Workout buddies - a couple keeping off the pounds with a tough new fitness regime
EFFORTS to encourage more residents to keep fit and shed those pounds will be ramped up – while keeping children out of trouble.
Thurrock Council rubber-stamped plans to promote and push strong messaging around exercise – as top councillors pledged to put sports first.
Community leaders say getting more youngsters into sports gets them off the streets and keeps them on the straight and narrow.
Councillor Joycelyn Redsell, who represents Little Thurrock Blackshots, said: “The youth in the borough need sports and especially at this time and when we come out of coronavirus, they will need it even more.