A NUMBER of residents have called for Harlow Council employees to return to their offices. On four occasions last week, resident have told us: I am trying to finalise a house sale but there is a delay accessing property deeds as a Harlow Council employee…

A STRONG work ethic from students during the pandemic has resulted in young people today collecting GCSE results to be proud of. Year 11 students at Mark Hall Academy, in Harlow, today received their long-awaited GCSE results – with 64 per cent of students achieving…

IT was a slow week for Harlow with a total of 498 vaccines issued in the past seven days. That brings a total of 105,396 compared to 104, 888 vaccinations the previous week. Once again well done to all those involved in the whole operation.…

YET again another good set of results from St Marks’ year 11 pupils, despite having to adapt to new ways of working during Covid-19 lockdowns, their pupils have shown the determination and perseverance needed to achieve and they could not be more proud of them.…

HARLOW Town FC has confirmed that Vice Chairman Paul Wilson has stepped down from his role. As many may already know, Paul has recently returned to a position in the City and the burden of the time demands placed upon him has led to the…

PUPILS across Essex will receive their GCSE results today (Thursday 12 August), following another school year where formal GCSE exams did not take place due to the Covid-19 pandemic.Similar to last year, GCSE results for 2021 have been assessed by teachers and final grades awarded…

HARLOW Town FC are delighted to unveil their 2021-22 home and away kits. The Hawks will once again be sporting the kit from Joma, continuing their partnership with the Spanish sportswear manufacturers. In light of the turbulent year that their youth teams had, this season…

FROM Monday 16 August 2021 separate weekly food waste collections will resume in Harlow following a temporary suspension to the service. From Monday food waste can once again be put out separately in green caddies. Any excess food waste can be put in a cardboard…

MASTERSON Funeral Home, recently joined the Old Harlow Traders Association, which is run by Pastor Tony Mayes and Christine Smith of The Flowerbox. The group arrange events all year round to fund the town Christmas lights. This year it has been particularly difficult to arrange…

THE Violence and Vulnerability Unit (VVU) are delighted to announce that the new Violence & Vulnerability Community Safety (VVCS) Grant 2021-2023 is now open for applications.As a partnership, the strategic goal of the V&V Partnership is to reduce serious violence, the harm it causes, and…

ESSEX local authorities need to draw on their impressive networking capabilities to improve the county’s poor electric vehicle uptake, which is among the worst in the country, according to new research reports the Local Democracy Reporter. The comments from New AutoMotive, a transport research group…

LEGAL action is being taken against Essex County Council for its failure to prevent scores of children “being put at risk” by placing them in care far away from home reports our Local Democracy Reporter. Although 67 percent of all looked after children are placed…

WITH release from lockdown now passed, we will do the Covid-19 report a few times a week. We are doing this because we want to give Harlow residents an accurate picture of where we are re Covid-19. The report covers UK figures; Princess Alexandra Hospital…

A GROWING sixth form is today celebrating a leap in top grades from its biggest ever cohort of students. Teenagers in Epping received their eagerly awaited A-level and BTEC results today from Epping St John’s Church of England School Sixth Form along with their peers…