HARLOW MP Robert Halfon rose on the floor of the House of Commons to support the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s budget. Mr Halfon said: I welcome this Budget. It has five core purposes: to balance the books, help people through covid, to cut the cost…

DEDICATED detectives have arrested three men on suspicion of theft after boxloads of lateral flow tests were stolen from a lorry in Harlow.  Officers managed to retrieve the tests, which were destined for secondary schools across the country, after they were stolen from a lorry…

A SENIOR Harlow councillor has questioned why he has been invited to Loughton for a vaccination. Portfolio Holder for Regeneration, cllr Tony Durcan asked the question at a meeting of the Harlow Council Covid-19 Recovery Group. Cllr Durcan said he had naturally been expecting to…

WITH a phased return to the classroom for secondary school and college pupils set to start from Monday 8 March, settings are currently putting arrangements in place for pupils to take part in asymptomatic Covid-19 testing as per the latest Government guidance. The Government has…

THIS is our daily Covid report for Harlow. This includes the figures for Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH). The table of 315 local authorities in England and the breakdown of cases for eleven areas of Harlow. Finally, we also have the weekly number of people vaccinated…

THREE members of staff at the Harlow branch of Manorcourt Homecare have been voted as ‘carers of the year’ in a recognition project led by branch manager Adrianna Tevfik, which encouraged those using its care-at-home services to nominate a carer who has gone ‘above and…

THIS is our daily Covid report for Harlow. This includes the figures for Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH). The table of 315 local authorities in England and the breakdown of cases for eleven areas of Harlow. Finally, we also have the weekly number of people vaccinated…

KEEPING active, eating well and taking care of mental health was the focus of a special week for children. Cooks Spinney Primary Academy, in Harlow, held Healthy Schools Week to remind pupils to look after themselves in lockdown. Pupils in all year groups got involved,…

IT does seem fitting, on the last day of winter to announce that the number of cases of coronavirus in Harlow is at it lowest point for four months. The number of cases has gone down to 84. That is a fall of five since…

THE INFECTION rate has gone down in six out of eleven areas of Harlow. It went up in two and stayed the same in three. There were 84 cases registered for February 23rd and published on February 28th. The lowest area is Church Langley with…

THERE has been no further deaths registered at Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow. The number of deaths is still 523. There have been 36 deaths in the first twenty seven days of February. That compares to 163 deaths in first twenty seven days of January. There has also been…

THE CHIEF executive of Passmores Learning Community, Vic Goddard cannot wait for his schools to fully re-open on Monday March 8th. “The best bit of the job is missing” YH went down to Passmores Academy to speak to Vic Goddard about the process of fully…

RETAIL trade union Usdaw has consistently campaigned for shopworkers to be prioritised for vaccination, so the union is deeply disappointed that today the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has rejected prioritisation by occupation. Last month the Office for National Statistics (ONS) released evidence on Covid…

THE INFECTION rate has gone down in seven out of eleven areas of Harlow. It went up in two and stayed the same in two. There were 89 cases registered for February 21st and published on February 26th. The lowest area is Church Langley with…