SIX Guides from Third Harlow Guides were recently presented with their Baden Powell Awards, the highest award a Guide can get. To gain the qualification, the girls had to complete 10 clauses from five zones: Healthy Lifestyle, Global Awareness, Discovery, Skills and Relationships, Celebrating Diversity…

WHEN your headteacher belts out a tune on the guitar, you know it’s going to be a great day at school. For pupils at Cooks Spinney Primary Academy, in Harlow, it was just another Wow day to celebrate a new topic. The school gets enthusiasm…

1515 hrs Statement from Essex Police We were contacted shortly after 10.30am this morning, March 6, with reports of a body had been found at an address on Southern Way, Harlow. Officers attended but sadly the man was found deceased. His death is being treated…

HARLOW Detectives are appealing for help to identify a man they want to speak to in connection with a robbery in which a man was threatened with a knuckle duster. A 33-year-old man was standing outside a convenience store in Coppice Hatch, Harlow between 6.30pm…

ELEVEN-year-old Callum Hudson, a pupil of the Brenda Taylor School, has landed the role of ‘Eric’ (the boy who has his ears stretched by the fearsome Miss Trunchbull) in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s West End production of ‘Matilda’. Callum has been attending ‘The Brenda Taylor…

A NUMBER of GP surgeries in Harlow have asked for patience as over 3,000 patients from Osler House scramble to find a new doctors. On Saturday, The Hamilton and Ross Practice in Bush Fair had an information stall in the Ross surgery. Osler House patients…

FOLLOWING the sudden death of founding member Barney McKenna in 2012 and John Sheahans’ decision to retire it was agreed that The Dubliners, as a touring band, would come to an end and THE DUBLIN LEGENDS were born. https://playhouseharlow.ticketsolve.com/shows/873579730 THE DUBLIN LEGENDS, Sean Cannon, Eamonn…

A Harlow school could become a travelling theatre venue. Burnt Mill Academy is taking part in a free pilot event which could see visiting performances hosted at the school. The school has been working with A New Direction, which works to ensure all children and…

FOLLOWING the announcement of Toys R Us and Maplin’s administration this week, Harlow MP, Robert Halfon, has written to the Government to ask what they will be doing to support workers. Commenting, Robert Halfon said: “I was very disappointed to hear about the closures of…

MORE than 4,000 drivers in the East of England were issued FPNs for using their mobile phone behind the wheel in 2017, down from 6,723 the previous year(1). But the amount authorities collected MORE THAN TRIPLES due to heftier penalties due to heftier penalties and…

Next Lunch Friday 23rd March 2018 *1 WEEK EARLIER DUE TO GOOD FRIDAY* From 12.30pm Harlow Town Football Club, Elizabeth Way, Harlow, CM19 5BE Harlow Professionals Lunch is relaxed, informal and provides an opportunity to meet likeminded business people and build relationships with new connections.…

THIS by-election was called due to the sudden resignation of Harlow Council leader Jon Clempner. There is no doubt that the Labour group are missing and will miss Jon Clempner. One of the reasons is his forensic analysis of election patterns that was very important.…

Update: Essex Police have told us that there is no further action. =========== A MAN has been arrested on suspicion of Grievious Bodily Harm (GBH) after another was allegedly assaulted in Nicholls Field today (Sunday Mat A spokesperson for Essex Police said: “A 45-year-old man…

A 16-year-old boy from Harlow has been charged with wounding with intent after another teenage boy was stabbed in the town on Saturday morning, March 3. The boy will appear before magistrates in Chelmsford on Monday, March 5. A second 16-year-old boy who was also…