POLICE and trading standards are issuing a joint warning to residents in Uttlesford to be wary of alarm system salesmen who are using high-pressure tactics. The advice comes as officers have discovered unethical salespeople have been targeting resident...

NATIONAL Express East Anglia s Stansted Airport station has been rated 100 per cent for customer service, cleanliness and information provision following a recent mystery shopper survey. All stations are assessed for customer service and quality standards...

ASIA s leading low cost airline, AirAsia X, has celebrated the first anniversary of its launch of operations from London Stansted Airport to Kuala Lumpur. Congratulating the airline was London Stansted s commercial and development director, Nick Barton. H...

WHAT do a software account manager, photocopier engineer, construction project manager, catering account manager and a yachtmaster have in common? They will all be part of an unlikely group of friends going the extra mile to raise money for a cancer char...

C EST BON! Dunmow s Majorettes are off to France this year as part of the town s 20th anniversary of being twinned with Dourdan. After a warm-up in Braintree Town Centre on Saturday afternoon, the cheerleading dancers accepted a cheque for £500 towards th...

CHIEF Constable of Essex Police, Jim Barker-McCardle, will be commending officers tomorrow (Friday March 12) for their bravery, professionalism and courage at the scene of an illegal rave in Great Chesterford. On Friday August 25, 2006 a team of officers...

HISTORY was made at the Great Dunmow Maltings on Saturday as it hosted its first-ever wedding ceremony. Esther Rowland, from Great Easton, and Peter Cooke, from St Albans, tied the knot at the historic building – but the organisers revealed the happy coup...

A CHARITY ball and dinner has raised nearly £9000 towards ongoing projects in a picturesque Essex village. Over 100 guests graced the annual Finchingfield Charity Ball and took part in a huge auction, bidding for prizes ranging from a Tuscany holiday to a...

PLANS for a dedicated recycling and waste management centre have finally been given the go ahead this week ending decades of uncertainty for residents. People in Great Dunmow will benefit from a new facility which will become a central point for recycling...

VISITORS have one more opportunity to visit the stunning snowdrop carpets at the Gardens of Easton Lodge on Sunday. The gardens have been open for three weeks and vsitors have attended the popular event in droves. Over 1200 adults, many of them with child...

SUPPORT for the Chelmsford Chieftains ice hockey team increased during the closing stages of the winter Olympics it has been revealed. Club spokesman Pete Lewis told the

POLICE are appealing for information following a burglary at the One Stop store, Elsenham, in the early hours of Tuesday morning. At around 12.50am on March 9, thieves forced entry to the shop on Ambrose Corner and stole cigarettes and tobacco with an est...

RYANAIR has announced that it will open a new route from London Stansted to Spain s Ciudad Real Airport. It is the first London route from Ciudad Real and the first Ciudad Real route in the Ryanair network. This three times weekly service will commence on...

HELP is needed to trace the relatives of a Leeds man who has died. Douglas Anthony Easter (76) of Oakfield, Headingley was found dead at his home address on Tuesday March 2. He died as a result of natural causes. Mr Easter is believed to have a son called...

HOTEL chain Travelodge has today announced the opening of its first hotel in the heart of Bishop s Stortford. The new hotel – on Birchanger Lane – was the former Best Western Stansted Manor Hotel. The new property adds 70 rooms to Travelodge s estate and...

Your word is... a light to my path. Psalm 119:105

...they desire a better country... a heavenly one... Hebrews 11:16

...I will give you words and wisdom... Luke 21:15

Love never fails... 1 Corinthians 13:8

...all these... gained [God's] approval.... Hebrews 11:39