THE world’s leading maze-maker to give the keynote speech at the Saffron Walden Maze Festival.

UTTLESFORD District Council officially appointed a new chairman at its annual meeting on Tuesday.

THE region’s under-fire ambulance service has announced a new interim chairman.

OLYMPIC medallist Chloe Rogers will open the Hatfield Broad Oak 10k road race, it was announced this week.

AS a special documentary is screened to coincide with the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the US Army Air Force arriving at RAF Duxford in April 1943, Saffron Walden residents look back on their memories of the US Servicemen stationed in Debden.

FELSTED entertained the crowds at the Essex Young Farmers’ Show on Sunday with its fantastic Steel Bands.

A PROLIFIC fund-raising club has celebrated an important milestone in its history by handing over £1,500 to support injured soldiers.

THE true state of Essex’s roads has been revealed after nearly 32,000 road defects including potholes were reported in just 12 months.

ESSEX County Council is planning to temporarily close a section of Duck Street in Little Easton, near Great Dunmow, to enable BT to carry out overhead cabling works.

ESSEX County Council is planning to temporarily close a section of the A1060 to enable it to carry out essential highway maintenance works.

MORE than 2,000 different pieces of art created by children from Nursery to Year 6 are on display at the Dame Bradbury’s School annual Art Exhibition, ‘World of Art’.

SWIFT action by two mothers from Bannister Green has saved the natural habitat of breeding birds and animals from being destroyed.

DRESSING-up hats and clothes were brought along to Dunmow library by St Clare Hospice, while the charity also provided children with goody bags, balloons and colouring books.

WANNABE witches and wizards ‘flew’ into Saffron Walden Museum on broomsticks as they took part in a one-day drama workshop to mark the end of the Witch Hunt exhibition.

RESIDENTS have been asked for their opinions about what to do with a piece of land which backs on to a primary school.

CHAMPAGNE erupted after three women completed a gruelling 190-mile trek from coast to coast by combination of foot and hoof.

A PROMINENT fundraising and social group will celebrate its 50th anniversary tomorrow (Friday May 17).

DUNMOW Town Council appointed a new mayor at the town’s annual meeting last week.

Actress Anna Karen is famous for her iconic appearances as Olive from TV sitcom On The Buses. Many will also know her as Aunt Sal (Peggy Mitchell’s sister) on EastEnders.

A GROUP of friends will be pounding the streets of the capital later this month to raise money for the neonatal unit at Broomfield Hospital.