To Parents and Students of Stewards, I recently came to visit a dear friend of mine at Stewards, her name is Mrs Erwood. She asked me to write about what I have accomplished in the 10 years since graduating as an example of how many…

WORK to expand two Essex primary schools will begin in the coming weeks after final business cases were approved. St Andrew’s CoE Primary School in North Weald Bassett and Pear Tree Mead Academy in Harlow will both be expanded for the new academic year. The…

PEOPLE who want to help saves lives in 2016 and beyond are being urged to join the legion of ambulance volunteers in the East. As people make their new year’s resolutions, community first responder schemes at the East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EEAST)…

ESSEX Police are no longer looking for Jason Gittens. The 21-year-old from Harlow attended Harlow Police Station on Monday, January 4. Mr Gittens, who is unemployed, and of no fixed address in Harlow, was charged with obstructing a police officer on December 3 and appeared…

As the first property in Essex to benefit from a new ultrafast pure fibre network rolled out as a result of the Superfast Essex Rural Challenge Project, the Venditti family from the village of Bobbingworth in Ongar can now enjoy broadband speeds of up to…

NHS West Essex Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is encouraging people to get their flu jab and protect themselves this winter, if they have not already done so. Dr Rob Gerlis, Chair of West Essex CCG and Harlow GP said, “Despite the mild weather we are…

Year 7 students at Stewards Academy learned the process of making profit and being enterprising during an energetic week of making and selling their wares to staff and pupils of the Academy. Christmas decorations, raffles, cakes, biscuits and other goodies were sold. Games, tombolas and…

ESSEX Police are appealing for witnesses to an assault in Harlow shortly after 1.20pm on Monday December 28. A man and his pregnant girlfriend were walking along a cycle path which connects Paringdon Road and Commonside Road, in Lower Meadow when they were approached by…

Update: 1000hrs Essex Police statement HOWARD Way in Harlow was closed for five hours yesterday while emergency services dealt with a two vehicle serious injury road traffic collision. Police were called just before 5pm to reports of a head-on collision between a black Nissan Micra…

ESSEX Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus were called to a kitchen fire in Aynsley Gardens, Harlow, believed to be caused by a toaster. Crews used one hose reel jet to extinguish the fire by 17:37hrs. A ventilation fan was used to clear the property of smoke.…

ESSEX Police had a very busy night in Thurrock and all over the county. Essex Police officers were placed under considerable demand last night as the County celebrated the arrival of the New Year. Between midnight and 4am there were 262 incidents which is an…

ESSEX Police want to hear from anyone who knows the current whereabouts of Jason Gittens. The 21-year-old, whose last known address is St Edmunds Way in Harlow, is wanted for questioning over allegations of threats to kill made in early December. He is believed to…

Update: 181§5 hrs Police searching for Famie Brinkley have found her. Update: Police are appealing for help to trace Famie Brinkley who is missing from her home in Harlow. Famie is 50 and lives in Ladyshot. She was reported missing by her family at 2.20pm…

ESSEX Firefighters tackled a fire which broke out in a cafe in the early hours today. The location was Barrows Road in Harlow. Wearing breathing apparatus and using one hose reel jet crews had extinguished the fire by 01:17hrs. An investigation will be carried out…