PASSMORES Academy’s Pop Choir started off the Christmas season last week by visiting Sumners Care Home to deliver some Christmas cheer to the local residents. Teachers, Mrs Schultschik and Mr Butler accompanied the keen-voiced cherubim as they entertained the assembled folk. A selection of traditional…

MORE than 150 Christmas revellers took part in the Christmas tree lights switch on in Bush Fair on Wednesday December 12. The joyous community event, organized by the Bush Fair Traders’ Association with support from their Labour ward councilors, included carol singing from choirs of…

The Harvey Centre Screens Iconic Footage of Harlow’s Development Over the Decades RARE archive footage of Harlow from the 1940s to the present day is currently being played in the window of one of the centre’s stores opposite Primark. The films reveal an incredible insight…

AN appeal has gone out for a retired firefighter whose house has been left uninhabitable after his builder was charged with armed robbery and remanded in custody until next year. Here is Steve’s story as written by his niece, Hannah Ellis. “My uncle, Steve Pritchard,…

THE Potters Arms in Church Langley is set to host an evening of carol singing in aid of a local family made homeless by a fire. Emma Pickering Chapman and her four daughters have been left homeless following the devastating blaze at their home in…

Council and church to provide night shelter for rough sleepers WITH temperatures falling Harlow Council is working with St. Paul’s Church to provide temporary night shelter accommodation for rough sleepers starting from tonight (12 December 2018). The night provision will be reviewed on Monday 17…

HEART4HARLOW held a Christmas Service on Sunday morning at St Pauls Church in the town centre. The service was lead by Rev Robert Findlay and Rev Martin Harris. The event had both a civic and community feel with readings from Harlow MP Robert Halfon, Deputy…

A Christmas Carol The Victoria Hall Theatre December 9th, 2018 WHEN you take on a classic, you take on a great challenge. Apart from the fact that it is a classic , it is the challenge of presenting it to a young audience in 2018.…

Volunteering and funding has made for an inspirational combination by the KFC Foundation – one of Kids Inspire’s valued Corporate funders Handing Kids Inspire an incredible grant of over £20,000 (spread over two years up until 2020) was not enough for the East Anglian KFC…

by Kevin James It’s Christmas Eve. Jack and Lily are so excited and determined to deliver their letters to Father Christmas in person. It sounds like a perfect adventure, but they don’t have a sleigh, and they don’t actually know how to get to the…

Children took a step back in time to enjoy a Victorian Christmas. YEAR 5 pupils from Roydon Primary Academy, in Roydon, visited Royal Gunpowder Mills. They researched the difference between the experiences of rich and poor children and the toys they played with and whether…

Harlow Ambassadors meet at the Museum MORE than 80 Ambassadors met at the Harlow Museum and Walled Gardens on Thursday 29 November for the second Harlow Ambassador meeting. The Harlow Ambassador programme brings together business, residents, investors and others to help forge a positive future…

A COURAGEOUS team of 19 local charity supporters successfully braved a skydiving challenge throughout the month of November in aid of West Essex and East Herts charity, St Clare Hospice. This season’s St Clare skydiving event saw a record number of participants take on the…