BY Hannah Sellman WRITER Dan Freedman visited Burnt Mill Academy to give an inspirational speech to the Year 8 students about his life. With Freedman’s previous career involving work with Sky Sports, Radio 5 Live and the FA it was the perfect opportunity for the…

GET into the spooky spirit at The Harvey Centre this Halloween, with a host of free activities as part of its Kids Club programme. On Friday 31 October, little ones can get arty in a witches-themed craft workshop. Learn how to make bats from tissue…

THE SOUNDS of My Way and Come Fly With Me will be coming out of the Victoria Hall Theatre next month. The show is called ‘Come Fly With Me’ and is a Frank Sinatra Tribute Night, with Morgan Perkins Snr singing and performing as Old…

venue to have a look at Solo Flight. Sculptor Antanas Brazdys was born in Lithuania in 1939, he moved to the USA and studied in Chicago, before moving to London to work. He was commissioned in 1982 to design the sculpture which was the centre…

FA Trophy 1st Harlow Town 5 v 2 Wroxham FA Trophy Preliminary Round HARLOW Town made short work of Wroxham to win 5-2 in the FA Trophy Preliminary Round It was Harlow’s 135th birthday and they looked in party mood. Harlow opened the scoring in…

By Matt Critchell DON’T forget Harlow’s annual firework display on Sunday 2nd November held at the Showground, Harlow at 5.30pm, with free admission all night. Heart 101.7 music roadshow will kick off the evening and are joined by an exciting fun fair. The Chair of…

MAKIN’ Steps 2014 Showcase will be held at Victoria Hall in Old Harlow on Saturday at 6.30pm. The performance will feature songs and dance from Labyrinth, 9-5: The musical, Annie The Musical and Scene & Heard. Tickets cost £10 (£7 for under 16s). For more…

FROM scaffolders to bricklayers and roofers to lecturers – around a hundred people turned out to support local apprentices, work experience students, college tutors and employers, as they were honoured at a special celebration event held at Blake’s Golf Club. The awards evening was organised…

PARENTS looking for educational, as well as adventurous, day long activities for children this half term, need look no further than Essex Outdoors. Essex Outdoors is running one day multi-activity days from Monday 27 October until Friday 31 October for children aged eight years and…

HARLOW secured a win over league leaders Wanstead in a very hard fought cut and thrust game. In a very good Harlow team performance Danny Fitzgerald came into the front row to replace the injured Cunningham. This saw Harlow produce a great scrummaging performance with…

Review: Dogs Don’t Do Ballet at The Playhouse By Jo O’Reilly THERE are not many ballet troupes that are set up with the sole purpose of making their own existence obsolete, but that is the very idea behind ballet black. A professional ballet company for…

ONE of the many wonderful, dynamic and vibrant companies based at the Parndon Mill is Blue Pig. Blue Pig is a a graphic design consultancy specialising in design for print, web and digital media. They celebrated their silver jubilee with a party at the Mill,…

HARLOW Running Club members were out and about in force last weekend, achieving two club records, two Essex Championship medals and several personal best times (PB). At the Yorkshire Marathon held at York Jamie Jephcott finished in 504th place out of 3675 finishers in a…

MEDTECH businesses are encouraged to find out more about the latest developments in local industry at the next M11 MedTech Forum, which aims to bring together those with an interest in the growing life science and healthcare cluster in the region. The free-to-attend event, organised…