News in Maldon

PRIME Minister Boris Johnson is expected to announce within the next hour a national lockdown lasting until 2 December and starting from Thursday (5 November).

The expected all-England lockdown comes as the number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in the UK reaches 1 million.

A retired journalist, Joseph Canning has written 12 books and over a million words chronicling the lives of ordinary people working the land in times past, as well as more recent turbulent events.

Joseph was born in north London in February 1940, but was quickly moved to Goldhanger, his mother's home village, to escape the Blitz. There the family lived in a deserted bakehouse in Fish Street, with no electricity, and water collected from the village pump. He went to the village school, and then to Maldon Grammar School.

Maldon Nub News talks to Charlie Pitcher, the Burnham-on-Crouch ocean rowing expert who plays a starring role in a new reality TV show starting at 9pm on Monday (2 November) evening.

Even on a computer screen, it's clear Charlie Pitcher is a man full of energy and enthusiasm as he scrambles to join our Zoom meeting in the middle of another busy day where boats and the sea take centre stage.

MALDON district has its very own spooky display this Halloween - to raise funds for the area's air ambulance service.

Halloween Display in Burnham on Crouch is going ahead again this year with even more props, static and moving, speaking and scary animatronics.

A person who died after being hit by a train in Essex a week ago had run away from the mid-Essex mental health unit currently being prosecuted for an alleged safety breach.

The death on Friday, October 23, places more pressure on the Linden Centre, Chelmsford, which is also currently subject to an independent review commissioned by health minister Nadine Dorries over a series of deaths spanning seven years.

CONVICTED murderer Jeremy Bamber has lost his fight to have his prison status downgraded from maximum Category A.

The infamous killer was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his adoptive mother and father, sister and her twin sons, aged just six at the time of the killings in 1985. The five family members were shot dead at White House Farm in Tolleshunt D'Arcy, home of the adoptive parents, Nevill and June Bamber.

Maldon Nub News has exclusively teamed up with education experts, Talk Education, to offer advice and top tips if parents are struggling what to do with the kids this half-term.

If at this point in your half-term holiday, you're feeling frazzled, exhausted and wondering why all those plans for a relaxed and happy family week have evaporated, you're not alone. Despite the jolly orange pumpkins and Instagrammable autumn leaves, it can still be a tough time. The darker evenings haven't helped what is for many an unsettled time as we wonder where Covid takes us from here.

A MALDON artist is exhibiting his work at The Maeldune Centre in the attraction's last art exhibition of the year.

The show by local resident George Kowzan at the centre in the High Street will run until Tuesday, November 17, and will be followed by the centre's Christmas market, showcasing a range of art, crafts and local produce for sale.

THE Covid-19 weekly infection rate for Maldon district has risen to 69.3 per 100,00 people in the latest figures released by the county's public health chiefs.

The new figure is for the seven days to last Thursday (22 October) and compares to 49.3 per 100,000 for the week before that (ending on Thursday, 15 October).

MONTHS of political upheaval at Maldon District Council (MDC) will reach a climax next week with a meeting that will decide who the new leader and deputy leader of the authority will be until May 2021.

The council's Annual Meeting (also known as the Statutory Annual Meeting) will be held on Thursday, 5 November at 6pm. The agenda published today on the council's website contains an item where members will be asked to vote to either ratify current council leader designate, Conservative Councillor Elaine Bamford, as leader – or to elect a new leader.