HARLOW MP, Robert Halfon has welcomed the Government’s decision to freeze alcohol duty for a further six months, supporting Harlow pubs and businesses until Summer 2023. The hospitality sector is vital to our great town’s social fabric, and we will always support pubs, breweries and other…

ECCO would like to thank everyone who visited their sold out Santa’s Grotto event across the weekend. It was lovely to see so many families in such great spirits at the Parndon Wood Nature Reserve. Whether you visited Santa, completed the Elf On The Shelf…

HARLOW Council has just announced the purchase of the Harvey Centre for £21 million and Occasio House for £1 million. With work already underway for over 800 homes in the town centre, further purchases to be made and further work to begin in Terminus Street…

FOLLOWING over 200 fully funded training places last year, Essex County Council has secured £189,150 to deliver further retrofit training in 2023. Residents are invited to sign up to fully funded retrofit courses. Training is available at levels 2, 3, 4 and 5 and will…

TRANSPORT technologies of the future, like rescue mission drones and sensors to help visually impaired people use transport, could be brought to life through a new round of Government funding, launched today (12 December). As many as 60 projects could be awarded a share of…

LONDON Stansted recorded its strongest recovery in passenger volumes yet in November. The airport welcomed 1.83 million passengers during November, representing 97% of the passengers served in the same month in 2019, the highest proportion of traffic seen at Stansted throughout the recovery period. In…

THE oldest family business in the area, Daniel Robinson & Sons, has donated 500 tubs of chocolates – a wall of chocolate in fact – to be shared between Harlow and Bishop’s Stortford Foodbanks this festive season. Managing Director Gary Neill said, “we recognise that…

SODEXHO business, MTS Health, has secured a three-year contract extension with Lloyds Pharmacy Clinical Homecare. MTS Health, a leading provider of medical equipment asset management, has supplied, maintained, and serviced the medical equipment used by Lloyds Pharmacy Clinical Homecare since the beginning of 2020. The extension…

TOMORROW Harlow Makers Market will be back for the last market of the year. They will be at The Terrace in The Harvey Centre between 10:30 & 4 with some wonderful Makers offering a range of unique items, just in time for Christmas.

HARLOW Council has bought the Harvey Centre for £21m in a deal which sees the authority take more control over the wider regeneration of Harlow town centre.  The purchase is one of the largest acquisitions made by the council and transforms the authority into one…

HARLOW Council has secured £1 million from the Government’s UK Shared Prosperity Fund to invest in a variety of projects in the town over the next three years. The UK Shared Prosperity Fund is a Government initiative. It aims to enable the delivery of the…

A NUMBER of staff at HTS went down to Tendring Road in Harlow to help make the entrance to Harlow Fields school a little bit safer to enter. The temperature hit -7 this morning but nevertheless staff took time to clear two of the entrances…

YOUR Community Sports and Leisure, a BMAT Education trading company, have a vacancy for a Sports Centre Assistant.Mark Hall Sports Centre, London Road, CM17 9LX (Mobility across the trust)Your Community Sports and Leisure / BMAT Education is committed to equal opportunities, safeguarding and promoting the welfare of…

THE BANK of England has raised interest rates by 0.5 percentage points to 3.5% in an effort to combat double-digit inflation that has caused a widespread cost of living crisis reports The Guardian. Members of the central bank’s monetary policy committee (MPC) voted to increase…