TO boost the local tourism economy, Visit Essex is encouraging people to support local attractions over the May bank holiday weekend. Tourism in Essex is now on par with pre-pandemic levels and has seen a significant boost in recent times, bringing in over £3 billion…

ST Edmund’s College & Prep School is proud to announce its admission to the Fellowship and Global Community of HPL Schools, following its official accreditation as a High Performance Learning (HPL) World Class School. This very significant achievement reflects the school’s ongoing commitment to delivering…

THE BUSH Fair shopping centre will be used as a filming location all next week. Notices have been placed all over the shopping centre as well as the Tye Green Bowling Club as well as a number of other car parks. It is believed that…

ON Sunday 14th April, Helen Rollason Cancer Charity organised its rural ramble and trail run.  The event has become a firm favourite with locals, and this year the event started and finished in Hatfield Peverel.  There were four routes ranging from 1 to 10 miles…

BURGER King® UK has announced it is scouting for Britain’s best ‘Foodfillment’ faces – the facial expressions made when customers experience total food satisfaction, which can be embodied as that warm, fuzzy feeling that you can only get whilst enjoying a meal at Burger King®…

Credit: chrisdorney – stock.adobe.com UNPAID carers must repay more than £250 million after many were unknowingly overpaid their allowance, new figures show reports the BBC. The government is seeking to recover money from more than 134,000 carers. Carer’s Allowance must be repaid in full if a…

RAIL station gardens in Essex will be on display to the public this summer as the Essex and South Suffolk Community Rail Partnership launches East Anglia’s first railway station ‘Open Gardens’ event. The first Open Garden will be at Wrabness station on 20 May to…

PASSENGERS travelling through London Stansted who are having a ruff day have been able to take advantage of the therapeutic benefits of cuddling a therapy dog to relieve anxiety. The airport has teamed up with a trio of four-legged friends and their handlers from national…

IN THIS Mental Health Awareness Week, we have been focussing on a number of key organisations that are helping to tackle the problems and challenges that are associated with mental health. One of the really important organisations in Harlow is YCT. YCT is a counselling…

THE first ever Harlow Community Arts Festival opened with This Summer by Severn Wonders Production. The Harlow Playhouse Practitioners Programme presents the Harlow Community Arts Festival. Six emerging theatre companies from the local or surrounding area showcase new-writing, all on the brief of ‘Community’. It…

THE Young Kennel Club (YKC) has announced the winners of its annual Artist of the Year competition, with a young dog lover from Witham, Essex scooping the top prize. The popular art competition invited YKC members to express their creativity and showcase their dog artistry…

MAJOR regional law firm, Attwaters Jameson Hill, has been named one of the UK’s ‘Best Places to Work 2024’ by the Sunday Times. The Sunday Times has partnered with WorkL to honour and celebrate the UK workplaces with the highest levels of employee engagement, wellbeing…

“YOU know, we’ve been living in the same town, thinking the same stuff, listening to the same music, both feeling like we’re the only one going through it, at exactly the same time.” It’s new years eve 1999, and two greebos have chosen the same…

IT IS #DementiaActionWeek this week, if you haven’t already seen it, we would highly recommend taking just five minutess to watch the AS Bookcase Analogy. Visit https://bit.ly/ASbookcase If you have why not recommend to a friend? They all hope to see you at their Dementia…