News in Maldon

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A COUPLE who found a hoard ancient gold coins in Great Baddow using a metal detector - and then failed to declare the find - were sentenced at Chelmsford Magistrates Court today (Friday, 30 April).

The pair were sentenced for offences under the Treasure Act of 1996 after who failing to declare the Iron Age hoard of 933 gold Stater coins.

A POPULAR local garden centre is supporting Suffolk-based designer and author Lucy Hutchings with her edible allotment garden design for the RHS Hampton Court Garden Festival in July.

The plants, including chillies, heirloom tomatoes and edible flowers like nasturtium, are being grown and nurtured in the production nursery at Perrywood Garden Centre in Tiptree.

MALDON District Council has decided to return to a full schedule of face-to-face meetings following the Government's decision not to renew the pandemic legislation allowing them to be held remotely.

However, at the Extraordinary Meeting of the full council debating the issue last night (Thursday, 29 April) one councillor made clear that he felt the Covid-safety measures agreed to by the members were against the Nuremberg Code.

The 1969 film 'Battle of Britain' still has the power to captivate, and it's from this film that we retain enduring images of anxious officers scanning plotting tables as WAAFs moved blocks representing fleets of incoming German bombers and fighters.

Names like North Weald and Hornchurch also linger from the film, which is now closer in time to the year it represents than it is to the present day. Significant sections were filmed at North Weald, and a real wartime hanger was blown up at Duxford for an action sequence of German bombing.

THE Maldon Society is to host an online talk by the district's Conservation Officer on the restoration of 'Chandlers' at 4, Silver Street.

Works to the house have unveiled that it is one of the oldest homes in the town and next Thursday (6 May), Maldon District's Conservation Officer Tim Howson will tell those who join him on Zoom all about the fascinating restoration and what it has revealed about its history.

A BURNHAM mother has told of her worries for her young son's future because of the lack of special school provision within Maldon district.

Maldon is one of only three of the 12 districts in the Essex county area to be entirely without a special school or special education provision. Special schools or specialist provision with mainstream schools offer education for children who would not be able to progress on the usual course of GCSE study.

Maldon district has recorded no Covid-19 cases at all in the latest available seven-day data - and is the only place in England to have done so.

The whole area - from Maldon to Burnham-on-Crouch - covered by the Maldon district shows zero confirmed cases for the week leading up to Friday, 23 April.

A leading Essex doctor has spoken of the urgency of addressing falling fitness levels following a year of lockdown.

The major impact the pandemic has had on physical activity levels across Essex and the urgent need to bring about a county-wide post-Covid upsurge in physical activity has sparked the need to expedite the development of 'Fit for the Future' – a new physical activity scheme being promoted by Essex County Council.

AN application for a new premises licence at The Warwick Arms in Maldon - proposing late nights until 1am on Fridays and Saturdays - will be heard by a licensing sub-committee on Friday (30 April).

The new landlords at the pub, located on the corner of Victoria Road and the High Street, have asked for the following on the licence: