The national awards are aimed at recognising the employers and organisations who have demonstrated a commitment to delivering high quality care and developing their workforce. The Adult Operations team is responsible for caring for the county’s vulnerable adults by offering appropriate assessments, reviews, safeguarding and…

AN eye expert specialising in retinal disease at Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust has warned people to take special care if they are hoping to glimpse tomorrow’s (Friday 20 March) solar eclipse – the first since August 1999. The partial solar eclipse will be visible…

TRANSPORT watchdog Passenger Focus found 87 per cent of those using the region’s bus services were satisfied with what they got for their fare. This year’s Bus Passenger Survey was announced in Manchester on Thursday 12th March, with a panel debate featuring transport minister Baroness…

CRUCIAL Crew, the annual event organised by Harlow Council and designed to put local schoolchildren’s safety skills to the test, returned this month. From 3 March-13 March 2015, the Latton Bush Centre played host to around 930 Year 6 pupils from 29 primary schools in…

By Mark Sweeney ESSEX POLICE has launched an inquiry after a man was found stabbed near The Stow. Essex Police were called to the Great Plumtree area of the town at just after 10.35pm after receiving reports that a man had been stabbed. Paramedics were…

DETECTIVES are renewing their appeal for witnesses to an assault in which the victim suffered serious facial injuries. A group of males and females are believed to have been involved in the attack on a man in his 50s in The Stow, Harlow, at about…

POLICE want to hear from anyone who recognises an e-fit of a man who made inappropriate comments to a 16-year-old girl on a bus and then touched her hair as she got off. Two men had begun speaking to the girl at Harlow bus station…

LIVES are at risk throughout Britain from unrecognised kidney disease. As part of a drive to increase awareness and treatment for it, the Lister Area Kidney Patients’ Association (LAKPA) ran stands at Princess Alexandra Hospital and the Lister at Stevenage on World Kidney Day, 12th…

THE Bishop of Barking, the Rt Rev Peter Hill, gave a blessing at St Clare Hospice to celebrate the arrival of the charity’s new chaplain. Rev Marion Williams was officially licensed for her new ministry by the Bishop during a ceremony held in the Hospice’s…

HARLOW Council launched its development partner selection process for a new 484,000 sq ft sciences and business park at MIPIM. The council has full planning consent for a business park development in the life science, advanced manufacturing and ICT sectors on a 25-acre site at…

WEST Essex health and care leaders would like to thank the public for attending their feedback events which took place across Harlow, Epping Forest and Uttlesford in January and February. Residents joined NHS West Essex Clinical Commissioning Group’s (CCG) events in Harlow, Saffron Walden, Waltham…

SLIMMING World members have been collecting a bumper donation of healthy, nutritious foods which were delivered to Harlow Foodbank on Friday 19th February to be distributed to families in need throughout Harlow. The collection has been taking place as part of ‘Free Food February’ which…

THE competition was the ninth annual Harlow College Hair and Beauty show, for the Level 2 Hairdressing students. Each year a new theme is chosen and this year’s theme was ‘The Seasons of the Year’. Each student produces a ‘Mood board’ (a board covered in…

POLICE are appealing for witnesses after three men were attacked in High Street, Old Harlow, at about 12.30am on Sunday, February 22. One of the victims, a man in his 50s from the Harlow area, suffered a fractured wrist. A man, aged in his 40s…