ROADWORKS are set be suspended until the New Year to help reduce congestion for people visiting relatives and friends across the county during the festive period. All but emergency works will be suspended from Friday, 22 December and will not resume until Tuesday, 2 January.…

A man has been jailed after being convicted of multiple rapes following two trials. Eniola Balogun, 20 (12.12.97) of no fixed address but from the Tottenham area pleaded guilty at Wood Green Crown Court on 19 September to four counts of rape on four separate…

ESSEX air ambulance landed in Nicholls Field on Sunday afternoon to attend to a man who had fallen ill. An East of England ambulance service spokesperson said: “We were called at just before 1pm yesterday to Purford Green, Harlow, to a report of a man…

ESSEX Police have named the woman who died after suffering stab wounds in Braintree on Saturday as Suzanne Brown. Ms Brown was borough up in Harlow. She went to Stewards Academy and lived in the west of the town. Jake Neate, 36, unemployed, of Mountbatten…

Harlow College shortlisted for Semta Skills Awards 2018 HARLOW Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering Centre (HAMEC) has been chosen as a finalist in the Skills Innovation of the Year award at the 2018 Semta Skills Awards. The £11 million HAMEC is a major investment for Harlow…

Futurechef finalists in competition first PASSMORES Academy hosted the local finals of national cooking competition, Futurechef last Thursday (14th December), which concluded for the first time with the winner and runner up both being from the same school. Representing Passmores Academy were students Ross Blackshaw…

THE NEW chief executive of Rainbow Services, Jemma Mindham has praised the work of Harlow groups on Local Charities Day. A government initiative ear-marked Friday as Local Charities Day. A number of charities held stalls on the Broad Walk in Harlow. We caught up with…

THE NSPCC has revealed that across Essex it referred almost 240 contacts to police and children’s services from members of the public concerned a child was being sexually abused. Over the last two years (2015/16 and 2016/17) the charity’s free and confidential helpline referred 237…

0830 hrs M11 Northbound – Accident involving two vehicles blocking lane one between J6 (M25) and J7 (Harlow/A414) 0700 hrs There are currently severe delays of over an hour and a half on the M11 southbound between J8 and J7 due to an earlier incident,…

ST NICHOLAS’ Year 8 pupil Edie Wilson is hoping for a Christmas number one after joining forces with Michael Ball and Alfie Boe. Edie is performing with the stars as part of the Rays of Sunshine charity single ‘Give Me Sunshine’ which was released on…

1900 hrs A large convoy of police vehicles have ushered the unlawful encampment out of Harlow. Ten vehicles both marked and unmarked lined up on the A414 to see off the twenty or more caravans and cars. Statement from Essex Police “We were called with…

A LARGE group of travellers are continuing to defy the High Court injunction on unlawful encampments in Harlow. The group pitched up on Friday afternoon but despite being visited by Harlow Council and Essex Police, they appear to be standing their ground. The encampment is…

GOVERNMENT figures show that ten Harlow primary schools have fallen below the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. A school is considered to be under-performing if fewer than 65 per cent of their pupils taking the national curriculum tests reach the standard or fail…

SIXTY-six new recruits proudly ‘passed out’ (Friday, December 15) during a special ceremony at their HQ in Chelmsford. They were welcomed into the force by Chief Constable Stephen Kavanagh, Assistant Chief Constable Pippa Mills and Judge Charles Gratwicke. The officers, split into Intake B1, Intake…