Michael Casey
WORK is under way on creating outdoor education spaces at a school, thanks to a volunteer gardener. Freshwaters Primary Academy, in School Lane, Harlow, put out an appeal for help from the community to turn its extensive grounds into useable working areas for pupils. Neighbour…
HAVE A look at this video and make your own mind up. The footage shows a car pull up into a street in Purford Green in Harlow at just after 1130pm on Wednesday May 7th. They wait until midnight and as soon as the street…
Review: The unremarkable death of Marilyn Monroe By Jo O’Reilly A GOOD piece of theatre, like a good Hollywood movie, can take a piece of fiction and make it seem real, if only for the time you are watching. Marilyn Monroe’s death, as her life…
ESSEX COUNTY Council has detailed its action plan and may be set to turn the school into an academy. The school went into special measures in January but a recent monitoring visit made for very worrying reading as the Paringdon Road school appeared to have…
Yesterday (Tuesday 13th May 2014) at a Council meeting of Essex County Council, Tory councillors voted against saving School Crossing Patrols, devolving budgets to local councils for pothole repairs, and against a Living Wage for council staff, while at the same time appointing two of…
AN ESSEX County Councillor has defended the council’s record on pothole repairs. Highways and Transportation Cabinet Member Councillor Rodney Bass told full council that the County’s highways contract is helping to improve roads in Essex. Cllr Bass said: “Essex County Council awarded its highways contract…
ESSEX COUNTY Council has continued to anger Harlow residents with their suggestions that school crossing patrols can be privately funded. Essex County Council is currently reviewing the provision of School Crossing Patrols at schools where there is either a zebra or pelican crossing in addition…
THROUGHOUT the month of May Harlow Council is encouraging residents to start walking more to celebrate National Walking Month. Walking is simple, free and one of the easiest ways to get more active, lose weight and become healthier. It’s underrated as a form of exercise…
Saturday 28th June – 8pm The Victoria Hall Theatre in Old Harlow FOR one night only, the cream of Harlow’s performing talent, come together to battle it out for comedy supremacy! There will be no script or idea how the night will pan out because…
MANY people were bowled over when they saw singer-songwriter,George Ezra on BBC2’s Later with Jools Holland on Tuesday night. But Harlow fans are in for a treat as he is playing The Square tonight (May 14th). Support from Loser Token and The Last Braves. Doors…
A MAN arrested in connection with a road incident at Harlow has been released without charge. The incident happened at Carters Mead at about 1.30pm on Sunday May 11 when a woman was struck by a passing car. She received treatment in hospital for a…
PEOPLE from across west Essex are being invited to apply to become a member of a new proactive ‘community insight’ group set up by West Essex Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) the organisation that plans and buys health and care services for 300,000 people in Uttlesford,…
COME along to Pishiobury Park and watch as a chainsaw artist turns old tree stumps into animals for children to play on. There are lots more activities at Park Fest – a fun family day at the Sawbridgeworth park later this month, including woodland craft…
ESSEX County Councillor, Karen Clempner is hoping that this seat is a Labour gain. They may well do that. One of the reasons is that popular Joshua Jolles who regained the seat in 2010, left the Conservative group last year and became an Independent. He…
AN EVENT that aims to break down the barriers regarding attitudes to death is being held this week. It will be held at the Latton Bush Centre in Southern Way, Harlow, on Friday (May 16), from 10.30am to 4pm. Called “Breaking Down the Taboo”, it…
A MAN has been arrested after a road traffic collision in Carters Mead, Harlow which left a woman requiring hospital treatment. The incident occurred at just after 1.30pm on Sunday May 11th in Carters Mead. A woman was struck by a car and suffered leg…
