LAST chance to nominate in the 2025 Civic Awards! Quick – nominations for the 2025 Harlow Civic Awards close at 5pm tomorrow (Friday 4 April)! If you know of an unsung community champion, a person or organisation that goes the extra mile for the town…

UK businesses will shape the UK’s response to US tariffs announced overnight, as part of plans announced by the Business and Trade Secretary today. Following the 10% reciprocal tariffs on a range of products announced by the Trump administration yesterday, UK companies are being invited…

STANSTED Airport could need extra parking amid its plans to grow to 51 million passengers a year, Essex County Council has claimed. The airport intends to submit a planning application within the next few months to increase the annual passenger limit up to 51 million…

FAMILIES across Harlow will soon benefit from new nursery places. Jerounds school is part of the Labour government’s new scheme to roll out 300 new or expanded schoolbased nurseries by converting classrooms into top quality early years spaces. From September, working parents will get 30…

THE statement of persons nominated for the Mark Hall by-election on Thursday 1 May 2025 has been published today. The candidates are: Marian Forstner (UK Independence Party)Christine Anne Gallacher (Labour Party)Paul Leonard Jago (Reform UK)Lesley Anne Rideout (Liberal Democrat)John Steer (Local Conservatives)Julie Taylor (Green Party)

YESTERDAY, news broke that Harlow has secured the arrival of a new IKEA store on Edinburgh Way. The Leader of Harlow Conservatives, Dan Swords, hailed the announcement saying “we are on a mission to secure investment for Harlow’s future and that this is ‘yet more…

HARLOW MP Chris Vince is one of 24 successful Labour general election candidates whose expenses are being questioned, following claims they did not disclose use of the party’s touring ‘battlebus’. The Electoral Commission, which is the body in charge of overseeing elections in Britain has…

NEWSPAPER editors from across the United Kingdom were invited by the Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to a special reception in Downing Street where he praised the work of local media. Your Harlow editor Michael Casey was invited and was proud to attend and represent…

FAMILIES across the country are set to benefit from thousands of new nursery places from September, as the government delivers the change that people voted for by confirming the first wave of 300 school-based nurseries. The measures will help parents get to work, increasing access…

HARLOW Regeneration Partnership (HRP) is bringing forward proposals for the redevelopment of Post Office Road car park, as part of the rebuild of Harlow Town Centre.  HRP is a long-term joint venture partnership that was established in June 2023, between Harlow Council and the Hill…

IKEA has announced that they will be opening a Harlow store in the former Homebase store on Edinburgh Way. The Harlow Conservatives Leader, Dan Swords, says they are on a mission to ‘secure investment for Harlow’s future’ and that this is ‘yet more proof we…

ANGLIA Ruskin University (ARU) is connecting medical innovators with a new hospital for Harlow, putting cutting-edge technology at the heart of patient care. The Government has confirmed the funding and timetable for a new state-of-the-art hospital for Harlow to replace the ageing Princess Alexandra Hospital,…

Dear Editor, I AM writing to express my growing concern about the apparent increasing number of children using e-scooters in Harlow. Despite the significant legal implications and penalties involved, it appears that many parents continue to buy these vehicles and allow their children to use…

THE Harlow Conservatives have confirmed John Steer as their candidate for the Mark Hall by-election on 1 May. The by-election follows the resignation of the one of the Labour councillors for the area. Commenting on the choice facing Mark Hall residents, John said: “Mark Hall…