Households can keep better track of their fridge and cupboard food stocks during COVID-19 thanks to a free food monitoring smartphone app developed by the University of Essex. The pandemic has totally changed most people’s food buying habits – from stockpiling groceries in the early...
The Coronavirus crisis has encouraged many people to think about the future and focused their thoughts on how they can help those outside of their immediate family. As we encounter Foster Care Fortnight, which runs from 11-24 May, foster carer Fran Barzoukas from Basildon is urging...
Harlow Town Football Club is a mobile testing site for COVID-19 this week. The site on Elizabeth Way is open for pre-booked appointments today (12 May), Wednesday 13 May and Thursday 14 May between 10.30am to 4pm each day. It’s hoped more mobile testing dates will appear...
Four tiny kittens were bundled into a cardboard box and saved from almost certain death after their nursing mother was killed on a Wisbech road. Cats Protection mobilised staff from two of its Norfolk adoption centres, thanks to a quick-thinking passer-by who rescued the desperate...
Essex & Herts Air Ambulance (EHAAT) and East Anglian’s Children’s Hospices (EACH) have received donations of £1,000 from the family of Tavis Spencer-Aitkens, who was murdered in Ipswich in June 2018. Tavis’s mother Sharon Box says they want to help two charities that mean a...
In response to strong demand, today M&S added a Made Without Wheat Essentials Box to their popular online food box range to cater for customers with gluten or wheat intolerances. The £25 box contains a selection of their great tasting Made Without Wheat gluten-free products, from...
Thousands of tablets are being donated by Freemasons across England and Wales to help families stay in touch with their loved ones during the coronavirus crisis. Freemasons have provided the tablets to more than 50 hospitals, care homes and hospices across their regions at the start...
Santorini Film Festival has announced author Rebecca Hall, as a finalist in the Best Screenplay department of the 2020 festival. The script is based on the author’s debut travel memoir Girl Gone Greek, and brings iconic scenes from the novel to life yet in a present...
((BOUNCE)), the UK’s fastest growing fitness class, has raised more than £50,000 for the NHS in just one day with a mini trampoline marathon. The mini trampoline fitness company challenged attendees to complete five of its online, ultra-calorie-burning fitness classes in one day. ((BOUNCE)) donated...
The Essex Welfare Service (EWS) helps the most vulnerable and those shielding to receive essential supplies. EWS now also provides support to any resident without support from family, friends, neighbours or their local community. Anyone feeling isolated and in need of support can contact EWS for...
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