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AN appeal has been made after a bike was stolen outside Tesco in Church Langley. The theft occurred at approximately 6pm on Tuesday evening. It is an Orbea mountain bike. YH understands that the bike was dragged into a car. The bike is the same…

PLANNING applications for two new Harlow Council housing developments are to be considered by councillors at next Wednesday’s (17 August 2022) Development Management Committee. If approved, all 18 homes would be owned by Harlow Council and rented out to Harlow families on the Harlow Housing…

A RESIDENTIAL home for people with learning disabilities is set to be closed. Livingstone House on Potter Street has been a home for many years. Livingstone House has seven single-occupancy bedrooms and a two-bedroom flat. The owners provide residential care and support for 19 adults…

A CHURCH Langley man has escaped jail after driving whilst five times over the legal limit. James Morgan, aged 48, Burley Hill, Church Langley, Harlow pleaded guilty at Chelmsford magistrates court to the following. On May 26th, 2022 drove a VW Passat on a road…

HARLOW Hindu Society to host free event. Full details on poster is below.

WORK by specialist detectives has ensured a man who murdered his friend following an argument about being woken up, now faces life in prison. Thirty-three year-old Jimmy Moore had arrived at the address of Robert Crabtree in Palmers Grove, Nazeing on the morning of Saturday…

NIGEL Bangert has lived in Harlow for more than twenty five years and recorded the town changing over time, through development, a pandemic and recovery. He started to take photographs when he was about sixteen and his first experience was with a Zenit TTL. He…

HARLOW Labour has responded with concerns following the comments by Mike Hardware, the Conservative portfolio holder for Strategic Growth and Conservative Essex County Councillor, that night time lighting should be turned off in Harlow. A comment apparently supported by the Conservative finance lead. Labour leader…
New York: Warrant issued for Harlow man after he fails to attend court to answer hit and run charges

A MAN from Roydon is subject to an arrest warrant after failing to appear in a New York State court to answer charges relating to a crash which led two small children seriously injured. As YH reported last week, it is alleged that Thomas Robb,…

AN appeal has been made after a Harlow woman’s car was stolen. The car is a Black Peugeot 206, registration number LM02 FZK It was stolen on August 1st 2022 in Gibb Croft, Harlow (off Commonside Road). It has a white/grey faded front drivers wing.…

ESSEX firefighters from Harlow and Billericay attended a 40 square metre grass fire in London Road, Harlow, at 20.50 on August 7th. Crews worked hard to stop it from spreading to a nearby line of trees and it was extinguished by 21.55. The cause of…

THERE are a number of job vacancies at the Water Lane Primary Academy in Harlow. Full details of the vacancies at the school, based off Broadley Road in Sumners, can be found if you click on the link below. https://www.waterlaneprimary.co.uk/vacancies-1/

Cllr Kevin Bentley, Essex County Council Leader, has thanked residents of Essex for their outstanding generosity which has seen more than 1,400 Ukrainians welcomed to the county under the Homes for Ukraine scheme. As of Thursday (28 July) 1,408 people had arrived into Essex from…

WITH many jetting off to warmer climates this summer, Essex Trading Standards (ETS) has issued a warning to holidaymakers to be extra vigilant when booking airport parking. Each year, officers receive numerous reports by people returning from their holidays to find out they have unwittingly…

A HARLOW man faces a trial over a charge of actual bodily harm. Stuart Smart, aged 47, of No Fixed Abode, Harlow faced the following charge at Chelmsford magistrates court. On February 5th, 2022 at Harlow assaulted a male, thereby occasioning him, actual bodily harm…

A SENIOR Labour councillor has expressed his concerns over the funding of transport across the town as part of future projects. Councillor Tony Edwards said: “This week I attended a briefing by Essex Highways on the planned road link between Gilston and the Town Centre…