Three new garden towns in Uttlesford will receive a share of £3.7million of funding from the Government to “fast-track specialist survey work and planning works” necessary for each new town’s development.

Grave safety concerns over a crossing used by children and cyclists were raised at a Dunmow Town Council meeting.

Permission to build a bin lorry depot and classic car restoration business on the outskirts of Dunmow will be sought in the next few weeks, landowners have said.

A new wellness centre offering pilates and yoga classes could be joining Dunmow’s High Street.

The reverend at St Mary’s Church in Dunmow has been appointed the new Archdeacon of Colchester.

A former mayor of Dunmow, who once managed a rubber plant in Malaysia and arranged for the town to be twinned with the capital of a pacific ocean island, has died, aged 79.

A marathon stint on a rowing machine to raise funds for a maternity unit has put a personal trainer from Dunmow, into the world top 10 for his age group.

Those were the days. 1965 and Idle Jack had to be fetched back from the boozer during the interval, so he could go on for the second half.

The show had to go on - and during the 1950s it did once, during a power cut.

Stansted Airport’s longest serving employee has done it all; from body searching a rock star to going to A&E for a tetanus jab after being bitten by a particularly hostile passenger, her job has never lacked for variety.

Children from primary schools in Dunmow and the surrounding villages have been treading the boards for their Christmas shows.

The results of a survey which could shape the future of Dunmow market will be released in January, it has been announced.

A Dunmow man who was part of a gang which committed more than 200 burglaries - including some in Essex - during an 11-month crime spree has been jailed for six-and-a-half years.

An army veteran and father-of-two who served in Iraq and met Prince Harry, swam 20 kilometres in 11 hours at a Dunmow gym for charity.

Over five days, Eileen Sherwood has ridden 500km (the equivalent of 12 marathons) on a bike at the gym for Children in Need.

Crimestoppers is appealing for information after a series of major cable thefts over the last three months in Dunmow and other areas of Essex.

A festival of remembrance, with music from the Dunmow Wind Band and primary school pupils, was held on Saturday in Dunmow, to mark 100 years since the First World War armistice.

Parking in Saffron Walden and Great Dunmow over the Christmas period will be free after 3pm in all council car parks, except Fairycroft Road.

Paintings by primary school children, inspired by First World War artist Paul Nash, are on display in Great Dunmow Library until Christmas.

Dunmow hosted the annual meeting of the Essex and Suffolk Twinning Congress on October 13.

A grandfather who was offered a job as one of the Queen’s clock makers in Buckingham Palace is celebrating half a century at G.W Blower jewellers in Dunmow.

More than 200 people took part in the eighth annual Dunmow Big Draw on October 13.

Six local businesses attended a free workshop on October 1 in Dunmow about how they can use the internet to improve their business and compete against online stores.

Plans which could see the weekly market in Dunmow change location and day have been met with reservations by councillors.

A Little Dunmow chef has joined the ranks of the world’s most talented culinary innovators by becoming a member of the World Master Chefs Society.

Uttlesford District Council has revoked the licence of a restaurant in Dunmow after illegal workers were found on the premises for a fourth time in five years.

A butcher is hanging up his apron and laying down his knives after 50 years at Sweetlands in Dunmow.

With the Government changing how GCSEs are graded, it has meant that students will be receiving their results numerically as opposed to using letters.

The new system means that students are graded from 9 to 1, where a 7 is anchored at an old grade A, a 4 is a low C and a 1 equates to a grade G.

Members of the Dunmow & District Branch of the Royal British Legion joined thousands on a pilgrimage to Belgium to mark 90 years since 11,000 First World War veterans and war widows visited the battlefields of the Somme and Ypres.

A motorist remains in a serious condition in hospital following a collision near Dunmow on Saturday.

The manager of an estate agency in Dunmow has raised more than £600 for East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH) after cycling 223 miles over three days.