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p TOP flight England Basketball League action will come to Harlow Leisure Zone for the first time following the announcement of a partnership between Harlow Hawks and Essex Leopards. The Big Cats will play six to eight division one games on Saturday evenings while continuing…
TRAVELLING MAN PENNED by acclaimed Austrian poet, playwright and actress Veronika Pernthaner and appearing here in an English translation by Michael Branwell, this is the life of a travelling man, recounted as he as he spends the night on a railway station because he has…
A St Clare volunteer will be highlighting the contribution Britain’s overlooked and undervalued pensioners still have to make when he appears in Mary’s Silver Service on Channel 4 this Wednesday (Jun 18) at 8pm. Grandfather-of-four Robin Ekblom, who has been volunteering as a handyman at…
WEST Essex Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) has published its first Annual Report since taking over the planning and buying of local health and care services in April 2013. The report highlights the CCG’s achievements for 2013-2014 and the services that are now being developed for…
LABOUR Parliamentary candidate for Harlow, Suzy Stride has joined staff and residents in celebrating 10 years of local business SAMs Trade Centre. The cash and carry business started trading in June 2004 and Suzy joined them for their Open Day on Sunday 22nd June, receiving…
FIRE CREWS were called to the M11 between junction 7 and 8 to a LGV lorry on fire. Crews reported the cab was 100 percent alight. Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus used two hose reel jets to extinguish the fire by 11:34hrs.
IF THERE IS one thing we have learned in our first year as a newspaper it is that Bush Fair councillor Ian Beckett is one of the hardest working councillors in the town. Now that he has been elevated to chair of Harlow Council, cllr…
HTCC 246 for 3 beat Old Southendians & Southchurch CC 245 for 8 by 7 wickets (50/50 match) AFTER an excellent win last week it was vital that the Town maintained the momentum and were faced with a huge test against OSSCC. Town won the…
BE aware of potentially deadly hazards such as window blind cords and nappy sacks – this is the message from Essex Trading Standards during Child Safety Week from Monday 23 June to Sunday 29 June. An Essex toddler died in her cot after she became…
GREEN-fingered supporters will be throwing open their gates for the 20th annual St Clare Open Gardens Weekend organised by the Harlow Friends. The two-day event on June 28 and 29 is an opportunity to have a wander round some of the best kept green spaces…
HARLOW bus passengers are being asked to plan for disruption to services when the Tour de France comes to the county on Monday 7th July. In total, 24 services will be affected between 7.30am and 5pm – 13 services will not be running while others…
HARLOW College celebrated its success at the AoC Gold Awards held at the House of Commons recenlty. Alan Rusbridger, Editor of The Guardian and a former Harlow College student, was awarded a prestigious Association of Colleges (AoC) Gold Award by Lord Willis of Knaresborough at…
Incident: 1430 hrs M11 s/bound J8 (Stansted) – J7 (Harlow). Lanes 1 and 2 closed, officers are on the way to an accident involving 2 cars. Expect delays.
UNDER-FIRE Princess Alexandra Hospital has decided to close their main car park on what may be one of the busiest days of the year. Cars were turning up to the main completely unaware of the decision to close the car park. Some were parking in…
HTCC 1st XI 181 for 9 beat Stanford-Le-Hope 163 for 10 by 18 runs. The prospect of another washed out Saturday loomed large for HTCC 1’s as the rain lashed down most of the morning. Fortunately the pitch was covered in time and once the…
POLICE are appealing for information after a man was assaulted on a night out in Harlow leaving him with a broken jaw. The man, a member of bar staff, in his 20s, from Braintree, was near the dance floor in Bar 21, Harlow at 2am…
