By Jo O’Reilly LAST Saturday The Herts and Essex community Farm project took its first tentative steps toward becoming a fully-fledged community farm. Organiser Elliott and a handful of volunteers, of all ages, spent five hours clearing the Foldcroft site of brambles and other debris.…

Division Four Cup Final Grove & Hove 0 v 4 Rovers Return Rovers scorers: Joe Wilson x2, Craig Lavery and Matt Leadbeater Essex Junior Cup Ford Emblem 2 v 2 Parsloe (2-4 AET) Parsloe scorers: Jordon Childs x 2, Lee Exley, Mitchell Das Premier League…

HARLOW Hawks’ promotion hopes were dealt a blow as they lost 64-49 loss to Bedford Bulls in division two of the Herts Basketball League. The defeat means they lost their undefeated home record. The Bulls always seemed to have the upper hand with the Hawks…

HARLOW Ladies crushed close rivals Chelmsford 27-5 in the RFUW National Challenge South East North division one. The Rams ran in five good tries to secure the win on Sunday making sure of the league points and a bonus point for scoring more than four…

AFTER six months of putting in for a debate on domestic violence in West Essex and Harlow, Harlow MP, Robert Halfon was finally granted Parliamentary time by the Speaker on Tuesday afternoon. Mr Halfon said: “It is a pleasure to serve under you today, Dr…

HERE are the figures for week sixteen in the BBC’s Weekly winter tracker for Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow. All comparisons are on the week before. Patients seen in 4 hours: 94.6% Attendance at A&E 1,943 Down by 14 Emergency admissions 554 Up by 11…

STEWARDS Academy brought the Winter Olympics a little closer to home recently when 49 pupils and 7 members of staff headed off for the snowy slopes of Folgaria in Italy for a week’s skiing trip. This was the first time such a trip had gone…

A QUESTIONNAIRE about the proposals for the new M11 junction 7a has been reopened for further comments to alleviate some confusion which arose around the last question. The questionnaire, which originally closed on 31st January 2014, has been reopened until 17th March 2014, with the…

LABOUR shadow education minister, Lucy Powell visited Harlow College, Burnt Mill Academy and Passmores Academy and was clearly impressed with the drive and sense of purpose shown by the students and staff that the shadow minister met. YH caught up with Ms Powell, who was…

HARLOW Council would like to make it clear that it is not responsible for switching off street lights in Harlow between 12 midnight and 5am. This was a decision taken by Essex County Council who is responsible for the majority of street lighting in the…

COMMISSIONED by Perth Theatre Company, It’s Dark Outside is created and performed by Arielle Gray, Chris Isaacs and Tim Watts, the creators of the internationally renowned, multi-award winning production, The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer. Joining Watts, Gray and Isaacs, is 2012 Martin…

HARLOW Council has so far completed 3,000 home improvements as part of its Modern Council Homes Programme. The £22m programme, which started in July 2013, has seen over 3,000 improvements carried out in more than 1,500 Council homes and in addition nearly 2,000 electrical safety…

ONCE again we dip into the popular blog of Steve Hannam which chronicles his life with his son who is on the autism spectrum. So… This week I wrote a book. Well…that’s not strictly true. This week I published a short story, I actually wrote…

AN operation to crack down on drug-dealing in Harlow has so far netted the arrests of 20 suspected drug-dealers. Officers executed search warrants at 31 residential properties in the Harlow area under the Misuse of Drugs Act shortly after 6am on Tuesday, March 4. 17…