THE shadow portfolio holder for Housing believes that Harlow Council tenants are bearing the brunt of the Conservative budget. Cllr Mark Wilkinson said: “The local Conservatives are quick to brag about their budget, but they are not so forthcoming about the additional burden that they…

TRAFFIC WAS brought to a standstill on a busy Harlow street on Friday night. It appeared that a car driver on Tumbler Road had objected to the way an Arriva bus was being driven on Tumbler Road at just after 5.30pm. The stand off lasted…

IT’S like Stellar Street in Harlow! One minute Sir Road Stewart (sic) is getting involved filling in potholes and then we have Brian Wilson. YH spotted Brian as he was pouring tarmac into a pothole on Tumbler Road. It would have been nice if it…

LEGENDARY pop star Sir Rod Stewart has lent his voice and his shovel to slam the state of the roads in Harlow. Sir Rod lives just outside of the town off the Sheering Road but it is clear that the pot-holed filled roads are in…

A HARLOW man and his Ukrainian family have arrived in Harlow after a desperate, frightening and exhausting journey out of war torn Ukraine. Nathan Rossiter, his wife Olena and son Leo have travelled for days from Kharkiv, just twenty eight miles fron the border with…

WE are giving you updates on the Covid-19 situation in Harlow as the needs arise. We are doing this because we want to give Harlow residents an accurate picture of where we are re Covid-19. From January 31st, we are providing a weekly report. It…

ESSEX County Council hopes that the new fund will be used to help connect local people and give them the power to make a real difference in improving their own neighbourhoods.  This forms part of our commitment to reducing inequalities between different areas of our…

A RECORD number of pupils put Passmores Academy down as their first choice school for September 2022. The number of first choice preferences was 324. That compared to 239 last year. An increase of 85. Over 700 applied in total to attend the Tracyes Road…

The Government’s multi-million pound catch up programme risks failing pupils who need it the most, leaving them facing an “epidemic of educational inequality”. In its new report, MPs on the cross-party Education Select Committee find that delivery partner Randstad is clearly not delivering on its…

THE latest update of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography was published on Thursday 10 March 2022 and added biographies of 243 men and women who left their mark on the UK, and who died in the year 2018. ·         Shanghai-born electrical engineer and physicist Sir Charles Kao won the…

ESSEX County Fire and Rescue Service has collected enough donations to fill two 7.5 tonne lorries to be delivered to the Polish border next week for refugees fleeing Ukraine. This is part of a series of activities to help the people of Ukraine including a…

ESSEX Police is very proud of PC Emily Cross, from their Harlow Town Centre Team, who’s been shortlisted for a Heart 4 Harlow award. She works tirelessly to help the homeless community in the town centre and has helped to successfully re-house an number of…

HILDA Kelleher, age 88 passed away peacefully on 2nd March at Heffle Court Care Home, Heathfield, East Sussex. A truly wonderful Mum and great family person – warm and witty, sociable and strong, and a good friend. Beloved wife of Des (RIP), and Mother of…

PUPILS at Roydon Primary Academy, in Roydon, devoted a week to books in celebration of World Book Day. They went to school dressed as their favourite book character or wearing their pyjamas, read every afternoon and decorated their classroom doors in the style of their…