Dear Editor,  ELEVEN days ago I wrote to our new MP, Chris Vince, regarding the urgent and impending decision that the new Government had placed £20 million committed by the last Government towards the rebuilding of the town centre “under review”.  My letter followed a…

YCT, a local mental health charity for children and young people, successfully landed £216,761 worth of funding from the National Lottery’s Community Fund. The funding will be used to support up to 300 more young people with free counselling sessions, decrease play therapy waiting times by…

HAVE your say on what the Policing and Crime priorities and Fire and Rescue priorities should be for the next four years.    Following his re-election in May, Roger Hirst, Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner for Essex, is now consulting on priorities to be included in…

COMMUNITY Embrace UK is inviting you to join their Annual Food Festival which celebrates the rich multi-cultural diversity in Harlow with amazing international cuisine available to sample along with great music, entertainment, kids activities, acrobat display and great company. The event aims to offer local…

ESSEX Police found a Japanese sword, two knives and a knuckleduster in a car linked to a burglary in Harlow that they were pursuing in Elsenham. The incident happened late Friday night (July 26th) when officers on patrol in the Hall Road area of Elsenham…

OFSTED HAS returned to a Harlow-based training provider following a “requires improvement” inspection last year. DRL Services Limited (DRL) based at Horsescroft Road, was inspected in September 2023. At that time,inspectors judged the overall effectiveness of the provision to require improvement. The focus of this…

A snapshot of some of the things Harlow officers have dealt with during June. A spokesperson said: “We helped to find 79 people who were reported missing and helped them to get the support they needed. We responded to 13 mental health related incidents and…

IT is being reported that, in a key note speech on Monday, the new chancellor of the exchequer, Rachel Reeves is set to halt the NHS hospital building programme. It is understood that one of the chancellor’s main priorities is to fill in a “”£20…

A PROJECT to restore the historic Grade II listed walls at the Harlow Museum and Walled Gardens is underway. Harlow Council is working with Messenger, a company that specialises in the conservation and repair of historic buildings and monumental sculpture, to undertake the works. The project began…

FIVE new on-call firefighters have been welcomed into Essex County Fire and Rescue Service after completing their basic training course at the Service’s training centre in Witham this week. The new recruits all live or work within five minutes of an on-call fire station and…

WORK to improve, repair and strengthen many highways and bridges in the county to take place while the road network is quieter says Essex County Council. More repairs to roads, pavements and structures in Essex will be carried out over the next six weeks as…

FOUR hardy Greater Anglia and Network Rail colleagues joined forces to raise more than £5,000 for charity by completing the Three Peaks By Rail Challenge. The team, made up of Greater Anglia’s Safeguarding and Community Safety Manager Georgia Payne, Travel Fulfilment Clerk Linda Roberts, and…

A METROPOLITAN Police officer has pleaded guilty to misconduct in public office after stealing money from a man who died after collapsing on the street reports the BBC. Craig Carter, 51, from Harlow, took about £115 during the incident in Hornsey in September 2022. Click…