News in Maldon

The new property in High Street, Maldon

A Maldon town councillor has spoken of her outrage at those who ask for planning permission after building work has gone ahead.

Councillor Carlie Mayes spoke out at a meeting of Maldon Town Council's Planning Committee yesterday (Monday, 16 November) evening when debating a planning application to add roof windows to a new single-storey building to the rear of 119, High Street. The development sits within a designated Conservation Area.

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A NEW app has been launched today (Monday, 16 November) to help Essex parents and carers know what to do when their child is ill.

The app, called the NHS Essex Child Health App, has been created using the knowledge and skills of doctors and other child health care experts from across the county. It provides self-care tips and advice to the parents and carers of children aged 0 to 11.

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A picture produced by a Photoshop group member

Paul Madge, a Past Chair of Limebrook U3A, organises and leads the Limebrook U3A Photoshop Group. Here in his own words and photographs from some of the members, he tells us more.

It's one of the great advantages of retirement that you have time to indulge in hobbies that you know are likely to become time-consuming. It's one of the great advantages of being in a U3A that you can easily find other people who share the same interest. So it was with the Photoshop group (Using the Adobe photoshop elements program).

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Everyone will have lasting memories of the turbulence of 2020 but for many it will be the year that they discovered their natural surroundings. In Maldon we are fortunate that we have a variety of places to walk and explore and if you visit the outdoors enough you will soon find what you are naturally drawn to. Where you feel most uplifted or restored.

Some people discover they like the tranquillity of the ancient woodlands that cover much of Danbury whilst others feel most at home with the huge expanse of skies along the sea wall.

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Vanguard after its launch

THE charity behind the restoration of Vanguard, the beautiful oyster dredger that helped rescue hundreds from the beaches of Dunkirk, is launching an appeal to find the soldiers – or the families of the soldiers - she helped to save. It is also launching an appeal to secure the necessary funding to rebuild Vanguard at a training college in Lowestoft.

Vanguard Restoration Foundation spokesperson, Nick Skeens, says: "Teaming up with Lowestoft's International Boatbuilding Training College means we will now be able to restore Vanguard to the condition she was in when she joined two other boats from Burnham-on-Crouch in Essex to rescue soldiers from the Dunkirk beaches. We are appealing to the public to help us secure the necessary money."

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