BIZARRE: Grays gpe - What They Never Told You

Three people arrested on suspicion of spying for Russia

Two men and a woman have been arrested at two separate addresses in Grays, Essex, on suspicion of assisting the Russian intelligence service.

Evening Standard · Sep 18, 2025

Teacher sent sexual messages to pupil and encouraged him to smoke cannabis

Charlotte Doman, 32, was a history teacher in Grays when the inappropriate contact with the boy began

The Independent UK · Jun 4, 2025

‘It feels like we never left’: resentment builds in one of UK’s firmest Brexit-backing areas

Keir Starmer says Britons have moved on but many in Thurrock think they were lied to in debate about leaving EU

The Guardian - UK · May 17, 2025

Essex pub that displayed golly dolls seized by police is vandalised

White Hart Inn in Grays, which has been the subject of a reported hate crime, daubed with graffiti and has windows damaged

The Guardian - UK · Apr 16, 2023

Police probe ‘racist’ Facebook posts by landlord displaying golly***s in pub

Essex Police officers seized the offensive dolls at the White Hart Inn in Grays

The Independent UK · Apr 13, 2023

Pub owner embroiled in racist dolls controversy posted vile 'hanging' comment

Chris Ryley's pub The White Hart Inn in Essex had its display of offensive dolls removed by police - and now an unearthed Facebook post from 2016 appears to show the landlord making a vile joke about lynch mobs WARNING: STORY CONTAINS LANGUAGE READERS MAY FIND OFFENSIVE

Daily Mirror · Apr 12, 2023

Essex pub landlady replaces golliwog doll collection that was seized by police

Benice Ryley plans to display new dolls despite police investigation into an alleged hate crime

The Guardian - UK · Apr 11, 2023

Landlady puts ‘golli***’ dolls back on display days after police raid

Landlady Benice Ryley says she is ‘grateful’ for home secretary’s intervention, adding: ‘She’s totally right’

The Independent UK · Apr 11, 2023

Racist dolls row landlady defies police to put dolls back on display

Golly dolls have long been accepted as deeply offensive to Black communities as images from the The White Hart Inn, in Grays, Essex, show some of the dolls being hung by their necks from the top of the bar WARNING: THIS STORY CONTAINS LANGUAGE SOME READERS MAY FIND OFFENSIVE

Daily Mirror · Apr 11, 2023

Essex police deny Braverman rebuked them over pub seizure of golliwog dolls

Force rebuffs claim home secretary said they should focus on ‘catching criminals’ after items taken from White Hart Inn in Grays

The Guardian - UK · Apr 10, 2023