Conservative Eastern Region MEP’s , Geoffrey Van Orden and Vicky Ford are extending invitations to local businesses of all sizes to an important conference to be held at Clare College in Cambridge on 15th March.
The event will be attended by leading members of the Shadow Cabinet and experts in EU
funding programmes. This will be an excellent opportunity to hear about possible developments in business policy and to get a clear, down-to-earth explanation of how you could get EU funds for your business.
Geoffrey explained: “2010 is going to be an important year in British politics and of particular significance for local businesses. If you run a business or have any interest in these issues, you would be warmly welcome to attend”.
Fore more information please email Geoffrey here or call his office on +32 (0)2 284 7332. Alternatively, you can visit his website here.
Epping’s renowned Club One9Five will reopen on Friday 26th February after Epping Forest District Council’s licensing sub-committee issued the nightclub a new license today.
The club’s license was revoked and subsequently closed following a serious incident outside of the venue on Sunday 26th September 2009 in which 8 people were stabbed and a number of others injured. The committee announced at 12.45pm that a decision had been made to issue a new license following Club One9Five’s change in management and promises to make changes to safety and security procedures.
For those of you who don’t understand the depths of the Licensing Act 2003, if a new management t
eam apply for a new license, any of the historic criminal activity or generic trouble associated with the old licensees has to be disregarded by the committee whilst considering the new application.
To view Club One9Five’s application form and the letters received from local business and residents, please click here.
Epping’s Belgique Café located in High Street has received an official food safety management warning from Epping Forest District Council’s environmental health officers this week, after an inspection found that shrimps, cheese and ham were all out of date, in one case, by more than a month.
At a hearing at Harlow Magistrates’ Court, the food was ordered to be condemned and destroyed, with the café chain told to pay costs.
A Council spokesman said: "Two hygiene and improvement notices have been issued to Belgique on ‘food management safety’ and ‘staff training’. They have 14 days to comply with the notices and failure to do so could lead to prosecution."
Three gentlemen from Epping Forest, Frankie Stedman, 26, of Cunningham Rise, North Weald, John Esqulant, 52, of Blackacre Road, Theydon Bois and Columbian national Fernando Hurtado, 41, of Waltham Abbey have been sentenced to a combined 65 years in prison after the Serious Organised Crime Agency 
uncovered a drug operation involving £80m worth of cocaine (299 kilos).
Hurtado and Esqulant have now been found guilty of conspiracy to supply cocaine at Leicester Crown Court where they were sentenced to 28 years' imprisonment. Stedman, who was arrested on June 18, 2009 as he stepped off a plane at Heathrow Airport, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply cocaine and was jailed for 9 years.
A spokesman for SOCA said: "These men thought they could make a lot of money through drug trafficking but they were wrong. Our officers were one step ahead of them and made sure their plan failed. SOCA is investigating the gang's finances. A confiscation hearing will take place later this year.”
