinistic attitudes...

averycrossman 02.10.2005 · Read review
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Review of Essex FM

Essex University - centre of excellence

Advantages: Academically excellent
Disadvantages: Concrete buildings

...The University of Essex is fairly small with around 7000 students. About 5000 of these are undergraduates and the remaining 2000 are postgraduates. The university is set in Wivenhoe Park, a beautiful 200 acre country park situated on the outskirts of Colchester. The university was built in the 1960s at roughly the same time as Warwick, York and the UEA. Its concrete buildings are not particularly attractive aesthetically, but the construction of more modern buildings in recent years has given the campus a more contemporary feel. The most recent of these is a new centre homing the departments of history, psychology and accounting. Academically the university is very strong, although predominantly in the Social Sciences. Even though there are only 17 departments, the majority of these have done very well in university league...

rowei 28.02.2003 · Read review
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Review of Essex University

Essex Boys will be boys.

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...It was a toss up between MI2 and Essex Boys, Essex Boys won. The film is derived from the Essex Range Rover murders case from three or four years ago. The potential for a good story was good but I came away dissappointed. I you know the Southend area you'll me more interested in picking out local landmarks than the story line. The only decent character was the driver Billy Wizz. Sean Bean (the star) tried too hard to be Vinnie Jones, some of the humour from Lock Stock would have been welcome. This isn't a bad film, but it would be more at home on the small screen, it comes across as a cocktail of The Bill and Lock Stock, unfortunately its more The Bill. Definately one for a wet Sunday afternoon....

jacksonandy 08.08.2000 · Read review
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Review of Essex Boys (DVD)

Essex FM review.

Advantages: Excellent Local Reception.
Disadvantages: Playlist, Local Adverts.

...Essex FM is not the sort of station I would normally listen to. Sadly I have become familiar with the station over the last year and familiarity breeds contempt. This is the station that they play at my work and the radio is locked in a cupboard, so I cannot get to it! I'll get the good point out of the way first. If your in Essex then you will have no problem listening to the show. Reception is very good, just what you'd expect from a local radio station. Now the bad! First and foremost, the playlist stinks. It isn't unknown to hear the same song twice within half an hour, usually due to one DJ handing over to another. The station has such a small playlist that repeats are inevitable. Some people seem to like this, some people also like to stick vegetables up their bottom. If they kept repeating songs I actually liked then...

Gabbleduck 12.01.2007 · Read review
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Review of Essex FM