Michael Casey
A PROJECT which will bring residents and organisations together to improve local communities is to be trialled in the town after receiving an award of nearly £50,000. Following a successful bid to Whole Essex Community Budget, £48,550 has been secured to tackle a range of…
THE NUMBER one issue on the doorstep in Harlow was immigration. Many believe that it is UKIP who have led a “mature and reasoned” debate on the issues. May was a real watershed month for UKIP in Essex with a number of county councillors elected.…
THE HARLOW District Chamber of Commerce and the Harlow Star have joined forces to re-launch the Harlow Business Awards. Nominations open on Augusst 1st and close on August 31st. The categories are: Business Innovation Which company’s initiative in terms of innovation, research and development has…
ESSEX Libraries are running a Sensory Story Time at branches across the county. The story time which is aimed at children of all abilities is led by volunteers trained by the Mid Essex Preschool SEN/AEN (Special Educational Needs/Additional Educational Needs) Specialist Teacher team. The session…
MAY Bell, a shopper from Deal in Kent, has been crowned as the winner of the Elite Model Look UK Competition 2013, a nationwide search to find a new modelling superstar. Having attended an open casting day at intu Lakeside, May has won an Elite…
A MOTION set to be voted on by hundreds of Harlow trade unionists is calling for Labour parliamentary candidate to resign. The motion has been put forward by union activist, David Forman, who believes that Ms Stride’s links to “big business” and “lack of support”…
POLICE would like to speak with this man about a theft from a shop in Harlow. A man walked into the Co-op, in the High Street, and taken some meat from the fridge. He has then left making no attempt to pay at about 12.45pm…
By Jo O’Reilly AS we come to the end of out first month at YourHarlow, we thought we stop for a minute and look at: Five reasons to be grateful you live in Harlow. Access to Nature If you want to get away from it…
On Saturday, YH visited the open day. We made a series of films including this one with glassblower Jon Lewis.
KIER Harlow has achieved an impressive one million accident free man-hours as part of its ongoing zero AIR (accident incident rate) initiative, designed to send every operative home safely at the end of each working day. The company has a long-standing focus on health &…
ESSEX County Council (ECC) had a very positive and constructive meeting with the Highways Agency this week, in which the development of the major trunk roads across Essex was discussed. ECC and the Highways Agency have agreed to establish regular meetings with other partner organisations,…
IN AN echo of (the then) prime minister Gordon Brown’s statement of ‘British jobs for British workers”, Harlow Council leader, Mark Wilkinson told the full council meeting on Thursday night that he was committed to a policy of ‘Harlow homes for Harlow people.” Cllr Wilkinson…
OF ALL THE bad luck in the world! We have had a heatwave for two weeks apart from a two hour window when the heavens opened in Harlow. That happened to be the two hours that rained on Mamma Mia’s parade in the town park.…
HARLOW Running Club staged the 24th running of the Harlow 10 Mile Road Race on a warm and windy Sunday morning. The course started in London Road, opposite Mark Hayourll Sports Centre, went through Newhall, Church Langley, along Hastingwood Road, Threshers Bush, Foster Street, along…
THE SUN SHONE AND the crowds flocked to Barrows Farm for a fantastic day of entertainment. The event saw the launch of the new 3G pitch but in many ways, it was also laying great community roots in the town as young footballers, star footballers,…
POLICE are renewing their appeal for information following a series of indecent assaults against young women in Harlow. Two sexual assaults on Kiln Lane in the Church Langley area of the town were originally reported to police, with the first happening at 12:30pm on Monday,…
