ESSEX Outdoors’ award winning action-packed School Holiday Activity Days are the ideal way for young people aged 8-16 to try exciting new outdoor experiences during the Easter Holidays between 30 March and 8 April 2016. The activity days cost £30 per child but as a…

A HARLOW woman has made first court appearance in relation to charges of harassment. Diana Leftwich, (44) of No Fixed Abode has been charged on one count of harassment on February 23rd in the Longfield area. She was remanded on bail. Th next appearance is…

This Easter weekend, the Town Centre will be playing host to Harlow’s very first ‘Street Food Market’. Harlow Council has been working in partnership with Peckish Catering Services to transfer Market Square into a temporary street food market, offering a variety of high-quality, unique and…

TWENTY drivers were found to be using their mobile phone behind the wheel during a road safety operation in Harlow yesterday (Wednesday, March 17, 2016). Officers from the Casualty Reduction Section led the road safety operation in partnership with the Safer Essex Roads Partnership to…

ARTIST Sally Gorham will be working on A new family group inspired by the stone sculpture by Henry Moore created in 1954, which sits at the entrance to the Gibberd Gallery. Visit her Friday 18th and Saturday 19th in the atrium area of the Harvey…

THE West Essex Weekend GP Service, which launched in October 2015, has been selected as a finalist in a national Friends and Family Test awards. It has been shortlisted in the Best Initiative in Primary Care category for going the extra mile in its work…

ALL 15 #InstaEssex finalists are set to have their images displayed at London Liverpool Street station and along branch line stations across Essex, helping to raise the profile of Essex culture at our key transport gateways. Amongst the finalists is Brian Duffy Harlow Playhouse Theatre…

STANDING ovations are rare events these days but that is exactly what the audience at the performance of Spine at the Harlow Playhouse gave last week. Spine explored the explosive relationship between a ferocious wise cracking teenager and an elderly East End widow. Harlow actress…

HARLOW Council has issued updated advice to dog owners on avoiding land off Third Avenue following tick research work carried out last Friday (11 March 2016). After thorough research of the area and the collection of ticks for testing for Babesiosis by experts, the Council…

SENIOR county council bosses are facing a public backlash after spending thousands of taxpayers’ cash on an educational highways video that has flopped on YouTube. Cllr Rodney Bass, cabinet member for infrastructure, along with Cllr Eddie Johnson, cabinet member for highways delivery, commissioned a £6,550…

HARLOW MP, Robert Halfon has praised a “budget for the vulnerable” Mr Halfon said: “The Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, delivered a great budget for Harlow. In the past 5 years the Government confronted our country’s problems and took the difficult decisions to make…

FOUR Essex colleges have been awarded capital grants totalling in excess of £500,000 by Essex County Council. Colchester Institute, Harlow College, Prospects College of Advanced Technology (PROCAT) and South Essex College of Further and Higher Education (Basildon campus) have been awarded one-off capital grants totalling…

A POPULAR Harlow GP has passed away. A notice has been posted at the Hamilton Practice Doctor’s surgery, Keats House, Bush Fair to say that former GP Dr Clifford Bishop has passed away after a short illness. Local Councillor Ian Beckett said “Dr Bishop was…

A ROADSHOW raising awareness of the symptoms of bladder and kidney cancers visits Harlow today (Wednesday, March 16). Latest figures show that in Harlow around 30 people are diagnosed with bladder or kidney cancer each year. The roadshow, which is setting up in Unit 64…