SAFEGUARDING professionals are conducting a review after a woman known to social services murdered her 11-week-old baby reports the BBC. Eloddie Goncalves was found guilty this week of killing Malik Goncalves at her flat in Joyners Field, Harlow in August 2020. The 33-year-old was subject to a…

YESTERDAY, officers from Essex Police – Harlow District Response team followed a tracker to a stolen vehicle, which turned out to be a tractor. With the help of their rural engagement team, the tractor was recovered and returned to its owner. Also the team found…

AN online map has been launched for women and girls to highlight places where they feel safe or unsafe across Essex. It is an initiative by Essex Police, Essex County Council and the Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner (PCC). It will be open to everyone…

FOUR men who admitted their parts an attempted theft at a Harlow phone shop have each been jailed for four weeks. The four men appeared at Chelmsford Magistrates’ Court on Saturday July 22nd where they each were sentenced to four weeks imprisonment for attempted theft…

THANKS to the work of detectives, a mother and father have been convicted following the death of an 11-week-old baby boy in Harlow in 2020. Mother Eloddie Goncalves-Taborda was convicted of murder while father Muritala Olaiya-Imam was convicted of allowing the death of a child. …

MORE than 27 million illicit cigarettes and 7,500kg of hand-rolling tobacco were seized under Operation CeCe in its first two years, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and National Trading Standards have revealed. This comes as new powers come into force from today, 20 July, which…

HARLOW Council has issued a statement following the vandalism to the the Zelenskyy Avenue signs in Harlow. A Harlow Council spokesperson said: “The signs have been cleaned this morning by our maintenance company’s graffiti removal team. “It is both sad and disappointing that someone has…

VANDALS have spray-painted over the name Zelenskyy from all the road signs in Harlow. On Friday, there was a special ceremony marking the naming of the stretch of road that runs from First Avenue to the A414 at Eastwick. Members of the Ukrainian community joined…

ESSEX County Fire and Rescue Service offers safety advice for e-bike and e-scooter owners.  Electric bikes and scooters are becoming a more popular mode of transport, but can pose a risk to you, your family, and neighbours when not charged or stored correctly. Most e-bikes…

A HARLOW man is set to go to trial over a charge of making “menacing” phone calls to a woman. Jeremy Heath, aged 48, of No Fixed Abode, Harlow was charged with the following. On July 6th, 2023, in Essex sent by means of a…

Update: Nicholas Bennett has been found CAN you help the police find Nicholas Bennett who is missing from Harlow. Nicholas has a tattoo on his face of the Joker, a pierced eyebrow and was wearing a dark green t-shirt, black shorts with a white mark…

HARLOW Council has successfully recovered possession of a property in The Oxleys, following the eviction of its tenant who was responsible for a number of antisocial behaviour issues, both at the house and in the surrounding area. The home in question had previously been the…

0800 hrs: Statement from Essex Police: We were called to Church Langley Way in Harlow at around 5:15pm on Wednesday, 19 July following a collision involving a car and an e-scooter. Emergency services, including the air ambulance service were in attendance. The e-scooter rider, a 15-year-old boy…

ESSEX Police are investigating an attempted burglary in the Pennymead area of Harlow. Police attended at a property at just after 4am on Friday morning (July 14th), just off Momples Road. A number of fire crews also attended but we believe they were stood down…