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We are donating up to £10,000 from our fireworks budget to
@HarlowFoodbank
to support and feed local families this half term, which includes children who are entitled to free school meals.
We are along with many local businesses and organisations ensuring
#NoChildGoesHungry
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Thanks so much to one kind-hearted resident who took it upon themselves to clean up the story telling chair that was so callously vandalised yesterday.
It looks much better than it did and we're looking at ways to protect it and further improve the look of it.
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Today is Harlow’s birthday. It was 73 years ago that our town was designated a new town.
It’s a time to remember our town’s
#CommunitySpirit
. This spirit has got us through the last 73 years, it’s getting us through these tough times and it will get us through the times ahead
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❄️This is a beautiful sight! You know it’s Christmas when
#reindeer
are running around in preparation for Christmas Day!
We are very lucky to have these wonderful reindeer in our glorious
#Harlow
town park at
@HarlowPetsCrnr
❄️
🎄☃️❄️🌨
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Work has been completed by HTS 🚚 to refurbish the empty Bromley Cottages 🏠These beautiful cottages owned by us will provide supported accommodation for up to nine rough sleepers. The accommodation and support will be run by the wonderful charity
@streets2homes
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We want your old large fizzy drink bottles...
We’ve a great way to recycle ♻️ your large fizzy drink bottles and that’s to turn them into poppies 🌺 for a public display
This is what you need to do to help 🔽
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#StayAtHome
#ProtectTheNHS
🩺
#SaveLives
#DontDiscoverHarlow
Harlow will still be here when this is all over
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Wow, over 1,000 trees planted in one day 🌳...
1,003 trees were planted yesterday as residents, local groups and council staff joined the leader and deputy leader of the council to help
#Harlow
reach its annual tree planting target in just one day!
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For us it’s the little things like this which makes the
#HarlowCarnival
worth it
Sue sent us this of her 91 year-old mum enjoying the carnival
Sue said the day brought back memories for her mum of when Sue's dad used to drive the floats 🚚 for the carnival back in the 70s
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@MyDoncaster
You are actually really enjoying this aren’t you? Great work by the way. Gritting has never been so interesting...
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Great news, Government funding of £260,500 for 2018/19 has been confirmed! This means we can implement our range of measures, working with
@streets2homes
, to support local rough sleepers leading up to and throughout the next winter ❄️ period
We have submitted a proposal 📖 to Government to help get people sleeping rough in
#Harlow
into housing 🏠
The proposal includes working with
@streets2homes
on a range of measures 🔽 to help provide the specialist support rough sleepers need
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They've done it again! Thanks to our brilliant
#volunteers
for helping
@ParndonWood
win its 10th consecutive
@GreenFlagAward
and our Town Park win three in a row! Thank you for all you do. If you want to know more about volunteering in your community visit
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An appeal to you to help our town’s hard working bin crews 🚛
#Harlow
’s bin collection staff are
#keyworkers
and they’re doing a brilliant job collecting the town’s rubbish and recycling.
Their hard work is keeping our town clean and safe during the
#coronavirus
outbreak
🔽
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🌳 Did you know Harlow Town Park is now a Grade II listed site?
We welcome the decision of
@HistoricEngland
to give the status to our beautiful town park
It is unusual for a public park to be given such status, but as we all know
#Harlow
is a unique and special place!
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Today,
#Harlow
-born comedy legend Rik Mayall would have turned 60. He's commemorated here in our town with this mural on the side of
@harlowplayhouse
#RikMayallDay
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🌳This morning .
@ChairofHC
planted an oak tree, which is the final tree as part of the new community woodland on Second Avenue
🌲 The area is being dedicated to the
@QGCanopy
, a unique UK-wide tree planting scheme to mark the Queen’s
#PlatinumJubilee
in 2022 .
@RoyalFamily
⬇️
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Happy Birthday
#Harlow
! 🎂🎁🎉 🎈
Today is our town’s 72nd birthday - it was 72 years today that our town was designated a new town
🥂 Here’s to the past, present and future!
#DiscoverHarlow
@discoverharlow
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What a difference a year makes...
This is
#Harlow
's Oakwood Pond 🦆🦉🐿️🦇🐟🦋🌳🌿, a year on from work to restore it to its former glory starting.
We're proud of this
#hiddentreasure
and of all the work that officers and volunteers have put in.
What do you think?
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🎁 Happy birthday
#Harlow
!
Our town is 71 today 🎂
71 years ago on Harlow was designated a new town 🏘
It was also a year ago that Harlow started to celebrate 🎉 its 70th birthday. Take a look back 👀 at Harlow is 70 ▶️
🎞
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#Harlow
’s tribute to the fallen
Falling poppies 🌺 from the balcony of the Civic Centre 🏢
Created by Val Fitz-John using over 3,000 handmade knitted 🧶 and crocheted poppies
We’re proud to support this truly fitting tribute
Thank you to everyone who has helped create this
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A staff wellbeing room 💗 has been setup in the Civic Centre👷♀️👷♂️👩💻👨💻👨💼👩💼
We’re asking businesses to support
#mentalhealth
in the workplace & this is part of what we’re doing
The room was officially opened today by our mental health champion
@ChrisJVince
🧔🏻
#MentalHealthMatters
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9
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We are sad to announce that Councillor Frances Mason has passed away following a short illness.
Frances was a much-loved and respected councillor. Our thoughts are with her family and all who knew her
Full tribute at
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🗳 Today is local election day!
Polling stations will be open until 10pm tonight 🕙
Find your polling station 👉
If you're taking your dog, share your pics with us! 🐶
#YourVoteMatters
#dogsatpollingstations
#HarlowElects
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A huge thank you to all of our 1,900 Litter Heroes 🦸♀️🦸♂️ who gave up their time to help clean up their town for the Harlow Spring Clean💐💐💐
Collectively you have cleaned-up approximately 400 bags worth of rubbish in Harlow 👏👏👏👏
Visit:
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It's
@GreenFlagAward
number 11 for
@ParndonWood
and a fourth in a row for
#Harlow
Town Park! 💚
We're so proud of all the work that our teams and the volunteers who support them have put in to make this possible. Thank you! 👏👏
Read the full story at
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Here's some exclusive video footage of
@HarlowPetsCrnr
's reindeer getting into the Christmas spirit and enjoying last week's snow!
#proudofHarlow
❄️🎄❄️🎄❄️
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Unauthorised encampment update: all vehicles have left
#Harlow
. Thanks goes to our Community Safety Team who have continued to work on this all day in close contact with
@EssexPoliceUK
. This afternoon Essex Police issued a Section 61 to the group.
#workingtogetherforHarlow
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💚 Restoring pride around the town 🪧
We’re in the process of restoring blue estate heritage sign boards around the town 🪧
There are a total of 15 signs which have been removed and are being restored back to their former glory by a specialist sign company 🧰
⬇️
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Introducing the
#ChurchLangley
and
#CoalportClose
litter 🚮heroes 🦸♀️ 🦸♂️
What a brilliant job. They did this today for their community and our town 💖 thank you 🙏
#litterheroes
#GBSpringClean
#HarlowSpringClean
#greatbritishspringclean
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The
#HolocaustMemorialDay
flag is flying outside the Civic Centre and will continue to fly over the weekend.
A Holocaust Memorial Day service, which is open to all, takes place at the
#Harlow
Civic Centre this Sunday 27 January from 5pm.
#harlowremembers
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These beautiful cottages 🏠 have been renovated and are now being used by
@streets2homes
as accommodation for rough sleepers. The first residents moved in this week.
It has long been the dream ☁️ of Streets2Homes to provide accommodation like this - that dream is now a reality
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Council support worker Donna is volunteering for Rainbow 🌈 helping to deliver food parcels as well as supporting Leah Manning Centre customers.
If you know someone who needs help & support at this time please get in touch with the community hub or get them to ring 01279 927005
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📢The Harlow Carnival is coming back to town...
☀️🎭🎤🎼🎉
#HarlowCarnival2018
And it will be bigger and better than last year...
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Today the
@ChairofHC
has delivered Christmas hampers to our emergency services 🚓🚑🚒🏥
@ECFRS
@HarlowCpt
@NHSHarlow
@EastEnglandAmb
The hampers were funded and put together by our staff to say thanks 🙏 to the emergency services who will be working over Christmas & new year
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Today, we proudly fly the Rainbow Flag outside the Civic Centre 🏢 to celebrate
@EssexPride
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
#pride
#harlow
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🏴 Flying proudly outside the Civic Centre for Sunday 🤞
⚽️ ➡️ 🏡
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#Harlow
's postbox is still gold 🥇 today for .
@LauraKenny31
.
Gold for a champion and when
#London2012
torch came to town
We are very proud of the strong sporting achievements by people who have lived, grown up, trained or were born in the town
#Olympics
#Tokyo2020
#Gold
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#Harlow
's tribute to the Fallen.
"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years contemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them."
For the Fallen, by Laurence Binyon
#LestWeForget
#RemembranceDay
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We have submitted a proposal 📖 to Government to help get people sleeping rough in
#Harlow
into housing 🏠
The proposal includes working with
@streets2homes
on a range of measures 🔽 to help provide the specialist support rough sleepers need
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11
27
▶️ Urgent message to all
#Harlow
residents from
@cllringall
and
@HarlowTory
on what we can all continue doing to help stop the spread of COVID-19 in our town
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Breaking news: Parndon Wood has won its 9th
@GreenFlagAward
with the
#TownPark
winning it for a 2nd year running
#LoveParks
❤️Harlow
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💕 Introducing more
#LitterHeroes
🦸♂️and
#LitterHeroines
🦸♀️ who took part in litter picks 🚮 this weekend
This is the Emery family who litter picked in
#TheDashes
🧹
They did this for their community and
#ourtown
💖 thank you 🙏
#GBSpringClean
#HarlowSpringClean
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🦆 We popped down to the fantastic Oakwood Pond in Little Parndon (back of Upper Park) this morning to see how it’s getting on following its restoration last year 🦆
One of
#Harlow
’s hidden treasures 🌳 🦆
🎞 Here’s a short video ⬇️
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After delivering Christmas treat hampers to Police 👮🏽♀️👮🏾♂️and Firefighters 👩🏼🚒👩🏾🚒 on Friday today we delivered a hamper to
@NHSHarlow
A and E 🏩 staff 👨🏽⚕️👩🏻⚕️ as a thank you for working over Christmas.
These hampers were put together from food and items donated by our staff
🥧🧀🍬 🍪
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Have you got an old coat hanging up that could keep someone warm this winter? Harlow’s first coat exchange scheme for the homeless and vulnerable launches this Saturday at Harlow Central Library
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The 🏴 flags are up outside the Civic Centre and
@harlowplayhouse
ahead of
@England
🏴 taking on Croatia 🇭🇷 in the semi-final of the
#WorldCup
- COME ON ENGLAND!
#ENGCRO
#ComeOnEngland
We are not going to say those three words...
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🌳 TREES, TREES, TREES and more TREES 🌳
An amazing 2,703 trees have so far been planted as part of our Plant A Tree for
#Harlow
scheme!
On Sunday in Sumners Park 1,700 trees were planted by some 150 local people!
#PlantATree
Thread 🔽
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The results for the Bush Fair ward by-election are now in:
Emma Ghaffari (Con): 482
Kay Morrison (Lab): 594 (ELECTED)
Jennifer Steadman (Green): 109
Nicholas Taylor (HAP): 76
Turnout was 22.97%
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Our
#wildflower
verges are looking absolutely stunning right now 🌺
We currently have four on Mark Hall Park, Third Avenue, Second Avenue and Southern Way as part of a trial project with HTS, and there could be more in the future.
Read more at:
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We are with Roy the magnificent
#Suffolk
punch horse who is building “leaky dams” at Parndon Wood to help protect 42 local homes from flooding
@Essex_CC
@PlaceServices
@EnvAgency
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A Thank You 🙏
We would like to say a BIG THANK YOU to all 65 groups who took part in the
#HarlowSpringClean
🧹 for
#GBSpringClean
There’s been an incredible response from you in helping to clean up our town. We’ll be sharing more of your photos on here in the coming weeks
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Harlow Community Hub helpline ☎️offers phone support, reassurance and advice to the most vulnerable residents in Harlow.
If you or someone you know could benefit from the Hub, please call the helpline on 01279 927005 and request assistance.
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#YouAreNotAlone
🌸
We’ve lit up a corner of the Civic Centre pink & blue for Baby Loss Awareness Week
#BLWA2020
If you’ve lost a baby, please don't suffer in silence. You are not alone, there’s organisations that can help you and many more people who are
#HereForYou
1/2 🔽
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We'd like to pay tribute to Rox, who was part of our Community Safety Team, who sadly passed away last week after over 9 years’ service.
Rox won trophies in working dog classes, and was extremely loyal and protective.
Rox served the Council well and will be missed by all ❤️
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She was, thankfully, able to be released back into the wild on Sunday evening 😀
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Harlow’s Hospital 🏥 is doing a brilliant job in the most challenging circumstances.
💕 We are very proud of our hospital’s workers. But this Easter they need our help so they can help save people’s lives.
For them please
#StayAtHome
#ProtectTheNHS
🩺
#SaveLives
💕
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A Men’s Shed has been officially opened in Harlow, providing a safe space for men to talk openly whilst taking part in practical activities. For more information, visit:
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Last week Rainbow Services, assisted by NCS Supported Studies students from Harlow College, refurbished 🎨and replanted 🌺🌸the planters in West Square and Playhouse Square.
Well done to everyone involved – the planters look great!👍
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#Harlow
’s famous family group statue is currently staying at home in the Civic Centre. They are not going out unnecessarily.
Please follow the government’s advice too
#StayAtHome
🏡
#ProtectTheNHS
🩺
#SaveLives
💕
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🇬🇧
#StandWithUkraine
🇺🇦
The council’s political leaders
@CllrPerrin
and
@ChrisJVince
have issued a statement in support of
#Ukraine
and its people
▶️
⬇️
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13
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Huge congratulations 👏 to the town’s hospital 🏩 for getting out of
#specialmeasures
and making improvements. We are proud ❤️ of everyone at
@NHSHarlow
from the nurses to doctors to support staff and the admin staff for the work they do everyday
Today we’re out of special measures and our latest CQC report has been published. Major improvements all round in less than 18 months. “This report shows we’ve got what it takes to make this Trust outstanding,” says CEO Lance McCarthy
@CareQualityComm
@NHSImprovement
#WGWIT
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❤️ We are extremely proud of our Community Safety Officer Faith Watson who was runner-up in the
#LordFerrersAwards
yesterday. Faith, who is a Hate Crime Ambassador, was nominated for her work on local projects. She is pictured with her husband Ian.❤️
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A letter to supermarket customers from Sainsbury's, Co-op, Lidl GB, Aldi UK, Waitrose & Partners, Marks and Spencer, Asda, Iceland Foods, Morrisons, Ocado and Costcutter 🔽
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We've received the
@GreenFlagAward
for both Parndon Wood Nature Reserve and the Town Park 🌳🌱🌷🌼🌻
Today we celebrated the hard work & dedication of our brilliant teams of volunteers that have made this fantastic achievement possible at a special event for them. 👏
#LoveParks
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Car park closures 🚗🚫
Today we have taken the decision to close the Town Park car parks and any others found near open spaces until further notice to help reduce unnecessary travel.
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On Sunday (26 January 2020) we will be hosting a Holocaust memorial service in the Civic Centre from 5pm. Everyone is welcome to join us
This year’s theme for
#HMD2020
is
#StandTogether
#HolocaustMemorialDay
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Do you know any young people aged 13-16 who would benefit from this? Sessions begin next Tuesday
#MentalHealth
#Wellbeing
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🙏 Thank you for thanking
#Harlow
’s bin collection crews who are working hard to keep our town clean and safe at this time.
Your thank you messages are very much appreciated and these are some on display for the crews to see every day 🔽
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5
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Great news today that the
@DiscoverHarlow
project, which will tell and bring alive the new
#Harlow
story, has been shortlisted for
@citynationplace
Place Brand of the Year Award! 🏆 👏👍😀
Watch the Discover Harlow showreel at
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10
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BREAKING NEWS: Town-wide injunction against unauthorised encampments extended for three more years until June 2020 - full details later
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Anywhere you go in
#Harlow
you’re not far from a piece of art and now there’s another piece in the collection with the unveiling of the town’s 100th public sculpture
Twofold by
@nickhornbyart
is the centrepiece of
@Harlow_SP
@harlowez
📲
#sculpturetown
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6
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🌺 Tomorrow, at 11am we will remember
#Harlow
’s fallen
Join us for our live (pre-recorded)
#RemembranceSunday
service
🏡 You you can watch on our Facebook page or our YouTube page from 10.30am
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Our Community Safety team continues to patrol
#Harlow
to make sure everyone keeping away from others and offer advice to people on staying safe.
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5
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A little thank you note from us to the
@Veolia
bin crews who have been out all week in the soaring heat ☀️ The heat has affected the vehicles 🚚 making the job even harder. But they’ve carried on and will be out again tomorrow to complete the week’s recycling collections ♻️
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Seeing social media posts from across the town showing
#Harlow
taking part in
#ClapForOurCarers
We will get through this together
#CommunitySpirit
#ProudOfOurCarers
#ProudOfOurTown
Thank you
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
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@EmmaWillis
@Lancemccarthy
@wchannel
Hi Emma, there are some fantastic caring people working at
@nhsharlow
and we are very proud of them 💕We are glad you had such a great time making new friends in
#Harlow
. Please do come back again
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This mess was dumped in
#Harlow
by someone who came to town all the way from Leicester! 🤬
Fortunately we tracked them down and they ended up being fined over £600 - an expensive little visit!👏👏
Read more about the case at
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Who wants to plant some more trees 🌳 for
#Harlow
?
We're holding another community tree planting day on Sunday 19 January 2020, 10am to 3pm in Sumners Park
Be part of planting our town’s future and do your bit to tackle climate change 🌍
Register at
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@Harlowstar
How about these emojis too for
#Harlow
💻 🖥 birthplace of fibre optic communications
🔬 🧬 science and technology with
@HarlowEZ
🦠💊 soon to be headquarters for Public Health England
🎭 🎨 culture and sculpture
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Well done .
@richchiassaro
#Paralympics
final
#Tokyo2020
You have made us proud once again
On to the 1500m next💪
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Tonight as part of
#BabyLossAwarenessWeek
we remember and honour all of the
#Harlow
babies that have been lost.
If you have lost a baby, you are not alone, please don’t suffer in silence. There is support available
@Petalscharity
#WaveOfLight
#BLAW2020
#YouAreNotAlone
🌸
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9
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We are cleaning up...
Yesterday was day one of a new partnership to tackle envirocrimes in our town like littering 🧃fly-tipping 🛋 dog fouling 💩
54 fines issued in one day - 50 for littering, 2 fly-tipping, 1 household duty of care and 1 dog fouling
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5
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All playgrounds closed until further notice 🚧
We’ve taken the difficult but right decision to close our playgrounds until further notice. These closures are in the interests of everyone’s health & safety and to ensure social distancing and limit the spread of the
#coronavirus
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There's a big weekend of events in
#Harlow
next month! ☺️
There's the Makers Market returning to Market Square on 29/6 🥖🧁🧶📿 and the Carnival 🎉🎈👩🎤👨🎤💃🕺 followed by the 'End of Carnival Show' Show 🎤🎹🥁 on 30/6!
More details over the coming weeks! ❤️
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16
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Poignant memorial flames are lighting up the Civic Centre as we approach
#HMD2020
By Sunday there’ll be 75 on display, each one made by the
#Harlow
community to commemorate 75 years since the end of the Holocaust and the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau
#StandTogether
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#Harlow
’s sculptures are again the talk of the country.
Did you know Harlow has near 90 public sculptures?
All will be part of the new online 🗄 treasure trove of the UK’s publicly owned sculptures.
#sculpturetown
#DidYouKnow
that Harlow, Essex is the world's first officially designated 'Sculpture Town'? It has over 80 public sculptures that you can find on
@artukdotorg
's
#ArtUKSculptureProject
including several in
@GoWaterGardens
outside
@NandosUK
#CultureIsDigital
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A
#ThankYou
thread from us...
As we approach the end of the week we want to thank all those whose hard work and dedication has kept things running in our great town during these challenging times
So that’s a big thank you to...
🔽
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💷 We are delighted that our bid to government for £20m to transform Playhouse and College Square has been successful!
🎸A new live music venue and upgrades to .
@harlowplayhouse
and much more is on the way as part of the Harlow Arts and Cultural Quarter
⬇️
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9
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📢 We’re pleased to announce that there will be 17 stalls for the first ever Harlow Makers Market 🍴🎨 🛠 which takes place in the new-look Market Square on Saturday 17 November 2018.
A variety of unique, handcrafted products made by local people will be on sale
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If you love 💕 looking at old photos 📷 and love 💕 a bit of Harlow history you will love 💕 this exhibition taking place at Harlow Museum 🏫
Full details 🔽
1
18
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Part 2 of the falling poppy 🌺 display in
#Harlow
Poppies made of over 600 recycled plastic bottles scattered in shrubs and pond
@GoWaterGardens
These poppies are a display so please do not remove them
Created by Val Fitz-John
Photos by Brian Thomas
#harlowremembers
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Funding boost for Harlow Playhouse 🎭
The leader of the council
@cllringall
has welcomed the news that our
@harlowplayhouse
theatre is to receive over £500,000 from the Cultural Recovery Fund 🔽
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