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STOURBRIDGE MP Suzanne Webb joined 10-year-old fundraiser Emma Macklin on a walk at the weekend as the youngster continues to raise money for Mary…

Councillors Susan Barker (L, Dunmow) and Ray Gooding ( R, Stansted) - Credit: Genesis PR/Essex County Council The county councillor for Dunmow, Susan Barker, said she is disappointed not to feature on the draft cabinet list amid an Essex-wide shake-up. Essex County Council's cabinet - and new leader Cllr Kevin Bentley - are set to be formally approved later this week. Councillor Susan Barker, Conservative councillor for Dunmow - Credit: Archant Before last Thursday's elections (May 6), both Cllr Barker and neighbouring Stansted councillor Ray Gooding served on the Conservative cabinet. Both...

But the top issue is the strong concern in many communities about overdevelopment.    The inability of Braintree District Council to secure a Local Plan and the way in which communities had little say in the failed “garden communities” (new towns) project has not gone down well.  Planning is important to ensure that the right amount and types of development deliver homes, jobs and services locally.  But in Braintree District that is largely not happening and planning seem to be something ‘done to communities’ and not ‘done with communities’.  The consequences have bee...

Councillor Schmitt’s comments about incineration in her recent letter (Times, April 1) are deeply troubling and outdated. The complacency and inability to address/comprehend the scale of effort required to mitigate just the NEW 600,000 tonnes CO2 a year from Rivenhall incinerator is jaw-dropping. High-profile (and expensive) efforts to boost recycling are undermined by the cabinet member for environment and place talking positively about incineration in the same breath. Only landfill and incineration? There are now multiple technologies that fragment non-recyclable waste for integrati...

Read Article Mountain Valley High School students, from left, Cameron Gallant, Kylee Pelletier, Kierstyn Lyons, Emily Davis and Mackenzie Arsenault, collect debris during a former River Valley Community Clean Up in the Rumford Information Center parking lot. Rumford Falls Times file photo RUMFORD — The River Valley Community Clean Up is back and organizers are asking for volunteers to go block by block and neighborhood by neighborhood in Rumford and Mexico this month. The cleanup will be held from 7 to 11 a.m. Saturday and Sunday, April 24-25. The event is organized close to Earth Day, ...