Overcoming that Fear! By Nishall Garala “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.” ~ Nelson Mandela The world can be a scary place. As we go through our daily lives, we face many challenges, and often these…

Real life – Mental Health Care & What lack of it looks like. By Ian Beckett THIS didn’t happen in Harlow, but it might just as well. It’s a regular scenario up and down the country. The people on the receiving end of this lack…

Nishall’s Blog: Stay focused! You can do this! “I am finally done, I’ve finished my degree and I’m graduating with a First Class Honours in BSc Business and Management. Yay! So, this week’s blog is a bit more personal than usual, I’m going to tell…

Dear Editor, “A nation that cannot feed itself is no nation at all” according to the old adage. LEAVING the EU poses serious problems for the food supply industry and already I have witnessed crops rotting in fields around March in Cambridgeshire last autumn. The…

Sir, At St Clare Hospice we are indebted to the more than 500 people from across West Essex and East Herts who volunteer their time to support us each week. The Hospice simply couldn’t continue to provide the level of care we give to patients…

Sir, An article on your website earlier this week stated that Harlow Council has granted permission for Peartree Business Centre to be converted into residential flats (Edinburgh Way Business Centre to convert offices into flats, (YH May 15, 2018). The article goes on to say…

Meditating Happiness WHAT is it that we all have in common—that motivates us? What is it that we are all striving for? We all want to be happy and experience a sense of well-being in our lives. But, most of us look for happiness in…

Cllr Ian Beckett, Harlow’s Mental Health Champion writes: As Maternal Mental Health Week draws to a close I have to share this blog by Rebecca Munns. Rebecca grew up and went to school in Harlow and although living in Dubai for the last few years…

Letter to the editor: From the Leader of The Harlow Alliance Party, Nicholas Taylor I would like to thank the 426 voters who voted for the Harlow Alliance Party in the local election last Thursday. Having launched the Party only three months ago it is…

Seven ways people handle stress effectively EXAM season upon us again… so I thought I would write a blog on stress and how people should deal with it from my personal experience, so it doesn’t affect you in a negative way. While stress causes some…

Dear Sir, Road planning here was, is and will be an absolute car crash: well it would be if the cars can actually move out of the gridlock such abysmal planning will create. Following the ‘success’ of the car park known as Rammell’s Folly, the…

WE filmed this piece on Thursday April 5th. It was a piece on knowing where to and where not to film. It was reported today (April 11th) that Russian journalists had flouted those guidelines by filming in Salisbury Hospital. They were removed by the police.…

WE have a sneaking suspicion that public bodies are (consciously or unconsciously) acting like news organisations. Right or wrong, you decide but it may be worth keeping an eye on. They may now see co-operation as a one way street.

SOMETIMES your IT back up system may consist of a friend around the corner that you can politley request help from. Well, it has worked for us for nearly a decade. But whilst Cheema was helping us out, we chatted about IT, websites and changing…