Sunday 5 February 2012

Harlow Headlines

Bootcampathon

Are you fit for charity bootcamp challenge?

RESILIENT residents are being called up for a day of no-nonsense fitness in a bid to raise money for a disabled children's charity.

Harlow MP fights to save town's solar panel scheme

Kier Harlow will fit the solar panels to 1,200 council homes

HARLOW MP Robert Halfon has called on the Government to step in and rescue the town's recently scrapped solar panel scheme.

Harlow Museum set for radical overhaul as plans to offload services are approved

The Museum of Harlow

HARLOW Museum is set to undergo a radical overhaul after being taken over by new operators this April.

Pupils moved by story of man who survived Nazi genocide

Pupils moved by story of man who survived Nazi genocide

STUDENTS at Burnt Mill Academy were stunned into silence when a Holocaust survivor gave them a frank insight into the horrors of life under the Nazi regime

Man arrested on suspicion of attempted murder

Police

A 28-YEAR-OLD Hertford man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder following the brutal attack on an elderly man in Harlow.

Harlow Council to launch legal fight against Gilden Way development

Gilden Way

HARLOW Council is preparing to mount a legal challenge against controversial plans to build 1,200 new homes on fields bordering Old Harlow.

Waste plant protestors urge county council to consider alternative sites

waste plant protest

AN action group campaigning against the construction of a waste transfer plant in Harlow is urging Essex County Council to consider alternative sites for the development.

Features

  • Six of the best kitchen gadgets

  • National Apprentice Week: Get involved!

  • Environmental nappy group may have to fold

  • Are you fit for Kate's bootcamp challenge?

  • Why immunisation is the best health option for kids

  • Children recognised by Anglia in Bloom

  • Swinging sixties make-up trends

  • New NHC salons means real work experience for students

  • Don't flush away your toilet worries

  • Jack and Jill (PG, 90 mins)

  • Journey 2: The Mysterious Island 3D (PG, 94 mins)

  • Chronicle (12A, 83 mins)

  • Carnage (15, 79 mins)

  • Free training on green issues

  • Public get access to rare police records

  • Oriental delights for your home

  • Fish 'n' Chick'n take home award

  • The mild bunch: fruit crops may struggle

  • Charity launches campaign to tackle sexual abuse of children

  • Could a cuppa cut heart disease rates?

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Video & Image Gallery

  • Video: Harlow girl becomes overnight singing sensation

  • VIDEO: Wait's nearly over for Harlow's lottery award hopefuls

  • Slideshow: Hundreds turn out for St Clare Hospice Santa Run

  • SLIDESHOW: MP leads town's tribute to the fallen

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National News

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Young 'lack attention for Dickens'

Young 'lack attention for Dickens'

Modern-day children are not being educated to read with the attention span necessary for a Dickens novel, a leading expert said as the country prepares to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of the revered author.

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