FARM Fest returns to Herts & Essex Community Farm on Saturday 15th July 12 – 6pm for it’s 10 year anniversary with FREE entry and no pre-booking required. The music, arts and crafts festival is aimed at bringing the local community together at the tranquil…

STRUGGLING cinema chain Cineworld has said its screens will remain open despite its plans to file for administration to cut its huge debts reports the BBC. Cineworld, which is the world’s second-largest cinema chain, was hit hard by the Covid pandemic when many of its…

FRIENDS of Newhall Primary set to host Summer Fayre. Full details below.

A SHEERING resident has just published a book on Harlow’s Sculpture Walks. Peter Alymer’s book takes you to many of Harlow’s sculptures. One walk is nearly a mile that takes you around the Town Centre. The two others take you further out, a medium walk…

GREATER Anglia is proud to partner with the charity Campaign for Better Transport as part of Better Transport Week and support the brilliant ‘Love Your Station’ initiative devised by the charity.  The week is a national celebration of sustainable transport and aims to promote the wide range of benefits…

ESSEX Library Service has a fantastic new challenge for pre-schoolers happening this summer. Ready… Steady… Go To School is a fun challenge full of activities which will help your child to practice skills that they’ll need to help them feel confident and be ready to…

CHILDREN and young people aged 5-17 are struggling to make friends because they lack self-confidence in speaking to other children, a new survey shows.  Nearly a third of parents/grandparents surveyed in the East of England (32%)1 say their children and grandchildren are struggling to make friends…

RACE Night Fundraising event at the Harlow War Memorial Institute on Friday, 14th July. All proceeds from the event will go to Accuro and help us to continue to provide our services. 

PLEASE join us for our Edinburgh Fringe Festival warm-up and be the first people in the world to see this brand new piece of musical theatre writing. A one-man musical telling the story of the life of Steve Jobs. A divisive character, deemed a genius…

CHURCH Langley couple Gaetano and Tracy Montalbano used to come and go as they pleased to Italy, like any ordinary Europeans. Now they have to limit their stay to Sicily.. The couple in their fifties from Church Langley own a cosy dwelling in tiny Cianciana, where…

THIS summer get outside and make the most of Essex’s top country parks. From the new Stick Man trail at Weald Country Park to beachcombing at Cudmore Grove in east Mersea, there’s so much to see and do. An Essex Country Parks spokesperson said: “Essex…

THE stage is set for the greatest talent show ever!   For the first time together, we will see amazing musical performances from your favourite TV Stars, LIVE on stage!  The PJ Masks, fresh from a new adventure, will show the kids that they can be…

ESSEX authorities are working together to increase the amount of food recycled at the kerbside. New interventions to increase food recycling at the kerbside will be shortly introduced across the county. Around 26% of food waste in Essex currently ends up in the general rubbish…

THE Met Office has issued a yellow hot-weather warning to a number of regions across England for this weekend reports the BBC. Temperatures are expected to reach nearly 30C (86F) in some parts. Seven regions have been given the yellow warning, which means that the…