THE Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust in Harlow is one of nineteen NHS trusts that have been referred to government ministers after auditors raised concerns about their financial health. The Audit Commission made the move after reviewing the health of 98 trusts and made the…

HAS it really been 50 years since the most successful Folk/Rock Duo of all time recorded their first no 1 hit single ‘The Sound of Silence’? With standing ovations at every performance, The Simon and Garfunkel Story’ is currently the biggest and the most successful…

POLICE were called to Potters Field around 11.55am on Thursday morning following reports that a white Ford transit van had been stolen. Officers attended and the police helicopter assisted with the search. The van was found after crashing into a bollard in Spinning Wheel Mead…

THE 20th annual Harlow Open Gardens Weekend has raised a blooming marvellous £6,400 for St Clare Hospice. Hundreds of visitors passed through the gates of 29 of the best-kept green spaces in Harlow, Church Langley and Hastingwood to admire the stunning flora and fauna on…

AS part of Essex County Council’s commitment to improve social care in Essex, the local authority has awarded the tender to deliver its new case management system to Corelogic. The social care case management system will replace 20 systems with one single system. This will…

POLICE want to trace three people in a 4×4 style Mercedes which was seen outside of a house in Hilly Field in Harlow at the time that a burglary took place. The black car was seen to pull up outside the house between 6pm and…

DETECTIVES in Harlow have issued an Efit of a man they want to identify after an attempted distraction burglary in Shawbridge, Harlow on July 17. Around 11.30pm the victim answered the door to a man who asked for ‘Paul’. The homeowner told the man that…

POLICE are advising motorists to avoid the anticlockwise carriageway of the M25 between junctions 28 and 27 following a two vehicle road traffic collision which has shut two lanes. Officers were alerted at 12.42pm today to reports of a collision between a Rover 75 and…

A LEADING Harlow councillor wants to increase the pace of regeneration in Harlow. Speaking at a recent Cabinet meeting in the civic offices, deputy leader of Harlow Council, cllr Tony Durcan stressed the need for an injection of pace in modernising the town. Cllr Durcan…

15-year-old Gary Akister, missing from the Harlow area, has been found in London. POLICE in Essex were searching for a 15 year old boy who had gone missing from the Harlow area. Gary AKISTER was described as vulnerable due to his age and his family…

A MAN has been sentenced to five years imprisonment for distraction burglaries where he preyed on residents in Harlow and Saffron Walden. HH Judge Halworth, in passing sentence, said that there was nothing more abhorrent than this type of burglary where you have elderly and…

POLICE are looking to identify a man in connection with a theft of a mobile phone in Harlow. The theft happened on May 25 shortly after 1pm in Joe Jennings Bookmakers on Terminus Street. The suspect removed a BlackBerry Curve from the table whilst the…

THE innovative ‘Standing Together’ against domestic abuse campaign from Essex County Council and Essex Police reached the half way mark last week with great success. Launched on Monday 9th June, the campaign has gone global with millions of people being made aware of the campaign…

AMBULANCE crews and police have been called to a collision involving a car and a bus on Friday afternoon (July 18). Essex Police and the East of England Ambulance Service were called at 2.45pm to London Road in Potter Street just outside the Vanwise Group.…