Have you seen our newspaper advert seeking CPRE Essex volunteers?
Tuesday 30 January 2024
We are now into the second week of CPRE Essex’s advertising campaign to recruit volunteers for our charity. We have run adverts in the Braintree & Witham Times, Epping Forest Guardian and Your Local Guardian newspapers in the two editions dated January 18 and January 25. Media company Newsquest has also been carrying our advert […] Read more >
Covid can’t keep a good photographer down
Tuesday 30 January 2024
You might have missed photographer Gordon Ridgewell’s delightful images over recent weeks and wondered where he’d got to. Wonder no more – the mystery has been solved… He tells us: “I am back to normal after the dreaded Covid pulled me down over the Christmas period. “The other day I went down to [wife] Megan’s […] Read more >
A12 widening wins government consent
Tuesday 30 January 2024
The A12 is to be widened to three lanes between Hatfield Peverel and Marks Tey. Huw Merriman, Minister of State for Transport, has granted a Development Consent Order (DCO) for the widening between junctions 20a and 25. His decision and reasons were announced this month (Friday, January 12) in a 78-page letter. CPRE Essex was […] Read more >
Watch out for our adverts seeking new volunteers in newspapers and on Facebook
Thursday 11 January 2024
CPRE Essex is constantly looking for volunteers to help in the bid to protect and enhance our county’s beautiful countryside – and as part of this we are launching a recruitment campaign across local media. We are running adverts in the Braintree & Witham Times, Epping Forest Guardian and Your Local Guardian newspapers in the […] Read more >
Former CPRE Essex vice-president Robert awarded British Empire Medal
Monday 8 January 2024
Many of the good folk of Essex will be returning to work today (Monday, January 8), so what better time to announce some wonderful and uplifting news? It was announced in this year’s New Year Honours List that ardent Essex conservationist Robert Erith TD DL had been awarded a British Empire Medal for services to […] Read more >