A Dunmow woman has marked 50 years of service to the town's scout group in a celebration attended by about 100 people.

A care home in Great Easton has been rated 'inadequate' by inspectors from the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Improvements are required in the quality of education at Helena Romanes School, government inspectors have said.

The 320,000 homeless people in the UK were remembered at this year's live nativity in Dunmow, in front of a record crowd.

Retirement developer McCarthy and Stone has submitted plans for 29 flats in Dunmow.

A man with prostate cancer had his head shaved in Great Dunmow last Friday to raise money for Cancer Research.

The Green Party has accused the district council's ruling administration of lacking transparency after one of its councillors stepped down from a board that oversees millions of pounds worth of council investments.

The owner of a mobile fish and chip van has decided to give something back to the emergency services with a new queue-jumping initiative.

Children stood on a 'pop-up' zebra crossing demanding a permanent one outside their school.

A fire in a derelict bungalow in Little Dunmow could have been set off deliberately the fire service has said - after Uttlesford District Council was criticised for leaving derelict buildings as a target for vandals.

A Bupa care home in Braintree Road, Great Dunmow is opening its doors to elderly people in the community who face Christmas Day alone this year.

More than 3,000 people celebrated the switch on of the Christmas lights in Great Dunmow on Saturday, launching the town into the festive spirit with a day of entertainment and activities.

Pupils and staff at Great Dunmow Primary School raised £820 for Children in Need in a fundraising event on Friday.

The Great Dunmow Carnival committee have thanked the town's residents after £1,500 raised from the event's bucket collection was donated to three charities.

A teenager barely able to walk has danced all night at a charity ball after life-saving surgery.

A new deli food and juice bar, Seedy Blenders, has opened in Dunmow.

Communities will fall silent across Uttlesford on Sunday as services are held to honour the fallen.

Chelsea Football Club has offered the Save Our Maddi campaign the chance to benefit from the bucket collection at the match with West Ham.

The game will be at Stamford Bridge on Saturday, November 30.

A hospice's medical director, its chairman of trustees and its fundraiser are trekking 95 kilometres off road in Cambodia to raise funds for patients.

A motorist who caused the death of a Dunmow grandfather by driving dangerously on the M11 has been jailed for more than four years.

Officers investigating a burglary in Dunmow have issued an e-fit image of a man they would like to trace.

A driver has admitted causing a collision on the M11 which resulted in the death of a motorcyclist from Dunmow.

Essex Police have releasing CCTV of a man they would like to speak to in connection with a theft in Dunmow.

Uttlesford District Council has announced the winners of this year's garden competition.

A Dunmow man is offering a reward for the return of a family heirloom which he believes was taken from a gym in the town.

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

A Dunmow primary school could be set to expand in order to accommodate 60 extra pupils over the next two years, "to help meet an immediate need for school places in the area".

The long wait was over for pupils in Dunmow as they collected their A Level results today (Thursday).

Free sessions in Dunmow and Thaxted are being offered to seniors and disabled people to help sharpen up their digital and online skills.

Dunmow Rotary Club has raised £700 for a group of west Essex guides and rangers, for a trip to a jamboree in Croatia.