ON Friday 1st July 2022, St Clare Hospice held its second annual Summer Party at Redchurch Brewery in Harlow. The party was a ‘sizzler’ with 135 party-goers attending and organiser’s estimating that more than £3,500 has been raised for the Hastingwood-based Hospice charity. The event saw…

IN the second of our Harlow is 75 interviews, we went down to the Garden of India restaurant in Bush Fair to interview Jamal Uddin. Despite running a host of restaurants, he is still very much in overall charge. He had to be prised out…

HARLOW and Gilston Garden Town are teaming up with independent charity, the Quality of Life Foundation, for a summer of online and face-to-face community engagement that will give local people a chance to shape the future area. Launching on Friday 15 July and funded by…

THE Humming Bird, The Chequers (Commonside Road), The Painted Lady, The Archers Dart, The Garden Tiger, The Marquis of Granby, The Square, various night clubs and social clubs and now the most recent (possibly temporary) closure of the Clock House.  I may have missed a…

COLCHESTER High School, Brentwood School, John Warner School, Harwich & Dovercourt School and Brentwood Sea Cadets have been down selected to compete in the regional finals of the Raytheon Technologies Quadcopter Challenge. With ninety-two teams, forty-one schools and Air Cadet groups and over 500 students…

THE construction of Sizewell C nuclear power station is a nationally significant infrastructure project with an estimated £20 billion investment. It will be the largest construction project in the East of England since Sizewell B was completed almost 40 years ago. It represents significant supply…

Social Media specialist using Opportunity Harlow network to create local connections and grow business Introducing Pinned Social. This week Opportunity Harlow caught up with Lianne Harris, Pinterest Expert and Social Media Manager. Tell us about your business My business is called Pinned Social. It is a…

YOUR HARLOW celebrates its ninth birthday today (July 1st). Launched with backing from the Carnegie Trust after winning a Neighbourhood News competition, our initial aim was to add to the sum of news being provided in the town. Since July 1st 2013, we have published…

ROBERT Halfon, MP for Harlow and Chair of the Education Select Committee, has backed a new Parliamentary report launched by the country’s leading pub retailer and brewer, Greene King on the role that pubs can play in levelling up the country through skills development, job…

ESSEX County Council has joined forces with HSBC UK to bring a series of community pop-up events to residents, sharing the bank’s financial literacy programmes in Essex Libraries. Financial literacy is seen as a critical life skill and HSBC UK’s award-winning financial education programmes, for…

A NEW bus identity, TravelEssex, is being launched today to help the transport network build back from Covid 19 and encourage people to swap from car to bus. TravelEssex has been introduced to provide the network with a consistent, strong identity to build residents confidence…

HARLOW Council has unveiled improved plans for the regeneration of Playhouse Square and College Square in Harlow town centre. Harlow is bidding for £20m from the Government’s Levelling Up Fund to support the area’s transformation into a vibrant Arts and Cultural quarter. The proposals for…

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A HARLOW garage owner who went from tea boy to tyre king is promising to drive his Harlow business into an exciting new era, after strengthening ties with the First Stop network on his 50th anniversary in the motor trade. Laurence Nichols is one of the…