PROJECT Wingman is in full flight at The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) as aircrew support its hard-working staff. The initiative offers a first class service for hospital staff during the fight against coronavirus (COVID-19). Stansted Airport aircrew have volunteered to serve refreshments in…

NEXT has set out plans to reopen its shops after any easing of lockdown measures reports the BBC. The fashion retailer will prioritise larger, out-of-town stores, where social distancing can be more easily implemented. Next has two stores in Harlow. One in The Water Gardens…

CHILDREN at Roydon Primary Academy have created thank you posters for supermarket key workers. The children of key workers, who are attending school during the Coronavirus shutdown, created the posters to go on display at Tesco, in Edinburgh Way, Harlow. Headteacher Michael Clark said: “It…

HUNDREDS of thousands of people have been colouring and creating their own RAINBOWS to say thank you to our heroic NHS. The Water Gardens want to display them as a show of solidarity and togetherness. As a way of thanking the NHS, emergency services and…

THOUSANDS of people currently struggling to pay energy bills while at home and out of work are set to benefit after a community scheme was today repurposed to help those most affected by Covid-19. Community organisations and charities which help households in *fuel poverty, can…

A FATHER-of-two from Harlow diagnosed with asbestos-related cancer has joined with legal experts to launch an appeal to his former workmates to come forward and help him discover how he developed the illness. Terry Coombes was told at the end of October last year that…

THE OWNERS OF The Clockhouse Pub in Harlow have taken millions of pounds of taxpayers’ cash and furloughed 16,500 staff, despite being based in the Cayman Islands reports The Sun. Stonegate Pubs, which also owns Slug & Lettuce, Walkabout and Yates, has used government schemes…

HOUSEBUILDER, Persimmon, have said that they will begin a ‘phased restart’ to site work following a similar announcement by Taylor Wimpey and Vistry, with the move welcomed with a tweet by housing secretary Robert Jenrick. Persimmon say that since the closure of their sites and…

Harlow businesses urged to access Government financial support HARLOW businesses are being encouraged to take action and apply for Government funding support, as figures show thousands are not yet accessing what they are entitled to. Official records indicate that so far more than £175million* of…

A NUMBER of Harlow residents have been made redundant by ABM Blue Handling, which coordinates baggage handling at Stansted Airport. The former employees reached out to their local MP, Robert Halfon, after receiving letters from ABM at the end of March, outlining that the company…

ROBERT Halfon MP is leading a campaign to ensure that every pub in Harlow and the Villages is able to survive during the coronavirus outbreak by asking pub companies to stop charging commercial rent so long as pubs are closed. In a strongly worded letter…

Housebuilder introduces code of conduct which subcontractors will have to sign up to before starting work TAYLOR Wimpey has said it will begin reopening mothballed sites early next month, six weeks after shutting them down following the prime minister’s decision to put the country into…

THE Guild of Property Professionals and sister company Fine & Country have sent a letter to the Government stating why estate and lettings agents should be one of the first industries to return to work once deemed safe to do so. The letter has also…

By Local Democracy Reporter THE government is wasting the opportunity to be able to produce hundreds of thousands of items of personal protective equipment (PPE), an Essex businessman has said. Witham-based StealthMounts has been producing 3,000 face shields a day by using its plastic injection…