News in Maldon

The town council has launched an appeal for Maldon veterans of the Second World War to come forward to tell their stories.

On the 75th anniversary of the signing of the treaty that finally ended the war on 2 September, 1945, Maldon Town Council has put out the call for servicemen and women who took part in the 1939-1945 conflict. The plan is to record their first-hand stories as part of an online film to be released on the council's website on Remembrance Sunday (8 November).

A 47-year-old man was seriously injured in a motorbike accident in Woodham Walter.

Police are appealing for witnesses or dash cam footage of the crash in London Road at around 2.50pm yesterday (Tuesday, 1 September).

A NEW socially distanced coffee morning is being launched in Maldon for people who want an extra safe place to chat.

The weekly sessions, which will have enhanced Covid safety measures in place, will run from 10am to midday on Wednesdays, starting September 9.

A WIDE range of support to help get youngsters back into school is on offer to families in the Maldon district.

In the week where schools and colleges reopen, it is feared that up to a quarter of children nationally will not yet return to school – with many kept at home by their parents.

MALDON will see a greater return to a 'new normal' this week more than five months after full lockdown.

Schools will reopen to all year groups in the area in the coming days. Detailed advice on Covid safety measures has been provided to parents, carers and students.

ARMED police and a police helicopter were used to search Maldon yesterday (Sunday, 31 August) after reports that a man could have a gun and a knife.

Police teams rushed to the town at around 5.55pm after they were told that one man had been attacked by another, who was possibly in possession of a knife and a firearm.

AN award-winning photographer who has walked almost the entire 6,600 miles of British coastline found the Maldon to Burnham stretch much more extraordinary than he imagined.

Quintin Lake, 45, who reached Burnham on Saturday (28 August) said: "The Dengie marshes are completely unique.

MALDON'S Anglo-Saxon heritage is well-known, but there are older Iron Age and Roman roots very close by.

Heybridge land used for a new housing estate in the mid-nineties revealed an ancient past.

Maldon Nub News aims to be supportive to EVERY element of the community from business and shops to people and charities and clubs and sports organisations.

We will be profiling some of these local businesses and groups regularly over coming weeks in a feature called UP CLOSE IN MALDON in the hope that we can be a supportive springboard for your full return to business as usual.

THERE have been some big stories in Maldon this week from revelations of an ongoing police drug-busting operation to the illegal shooting of a bird of prey.

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