Pilgrims Hatch

Essex County Council are launching a draft library plan and want your views.

6,500 homes and businesses across rural parts of Essex are set to be upgraded to lightning-fast gigabit broadband as part of the Government’s Project Gigabit programme.

As children break up for the summer holidays, and the weather, occasionally, brightens up to toast us and our gardens, thoughts turn to travel and time away from home.

Brentwood Borough Council will receive £67,383 to help local high streets reopen and attract shoppers and tourists along with £116,694 for Epping Forest District Council.

It’s a year this week since the Prime Minister appeared on our TV screens to explain the UK was entering a period a lockdown to try to bring the rising rates of coronavirus infections under control.

Essex is set to benefit as part of the first phase of the Government’s new £5 billion Project Gigabit which will deliver lightning fast broadband across the country.

Schools, colleges and universities can now apply for funding to allow students to study and work across the world as part of the Government’s new Turing Scheme.

The children of Brentwood and Ongar have returned to school this week amid a genuine feeling of excitement having been out of the classroom since before Christmas.