PASSMORES Cooperative Learning Community (PCLC) is delighted that their long serving secondary school lead and CEO Vic Goddard was, this week, invited to attend a royal garden party with the King and Queen at Buckingham Palace for services to education. Emma Bloomfield, the primary school…

COUNCILLOR Ray Gooding has been announced as Essex County Council’s new Chairman. The announcement was made at the meeting of the Full Council today (Tuesday 20 May). Councillor Gooding had served as Vice-Chairman for the past two years while Councillor Jill Reeves was Chairman. Councillor…

AFTER “14 years of Conservative failure” resulted in record levels of illegal sewage dumping in our rivers, lakes and seas, the Labour Government is today announcing it has spearheaded the largest increase in criminal action against water companies in history. A record 81 criminal investigations…

COUNCILLOR Joel Charles is supporting the intervention made today (Tuesday) by the Chief Executive of the Princess Alexandra Hospital to call for a £70 million injection of emergency capital funding to maintain key services at the existing site. The Chief Executive is concerned, in particular,…

THE Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) has recently reviewed its car parking tariffs for patients and visitors at The Princess Alexandra Hospital. A spokesperson said: “The focus is on revising our charges to help manage demand in response to patient and visitor feedback on…

HARLOW Council leader, Dan Swords laid out his vision for the town for the next twelve months. Councillor Swords was re-elected by his fellow Conservative councillors to lead the group for the next twelve months. He created new two new portfolios. Perhaps the most significant…

Photo: Brian Thomas Photography ON Thursday night, Harlow Council hosted their Civic Awards Ceremony. We thought it was only proper that we show cased each worthy recipient. was one of the recipients of the young citizen awards. https://youtu.be/aFk5fYOz8TU?si=tZ-7GUmfcsG3KTAX

Photo: Brian Thomas Photography ON Thursday night, Harlow Council hosted their Civic Awards Ceremony. We thought it was only proper that we show cased each worthy recipient. Olivia Bolwerk was one of the recipients of the young citizen awards. https://youtu.be/O-1rZuDRo5s?si=-wOBNkcCRXqGl03f

THE Mark Hall by-election brought a result predicted by some wise ones. The turnout was 27.9%. Yes, 27.9%. Let’s call it 28% That means 72% of Mark Hall voters didn’t participate. Many have tried to analyse the reasons for that: a lack of faith in…

ON Thursday night, Harlow Council hosted their Civic Awards Ceremony. We thought it was only proper that we show cased each worthy recipient. Here is Frank Alecks from the Berecroft Residents Association. His nomination is read out by councillor Alasdair Gunn. https://youtu.be/NqSVHHXZzK0?si=bKtXJm3heEgueD9t

LITHIUM batteries present the “fastest growing” risk of fires, a Welsh fire and rescue service has said reports BBC. The batteries, and specifically lithium-ion batteries, are used to power a number of devices including e-bikes and scooters and their chargers, mobile phones, laptops and e-vapes. …

DELIVERING infrastructure will be the key challenge for the Government’s new towns programme, a professor of planning has told a parliamentary committee. The new towns are part of the government’s target to build 1.5 million new homes over this parliament. Professor John Sturzaker, Ebenezer Howard…

ON Thursday night, Harlow Council hosted their Civic Awards Ceremony. We thought it was only proper that we show cased each worthy recipient. Harlow parkrun and Harlow Junior park run. https://youtu.be/d1AjdXRh2LA?si=_FcMj7LsbVyr1yHJ

ESSEX taxpayers “could end up giving a significant amount of money” to help businesses save cash when renting council offices, a senior Uttlesford councillor has claimed reports the Local Democracy Reporter. Concerns have been raised about £630,000 being that could be spent to make Uttlesford Council’s…