Match Reports 2016 6th August 2016 League Home v Hadleigh & Thundersley Hadleigh & Thundersley won the toss and elected to bat Result – Harlow won by 2 wickets It was a tense finish at Marigolds as Harlow, with only 2 wickets remaining, managed to…

ABELLIO Greater Anglia is to run rail services in the region for the next nine years after being awarded a £1.4bn contract by the government. The new service for rail passengers through promises to deliver more than 1,040 new state of the art carriages and…

A man has been sent for trial over an attack in a dwelling house in Ladyshot. Jurijs Leonovs, aged 36,, of Ladyshot, Harlow will stand trial charged with the following. On 22/07/2016 at Harlow, having entered as a trespasser part of a dwelling in Ladyshot,…

HARLOW’S young athletes’ season concluded with a creditable fifth place finish, in the seven team match at Chelmsford. The result meant that the team finished in nineteenth place overall in the twenty-nine team league; significant progress for one of the league’s smaller teams. The day’s…

HARLOW Running Club member Afewerk was first finisher at the Gunpowder parkrun 5K at Waltham Abbey, finishing in 17min 34sec, just 1 second outside his personal best time for the distance (PB) and he was followed home by Amaniel Tesfay 2nd in 18.18 (PB). Carinne…

Deadline September 29th 2016 From The Gibberd Gallery We would like to invite you to submit an original piece of artwork for The Secret Postcard Exhibition to be held at the Gatehouse Arts Gallery with an auction taking place at The Gibberd Gallery, Harlow, Essex.…

THERE are hopes that a much loved pice of art history can be saved from the BHS store. The wooden fresco has adorned the walls for close to thirty years. YH understands that Conservative councillors have been working diligently behind the scenes in order to…

MORE than nine in ten pupils in Essex now attend schools rated as good or outstanding, according to the latest statistics. Some 91.2 per cent of primary and secondary pupils go to a school with one of the top Ofsted ratings, compared with 84.3 per…

HARLOW MP Robert Halfon rose on the floor of the House of Commons to answer questions on apprenticeships Q. To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the maximum duration is of an apprenticeship. A. To ensure that apprenticeships are focused on providing sustained…

WASTE from Harlow businesses which has been illegally left at recycling centres has left taxpayers with a disposal bill running to hundreds of thousands of pounds. ‘Man with a van’ operators offering cheap rubbish clearance, property developers and independent building and home improvement trades have…

THE Harlow Constituency Labour Party has overwhelmingly voted for Jeremy Corbyn in the Labour leadership contest. The vote was as follows: Jeremy Corbyn-43, Owen Smith-8. Many traditional Labour voters turned their back on the party in the General Election of 2015 as they rejected the…

THOMPSON Promotions’ next show at the Victoria Hall theatre is “Rearrange The Furniture”. It is the brand new play written and directed by local playwright , set in a fictional London council estate. It is a story of fathers and sons set against a backdrop…

A NEW study conducted by the Healthwatch Essex Research Team has looked at the factors that influence the food-shopping habits of mothers from an area of relative deprivation in Essex, getting to the reasons why they buy what they buy. Interesting findings revealed that mothers…

A CULTURAL Academy based in The Stow has been severely criticised by Ofsted. The government watchdog inspected the Efua Sey Cultural Academy Ltd on June 21st. The report states the following: “I found that you were not meeting all of the requirements of the Childcare…