A NEW eye in the sky initiative has been met with criticism from residents concerned that tax payers money is being wasted. The Essex County Council-led scheme involves the Essex and Kent police helicopter prowling the skies above the Dunmow area to mo...

WITH only a month until the biggest Great Dunmow carnival ever, the queen and her two princesses have been parading the county representing the town. Kim Carter, who was voted Queen for 2008/09, graced Walton-on-the-Naze with her presence as she boarded t...

EX-England cricketer Ronni Irani showed an interest in a Dunmow planning application by turning up to the Saffron Walden council offices during a development control meeting. The planning application up for scrutiny was the proposed demolition of 39 The C...

A COUPLE from Dunmow are heading off to achieve a lifelong ambition. Ex-teacher Linda Pannell and her husband Maurice will be heading out to Madagascar to work voluntarily at an orphanage for three months. The couple were due to leave today, Thursday, and...

UTTLESFORD District Council raised the Olympic Flag on Sunday whilst, 5071 miles away, the handover of the flag to the Mayor of London took place during the closing ceremony of the Beijing Games. The flag was raised at the district council offices in Saff...

QUEUES for the Countess of Warwick s Country show stretched as far as the eye could see over the bank holiday as guests scrambled to get to the popular annual festivities. On Sunday and Monday Little Easton was a hive of activity as people came from far a...

CLEVER students celebrated the best set of results their school has ever achieved at GCSE level. There were plenty of smiles when pupils from The Helena Romanes School and Sixth Form Centre picked up their results today (Thursday August 21). Headteacher...

THE chance to take part in the biggest party in Great Dunmow is up for grabs thanks to a fantastic competition from the Broadcast. The Dunmow carnival will be kicking off with a procession, involving dozens of floats, on Saturday September 20. The Broadca...

A CASH-strapped council remains in a precarious position despite a string of redundancies and cost cutting measures taken earlier in the year. Lead audit commissioner for Essex, Ian Davidson, said on Tuesday that Uttlesford District Council (UDC) remained...

CAN you write a script and then perform a play inside one week? At the Art Centre in Dunmow you can, and they proved it to an audience of nearly 100 on Friday afternoon. Oliver!, put on by the art centre summer school pupils, literally took just one week...

HOUSEHOLDERS are up in arms after Uttlesford Council changed its bin collections in the Woodlands Park estate in Great Dunmow. After being told that collection of the large wheelie bins would now take place at the end of their roads, residents of Maple Wa...

TWO of BAA s three London airports – Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted – will have to be sold if the Competition Commission s (CC s) initial recommendations go ahead. The independent competition watchdog today released its provisional finding...

HUNDREDS of students from Dunmow and Felsted will have the nerve-wracking experience of opening their A-level results today (Thursday). For those students who don t get the grades they need, all is not lost because the UCAS clearing system, used by applic...

AN INTERNET café and juice bar has received police backing as a place for teenagers to go and socialise. Based on the southern end of Dunmow s High Street, the new bar, which is subject to a planning decision before August 28, will be a hive of youth acti...

A STEBBING woman is holding her very own outdoor coffee morning for charity after losing her mum to cancer. Sarah Lord is taking part in the Macmillan Cancer Support s World s Biggest Coffee Morning by hosting it under a treehouse in her back garden. Sh...

The director of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe announces he is to step down after only a year in the job.

EU leaders are considering imposing sanctions on Russia over the crisis in Georgia, the French foreign minister says.

Police hope to be able to enter the home of a missing family that was destroyed in an arson attack later, once it is declared safe.

The Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, describes the floods in the northern state of Bihar as a "national calamity".

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