WANT to perform on The Playhouse stage?Celebrate 2026 is calling all dancers, actors, and solo superstars to light up the big stage at Harlow Playhouse! Showtime: Thursday 12 March 2026 Audition deadline: Friday 30 January 2026 Send your video to [email protected]

WE ARE focussed on solving more crime and delivering the best possible service to our communities”. That’s from the Chief Constable as he outlines the force’s plans to continue bringing crime down and getting more justice for victims. Changes currently underway across the force aim…

THE LEADER of the Harlow Green Party has continued to put pressure on Harlow Council over use of pesticides. Jennifer Steadman asked a number of questions at a recent Harlow Council Cabinet meeting. Jennifer Steadman to Councillor Nicky Purse (Portfolio Holder for Environment): Back in…

THE mum of a 6-year-old girl from Harlow who died months after a routine appendix operation says she is’ hopeful lessons will be learnt from her death in hospital.’ reports the Local Democracy Reporter. Ruby Rose Trussler died in hospital from sepsis brought on by…

WITH just over a week until the Self Assessment deadline, 8.6 million people have already filed their return for the 2024 to 2025 tax year. HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is urging taxpayers and agents who haven’t filed, to act now or risk missing the…

SOPHIA Johnson, Venue Stylist, founder of Daisy Do Events has been announced as an East of England Regional Winner at The Wedding Industry Awards 2026 in the Venue Stylist and Newcomer category. Regional Winners now go through to the National Final in Liverpool in January…

PRESIDENT Trump’s claim Nato troops avoided Afghanistan’s front line has sparked outrage in UK. So we thought we would take this opportunity to remember Harlow’s Private Robert Graham Foster, who died in Afghanistan in August 2007. A little reminder to the US President that Robert…

ESSEX has been given the top rating for showing leadership in protecting the environment for the fourth year running. The rating comes from an annual assessment by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), the environmental non-profit organisation. The CDP operates the world’s only independent environmental disclosure…

MORE than 1,750 people were able to receive hospital equivalent care at home in 2025 through the West Essex Hospital at Home service. The service is run by Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (EPUT) and is available to patients registered with a GP in…

GREATER Anglia staff and customers in West Anglia are being invited to support a special Easter Egg appeal, helping to bring a smile to children and families receiving care in local hospitals. Customers travelling through Stansted Mountfitchet, Bishop’s Stortford, Sawbridgeworth, Harlow Mill and Harlow town…

F.HINDS, one of the UK’s longest-established family-owned jewellers, is celebrating an outstanding year of charitable giving, community support and business growth in 2025 – while looking ahead to an even more impactful year ahead. 2026 marks 170 years of trading for the business, which continues…

AN Essex and Suffolk-based business has smashed its fundraising target for East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH) – helping more than 50 families make cherished memories with their loved ones.  Lignacite, a leading manufacturer of concrete blocks for the building trade, named the organisation as its…

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STONE, Iris formerly of Church Leys, died peacefully at home on 4th January 2026 aged 92 years. Much loved wife of the late John Stone, and mother to Mark, Cheryl and Grant. Funeral service to take place at St Stephens Church, Tye Green on Thursday…