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IT seems to have started with one man concerned with litter in Rectory Field but now there are Harlow Wombles all over town! Community-minded Barry Beaton started to do regular litter picks near his home. He then started a Facebook page called Harlow Wombles, where…
STEWARDS Academy are currently developing a small outside area of the school into a Remembrance Garden to remember past staff and students. Their amazing site staff have excavated the area and removed around 30 tonnes of soil. They have created a trench around the outside…
SCOFFS Group, the largest franchise of Costa Coffee in the UK, are delighted to open their 92nd Costa Coffee store in Harlow on Good Friday, 2nd April. Antony Tagliamonti, CEO of Scoffs Group, said of the opening: “We’re really looking forward to establishing ourselves as…
ALMOST two thirds of adults in Essex are living with obesity or are currently overweight, but one local weight management programme provider has been recognised with a national award for its innovative approach to tackling the obesity challenge. MoreLife was crowned Primary Care Network, GP…
YOU only need to jab twice may sound like a James Bond movie but Muneera Zaman Clinical Pharmacist, PCN South Harlow at the Lister and Gino Martini Chief Scientist at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and Trustee at Harlow Health Centres Trust explain the importance of…
AS we enter April, 2021, we thought we would focus on the progress Harlow has made in relation to Covid-19. As always our thoughts are with the 534 people who died at Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) in Harlow. We have come a long way since…
THE transgender flag is flying outside our Chelmsford Headquarters today (Wednesday 31 March) to mark International Transgender Day of Visibility. Chief Constable of Essex Police, BJ Harrington, said: “This is a really important day to celebrate our transgender colleagues and the diversity of Essex’s local…
THIS is our daily Covid report for Harlow. This includes the figures for Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH). The table of 315 local authorities in England and the breakdown of cases for eleven areas of Harlow. Finally, we also have the weekly number of people vaccinated…
RECENT figures released by the Harlow Conservatives have shown Harlow Council to be the worst in Essex at paying out business grants. The Council has been issued with a stark warning about the grant payments by Essex Council. Harlow’s Labour-run council has been told that…
A HARLOW upholsterer who was caught transporting £1.6m worth of cocaine within two chairs has been sentenced to nine years in prison. Andrew Duncan Fraser pleaded guilty to possession with intent to supply cocaine last year, following investigation by the Organised Crime Partnership (OCP) -…
IN our first month of publication, (July 2013) we were aware that the three Church Langley councillors held a surgery out Tescos. We went along. The idea of the “we come to you, not the other way round” type of surgery appealed to us. At…
RECYCLING Centres across Essex are experiencing particularly high demand which is causing long queues and congestion. In line with government guidance for social distancing, all sites are currently operating at reduced capacity. This has resulted in disruption on surrounding roads, which is affecting local residents and…
A WOMAN has escaped jail after spitting at a police officer during an arrest for drink-driving. Lisa Gilder, aged 48, of Carters Drive, Stansted pleaded guilty to the following at Chelmsford magistrates court. On January 1st at Harlow drove a motor vehicle, on Malkin Drive,…
THE success of the UK’s vaccination programme means the number of countries on the travel ‘green list’, could be more than doubled without putting public health at risk, research ahead of the Government’s Global Travel Taskforce report shows. A study carried out by Oxera and Edge…
FIRE Crews have issued safety advice after tackling a house fire in Harlow. Firefighters from Harlow, Ongar and Epping attended The Briars at 4.31pm on Tuesday afternoon and found a fire in a first floor bedroom. No-one was inside the mid-terrace house when the fire started but…
THIS is our daily Covid report for Harlow. This includes the figures for Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH). The table of 315 local authorities in England and the breakdown of cases for eleven areas of Harlow. Finally, we also have the weekly number of people vaccinated…
