Update: Essex Police report that Carol Shwe has been found. HAVE you seen 67 year-old Carole Shwe who has gone missing from the Bush Fair area of Harlow? She was last seen at around 6pm today (Friday, December 21) and is described as around 5ft…

STAFF at Pear Tree Mead Academy performed a non-scripted panto for the children on Wednesday morning. The children loved it and the staff had great fun. The story was a mixture of all the traditional pantos and had all the elements of a panto for…

Primary school children return to cheer elderly patients at Christmas A children’s choir was so popular when they sang at their local hospital last year that they were back by popular demand this year. Pupils from Katharines Primary School brought Christmas cheer to elderly patients…

A LEADING house builder has spread some Christmas cheer this season by donating a Christmas tree to a local school in the Essex area. Barratt Homes made sure pupils and teachers at Fawbert & Barnard’s Primary School had their very own Christmas tree, as well…

ESSEX Police are on the lookout for a new home for one of our police dogs who sadly had her career cut short after she was hit by a car. Police Dog Baloo, a two-year-old Belgian Malinois who has served with us since March, has…

THE police unit tasked with tackling serious and organised crime across the eastern region has made more than 400 arrests and seized more than 110 kilograms of drugs in 2018. The regional organised crime unit, which is part of the Eastern Region Special Operations Unit…

THE 1st Great Parndon Scout Group has won a reprieve and is set to re-open in January. As readers will know, the Scout Association decided to disband the First Avenue-based group due to a number of concerns. The news came as a shock to staff,…

THE CHAIR of Harlow Council did start out the meeting hoping that councillors would embrace the season of goodwill. Fat chance. Harlow Labour and Conservative councillors clashed over possible plans to close Harlow libraries. A motion was proposed by Netteswell councillor, Shannon Jezzard. It was…

A campaign to boost attendance has seen primary school children attend class 100 per cent of the time. Roydon Primary Academy, in Roydon, has been working with parents to raise awareness of the importance of being in school and the effect not being in school…

IT looks like Harlow is in good hands if there are more six-year-olds like Sonny. Last week, Sonny was walking to Freshwaters Primary school with his mother Katy, when he saw homeless people asleep. Sonny was very upset. The next week, when he wrote his…

Christmas Haven – open from 12pm on 23 December 2018 to 12pm on 1 January 2019 Local charity, The Chocolate Run, provide the Harlow Christmas Haven at Great Parndon Community Centre on Abercrombie Way. The Haven provides accommodation, food, clothing and good company for the…

The Great Christmas Sleigh Ride Harlow Playhouse Review by Michael Casey and his grandchildren, Maddie and Charlie What a brilliant idea. Whilst the main theatre hosts the very popular Aladdin pantomime, theatre two hosts The Great Christmas Sleigh Ride. This is a wonderfully child friendly…

THE ‘Woodwind of Stortford’ band visited patients staying at St Clare Hospice’s Inpatient Unit on Monday 17th December 2018 to play festive music and Christmas carols. The event marked the fifth year in which the woodwind band have visited St Clare during the Christmas period,…

IT is the key part of the festive period, desperately trying to remember which bin is on which day and desperately trying to stomp all that stuff into the recycling bin. To make thing easier, full details can be found if you click on the…