The Covid-19 outbreak gave long-time cabbie Ian the final push he needed to embark on a new career in adult social care and he has never looked back. After spending 30 years driving a taxi in London, Ian Wakeling from Harlow, had fallen out...
West Essex businesses have been able to diversify online and keep their businesses alive during the pandemic thanks to Essex County Council’s (ECC) Business Adaptation Grants and swift support with the application process from Uttlesford District Council. Detheo Photography, Ashton House Media and The Saffron...
An Essex cricket club has transformed its bar’s outside seating space to counter Covid-19 restrictions after help from a local power company. Harlow Cricket Club has received a £250 Team Sport Award from UK Power Networks, the company which distributes electricity across the East of...
Innovative technology, by leading Essex-based telecommunications company, Brentwood Communications, is being trialled in restaurants and bars across the county to minimise the spread of Covid-19 as the hospitality sector begins to re-open on 12 April. Table Tap is a clever solution to help customers and...
Specialist aviation recruitment expert, Staffing Match, has reported a spike in demand for baggage handlers, ramp agents and check-in staff across major UK airports including Heathrow and Stansted as the travel industry prepares for take-off once again. While the official green light hasn’t yet been...
An appeal to raise funds for the new Essex & Herts Air Ambulance (EHAAT) airbase at North Weald has smashed its original target, thanks to support from film and TV star Ray Winstone, the charity's celebrity patron. EHAAT hoped its 'Buy-a-Brick' appeal would raise £20,000...
Focusing on vaccine hesitancy could mean we are missing an opportunity to maximise uptake by better understanding people's capability, opportunity and motivation to get the Covid-19 vaccination, say psychologists. After reviewing the factors that can influence people's responses to messages about vaccination uptake, the British Psychological...
Professional house buying firm Property Solvers’ speed of sale tool has revealed that it’s taking an average of 16.11 weeks to sell a property across Essex. Updated monthly, the latest dataset analysed over 2,796 property sales across the region between April 2020 and April 2021. The statistics...
A popular nine-week fitness programme is back this summer in a bid to help improve physical and mental wellbeing as lockdown eases. The Backside to Trackside programme is again being run by Basildon Council in partnership with Everyone Active and Active Basildon. More than 100 people signed...
On Friday 16 April, the Mayor of Basildon laid a wreath in memory of His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, on behalf of all the residents of the borough. The wreath has been laid outside the Glass Bell Tower in St Martin's Square...
