News in Maldon

A MALDON pub facing a review of its licence is alleged to have brought large gatherings and anti-social behaviour to the area during lockdown.

The application to review the licence of The Jolly Sailor pub in Church Street has been made by Maldon District Council's (MDC's) Environmental Health Department and will be heard by MDC's Licensing Sub Committee on Monday, 28 September. The licensees are Alan and Kerry Brett.

IN the first review from Maldon Books writer and booklover Billie-Jean Johnson gives her thoughts on Sarah Moss's new novel, Summerwater

If Sarah Moss's last novel, Ghost Wall, was a product of the earth, then Summerwater is a product of the sky. The lashing storm building throughout the novel seems almost otherworldly, at first shrugged off as ordinary Scottish rain, but forever building in its unnerving relentlessness until it threatens to swallow the characters whole.

THE UK's chief scientists gave a stark update on Covid-19 this morning (Monday, 21 September) – Maldon Nub News provides a summary here.

Chief medical officer, Professor Chris Whitty and the Government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, delivered a joint press conference at 11am.

AMAZING vintage engines and fabulous steampunk outfits were the order of the day at Maldon's Museum of Power yesterday (Sunday, 20 September).

As the sun shone down on the show field of the popular attraction in Hatfield Road, Langford, engineers displayed a variety of machines and the nostalgic scent of a different age hung heavy on the air.

PLANS to make Maldon – and the rest of the county – greener have been revealed by Essex's climate change thinktank.

Three new 'park and choose' and e-cargo bike pilots should be planned as part of Essex County Council's programme to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases being produced by transport in Essex.

A MALDON firm is set to carry out the restoration of the world famous HMS Ganges.

The role of TS Rigging, of Downs Road - boat specialists based in Maldon for more than 20 years - was revealed in a detailed planning application made to Babergh District Council in Suffolk.

MALDON'S Museum of Power will be holding an Essextraordinary Steampunk Market tomorrow (Sunday 20 September) from 10am to 4pm.

The event at the popular attraction in Hatfield Road, Langford, will be held on the museum's large show field with stallholders selling steampunk Victorian and sci-fi clothes, jewellery, crafts, crystals and jewels, toys, cards and stationery and artwork.

ANY Maldon people planning a trip to Southend this weekend should take heed of a safety warning issued by Essex RNLI.

The lifeboat charity fears visitors could be stranded on the mudflats, cut off by unusually high spring tides.

MALDON district's RNLI lifeboat station at Burnham-on-Crouch was a stopping off point for two cyclists who are making their way round the entire English and Welsh coasts for the charity.

Kate Bourn and Beth Barratt have taken on the 1,500-mile journey as both were furloughed – and decided they wanted to fill their time with a purpose.

A MALDON man has been given a restraining order after he admitted stalking a woman in north east London.

Alan Woods, 52, of Lake Mead, was sentenced at Barkingside Magistrates' Court on Tuesday, 8 September to a five-year restraining order against the victim and 200 hours unpaid work after he pleaded guilty to the charge.