GOGETTERS are giving 100’s of presents leading up to Christmas! Order from the 20-24th December for your chance to receive a present with your order. GoGetters are giving away top gifts like the new PS5, Dre Beat Headphones and lots more exciting goodies. Drivers over…

IN a move to ensure firms can access the support they need through continuing economic disruption, Rishi Sunak also confirmed he would be extending the government-guaranteed Covid-19 business loan schemes until the end of March. These changes come ahead of the Budget, which the Chancellor…

SUPERMARKET chain Asda is to close on Boxing Day as part of a thank you to staff who have worked throughout the coronavirus crisis reports the BBC. Unions have been calling on major supermarkets to give all staff the day off on 26 December. Asda…

Long Service Awards 2020 Well done to Nicole Tyler, Funeral Arranger at their Harlow funeral home. Nicole has now been with them for five years and has also just passed her First Aid at Work Certificate. She is pictured here with colleague Liz Chapman. Congratulations…

HARLOW estate agents, Reyland Johnson have made a generous donation to Harlow Foodbank. Ben Johnson said: “As Harlow people and a Harlow based estate agency we like to try and give something back to our community on a regular basis. “This December we wanted to…

ASDA has stepped up its support for families across the UK by offering children the chance to eat for free in its cafes throughout December.  All 216 of the supermarket’s cafes are taking part and will provide children under the age of 16 with a…

A MANAGEMENT buy-out (MBO) proposal has been submitted to the administrators of fashion retailer Peacocks and if successful has the potential to prevent UK-wide store closures and save 4,908 people from redundancy. The bid from a senior e Commerce manager at Peacocks Stores Ltd in…

Robert Halfon MP raises difficulties facing Harlow businesses with Prime Minister LAST week, in the House of Commons, Harlow’s MP, Robert Halfon, raised the difficulties many of Harlow’s small businesses have faced with the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson. Mr Halfon said “that despite the strong…

GREATER Anglia has commissioned a leading provider of testing, inspection and compliance services to test for COVID-19 on its trains – and every test has come back negative. SOCOTEC has so far carried out 40 ‘biological assessments’ on a randomly selected number of trains departing…

NEXT-generation, zero-emission planes could be operating out of London Stansted within the next 10 – 15 years thanks to a new competition by the airport’s owner to drive advances in aviation technology. Manchester Airports Group (MAG), the UK’s largest airport group, has fired the starting…

THE Licensing Committee of Harlow Council is set to review the licence of The Chequers public house in Old Harlow. The committee will be meeting on Wednesday December 2nd. Full details of the agenda can be found below. This includes a chronological list of the…

By Local Democracy Reporter ESSEX County Council (ECC) has agreed to give more support to help “one man bands” grow as part of the county’s response in tackling the economic hurt caused by Covid-19. Unemployment in Essex remains at its highest level for almost 30…

BRITAIN’S major pub groups and brewers have pleaded with Prime Minister Boris Johnson to save an industry facing the “darkest of moments” reports the BBC. Executives at Fuller’s, Carlsberg UK, Greene King, and Heineken UK are among more than 50 signatories of a letter warning…

CHANCELLOR Rishi Sunak will unveil the government’s spending plans for the coming year later reports the BBC. The Spending Review will include details on public sector pay, NHS funding and money for the devolved administrations in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Mr Sunak will also…