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New Year’s Eve Results
Ryman Premier Billericay Town 3-0 Harrow Borough Canvey Island 4-1 AFC Hornchurch Cray Wanderers 2-4 Concord Rangers Hastings United 1-2 East Thurrock United Ryman One North Tilbury 2-1 Enfield Town Football League 2 AFC Wimbledon 1-4 Southend United What a great way to see out 2011! Six local sides in action, six wins, As you would have heard on Gateway Sport, East Thurrock United manager John Coventry was delighted with how his side came back from a goal behind at half...
read moreGateway wins Prime Minister Award-
http://www.number10.gov.uk/news/gateway-97-8/ Story is still top of the news on the No 10 site over the holiday period Gateway 97.8, the community radio station in Basildon which aims to enrich the lives of young people and to tackle antisocial behaviour, is the latest winner of the Prime Minister’s Big Society Award. Gateway 97.8 was set up some four years ago. It helps young and unemployed people to gain experience in radio and runs clubs and projects with local job centres to help those in hard to reach areas. The station also delivers...
read moreBillericay Town v AFC Hornchurch LIVE
Billericay Town 0-1 AFC Hornchurch Aveley 0-3 East Thurrock United —————————— FULL TIME: It happens so often, doesn’t it. A huge crowd, a disappointing game, a poor result. ‘Ricay stay top, but only on goal difference. Hornchurch, though, cement their play-off credentials. At least East Thurrock United are holding their end up, winning 3-0 at half time. As ever, thank you so much for logging on, and until Saturday,...
read moreSome great Holiday shows
Please note our schedule has changed over the Holiday period to take into account some of our festive shows that have been aired, coming this week- A special look at the year of sport with the sports team on Sat 31st Dec from 3pm till 5pm. also coming this week Pat Sharp joins us for our New years eve Bash! we also have Ali Stafford over the new year period looking at sport. On top of all that we have our new Day time show from 10am till 1pm week days and your normal favourites the schedule will be back to normal as of Tuesday 3rd...
read moreBoxing Day Football LIVE
Canvey Island 0-2 Concord Rangers Grays Athletic 1-2 Romford Tilbury 3-1 Great Wakering Chelmsford City 1-0 Thurrock Dagenham & Redbridge 3-0 Barnet Aldershot Town 0a1 Southend United – MATCH ABANDONED AFTER 45 MINUTES DUE TO FLOODLIGHT FAILURE —————————— 4.57 – FULL TIME: And there we have it. Concord win the Island derby to do their Ryman Premier survival hopes a power of good and severely dent Canvey’s play-off...
read moreXmas Schedule
Heres our Xmas schedule XMAS DAY 8 10 Basildon Choral Society Concert from St Martin’s Church 10 11 Josh Dubovie 11 12 Simon Fielding Christmas Special 12 3 Christmas Day with Santa 3 3.05 The Queen 3.05 5 Music of the Musicals -Gonzo 5 6 Christmas Essex Folk – Jo 6 7 12 Days To Christmas – Students take to the air 7 8 Arthur Johnson’s Christmas Cracker 8 10 Digital Blues (Rpt) 10...
read moreLocal Sports Round-Up
It was a thrilling evening of football for our local sides last night. To download and listen to the sports wrap, simply right click and then save target / link. Local Sports Wrap Wed 21 Dec 2011
read moreConcord Rangers v Grays Athletic LIVE
Concord Rangers 3-2 Grays Athletic Canvey Island 4-0 Witham Town Carshalton Athletic 0-1 East Thurrock United —————————— FULL TIME: And the curtain comes down on an absolute thriller. Concord take their place in the Semi’s with three well taken goals and some decent individual performances. But Grays take the glory with a fabulous never say die spirit, which almost forced an unlikely but deserved extra time. Hope you enjoyed tonight’s proceedings. Merry...
read moreThurrock Top Of The Tree On Weekend Of Mixed Rugby Fortunes
Here’s this weekend’s local rugby results, which ranged from the sublime to the ridiculous. Thurrock 40-20 Brentwood Thurrock remain top of London 1 North Canvey Island 8-29 Basildon Basildon stay 3rd in London 2 North East, whilst Canvey Island drop to 10th. Old Brentwoods 32-17 Billericay First defeat of the season for Billericay in Essex 1 but remain top on points difference. Burnham-on-Crouch 110-0 Stanford-le-Hope Yes, one hundred and ten. Stanford-le-Hope now sadly bottom of...
read moreEast Thurrock v Hendon LIVE
East Thurrock United 0-0 Hendon Bury Town 2-0 Canvey Island Concord Rangers 0-0 Billericay Town East Thurrock United 0-0 Hendon Leiston 2-2 Grays Athletic Romford 1-1 Tilbury Thurrock 1-1 Woking Burton Albion 1-1 Dagenham & Redbridge Basildon United 0-3 Witham Town Bowers & Pitsea 1-4 Hullbridge Sports —————————— FULL TIME: Hendon could have nicked it at the death when a shot at goal from 8 yards cleared the Manorway itself. ...
read moreDigital TV Switchover
About Gateway 97.8
Gateway 97.8 is the local community radio station for the Basildon and East Thurrock areas of South Essex, providing news, sport and information to the local population. 