Dear Sir, Today, Members of Parliament including Harlow’s Chris Vince voted to scrap Winter Fuel Allowance for millions of vulnerable pensioners, 11,500 of which are in Harlow. Labour say they expect to make savings of £1.4 billion by implementing these changes, yet we know their…

Dear Editor, Has the electorate been sold a pig in a poke? LABOUR looks to be betraying the working people they are supposed to be supporting, Rachel Reeves seems to have swallowed the George Osborne playbook and worse still Sir Keir Starmer and the leadership…

AUGUST 2024 may well turn out to be the second busiest month in terms of readership since we launched in July 2013. For the record we have had (as of Aug 1 to Aug 23-470,000 page views). Our busiest month was January 2021 at the…

THREE Harlow Labour councillors whose ward covers part of the new Cambridge Road junction that was closed just a few days after its grand opening have issued a joint statement. They said: “The opening and almost immediate closure of the multi million pound Cambridge Road…

Dear Sir, WAKING up to the news of the rise in the cost of fines for families taking their children out during term time, I wanted to clarify a few points around how schools view this. I have just spent the last while listening to…

Dear Editor, AS evidence that not much separates the Conservative Party from Labour one only has to look at how both are good at spending someone else’s money on vanity projects in the name of regeneration. Many will remember that in 2011, fourteen huge red…

Dear Editor, I AM sure many can remember the Labour government that in 1997 gave an exception to Formula 1 on tobacco advertising following Bernie Eccleston’s £1million donation to the Labour Party, but few would credit sleaze being so quick off the grid in Sir…

WOMEN haven’t always had the right to vote. In 1865 a group was formed to discuss votes for women but there were worries about extremists becoming members. However, Leigh Smith Bodichon managed to collect almost 1500 signatures in favour of female suffrage. The Women’s Social…

FOLLOWING on from the riots and disturbances that occurred across the country last week, police forces such as Essex have been working with all accredited media in order to maintain a clear channel of communication and co-operation. Over the last week, all across the county…

Dear Editor, SADLY, like it or not, most of the drug runners in Church Langley, live in Church Langley. Most of the drug deliveries they make, are to people who live in, Church Langley. That cheeky weekend toot of coke or destress puff means you…

Dear editor, WE know that many adults are worried about what they should do when they witness child abuse. Earlier this year the NSPCC released data from a YouGov survey, where 373 adults from the East of England took part. This data revealed that almost…

Dear Editor, ALTHOUGH I no longer reside in Harlow, I have family who still do. It was truly disappointing to see that Harlow’s new MP, Chris Vince, voted to keep children in poverty, effectively turning the Tory policy into a Labour policy. While Plaid Cymru,…

Dear Editor, HARLOW’S new Labour MP Chris Vince has voted in favour of retaining the two-child limit on child tax credits, and in doing so he has demonstrated that on this issue he could be described as the “continuity Halfon”. For both the former Conservative…

Dear Editor, I WAS appalled to read on the Guardian website today (July17) of a “national scandal” perpetrated by the Home Office as a report released this week concluded that 118 still missing unaccompanied asylum seeking (UAS) children, out of an original total of more…