Dear Editor, THE results are now in and the residents’ of Potter Street will have to accept that this current council has been granted permission to sell Osler House and to create a 38 car parking site next to four housing communities in Potter Street.…

Dear Editor, WHEN a group of residents in Harlow came together in 2017 to form a new local independent political party, a great deal of time was spent on deciding a name which reflected who we were and what we wanted to achieve. The Harlow…

Dear Editor  THE resumption of hostilities in the Gaza Strip ought to spur all people of goodwill to add their voices to the demand for a permanent ceasefire.   The United Kingdom is one of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council…

Dear Editor, AT the SFG meeting last Thursday the panel, acknowledging how short the available time was, promised to answer in writing any questions that were put to them. Mine are as follows. I shall be writing to the DfE with them at the end…

Dear Editor, MANY parents I spoke to last night after the meeting at SFG with the DfE, Baroness Barran and Robert Halfon, left the site dismayed and angry. The overwhelming opinion seemed to be that the event had been carefully stage managed so that the…

Dear Editor, THIS meeting was there to discuss our children’s present and current schooling reality!! Don’t politicise my child’s education!! Yes, there needs to be accountability but this issue needs splitting – the focus on present impacted children/school/Trust and current action/DfE funding/ support to provide…

YET again parents of SFG have been badly let down by the DfE and Conservatives Baroness Barran and Robert Halfon. After waiting weeks to ask them questions about the chaos, and repeated failures to deal with that chaos, tonight we have been told that they…

CHILDLINE has delivered more than 14,000 counselling sessions to children suffering abuse and neglect over the past year. New figures come as the counselling service prepares for the Christmas season, continuing to be a lifeline for vulnerable children and young people The NSPCC is urging…

Dear Editor, I HAVE now had a meeting with Cllr. Swords with Cllr. Leppard in attendance. I had a brief look at the plans for the former council neighbourhood office and surrounding area. Cllr. Swords was clear that there would not be a return to…

Dear Editor, A new hospital for Harlow? Yeah, but not in my lifetime! I hope I’m wrong but I fear that hope has fragile foundations. Mr Halfon states on his website: “After a decade of lobbying and a pledge at the last General Election, the…

Dear Editor, OUR Conservative government should be praised for raising the National Living Wage (NLW) this week with full acceptance of Low Pay Commission (LPC) recommendations. This will be the largest ever increase in the minimum wage in cash terms and the first time that…

Dear Editor, It is hard to believe the latest from SfG. It is hard to believe that tens of thousands of pounds worth of power equipment, connected live to the mains, was stolen over the weekend from SFG without the 24 hour a day security…

Dear Editor, TO read* that local people have been denied 1700 affordable homes due to a decision by East Herts Council to approve a planning application which does not meet local affordable housing policy is one thing.  To find that the Gilston developer will pocket £130m…

Dear Editor, MANY parents of children that attend SFG are keen to find out what the future holds, what went wrong with the £29 million building, and what then went wrong with the temporary accommodation. SFG announced that they will hold a meeting so that…