ESSEX Police is appealing for help in tracing a teenage girl who is missing for the second time this month and officers are concerned for her welfare. Sharna Middleton, 15, was last seen leaving Harlow with a 15-year-old boy on the afternoon of Thursday, February…

JUST because The Square is closed (for now) does not mean there is great music being played in pubs across the town. On Saturday, The Peliroccos are playing the Herald up at the Sumners. There is a really interesting music scene up there so it…

TV Presenter, Dr Hilary Jones, Actress Denise Welch and Harlow MP Robert Halfon, helped launch LighterLife’s partnership with Stroke Association, at an open day at LighterLife’s Central Office. LighterLife will make a donation of £1 for every pound in weight that new Harlow clients lose…

ESSEX County Fire and Rescue Service has taken its kitchen fire safety message to the roads of Essex. The message appears on buses on some of the busiest routes in the County. The warning appears on the back of five buse which are on routes…

ESSEX County Council is proposing to provide a more integrated health, wellbeing and family support service for families and children from pre-birth until the age of 19. Children’s centres currently provide services for families with children aged 0 to 5 and Essex County Council proposes…

ARE you interested in shaping the way policing is delivered in Harlow? Essex Police is inviting Harlow residents’ to join them for a special meeting on Tuesday 23 February at Harlow College, Velizy Avenue at 7pm. The meeting, chaired by the Harlow Independent Advisory Group,…

A PETITION has been launched to “protect Harlow Town Park” It reads as follows. PROTECT OUR TOWN PARK; We, the undersigned, want to protect Harlow Town Park and want all planning applications on green land stopped in there tracks. We want a park wide preservation…

HARLOW residents with an innovative spirit are being invited to a ‘hack’ to explore answers to the question ‘How do we use technology to live better lives?’ Essex County Council wants to bring together a range of people who are proactive in looking for new…

TEN people have been arrested so far during an operation targeting drug dealing in Southend, Basildon, Castle Point and Rochford. The three weeks of action forms part of Operation Raptor, a team put together earlier this year to deal with gang-related issues and London dealers…

ASDA has removed permanent collection points for food banks from stores across the UK, in a move that has caused alarm among charities and the supermarket chain’s customers. Following reports on social media that collection trolleys and boxes had disappeared from stores across Scotland, as…

0710 hrs Road traffic incident on Hamstel Road, Harlow, close to Princess Alexandra Hospital. More details to follow.

TODAY Robert Halfon MP spoke to local commuters at Harlow Train Station to hear about their thoughts and views on the current train services currently offered by Abellio Greater Anglia. Which?, a consumer group, has launched a report in which Abellio’s overall customer satisfaction score…

ESSEX Firefighters used one hose reel jet to extinguish a fire onboard a 27ft motor cruiser at Old Nazeing Road, Nazeing On arrival the boat, which was on a dry dock on land, was 100% alight. Crews left the incident scene at 04:10.

Harlow 17 Stowmarket 20 London & SE Div III NE HARLOW were forced to field a changed team against Stowmarket on Saturday and despite coming back strongly in the final quarter they were unable to record a much needed win. The problem was not in…