News in Maldon

MALDON residents visiting A&E this winter will find more room for social distancing after a £4.8million emergency grant to make more space.

The government cash is to be shared between Broomfield Hospital and Basildon in a bid to create a larger area for patients in the emergency departments.

IN the fields of the Maldon district the crops are being harvested and the illegal sport of hare coursing is at its height.

Now Essex Police hopes the community will continue to help in the fight against a cruel crime that harms wildlife, damages young crops and land and sees dogs badly treated.

FIGURES show that out of the 211 Covid-related care home deaths registered in the county since the start of the pandemic, a total of four were in the Maldon district.

The county numbers do not include care home deaths in Thurrock or Southend as these are separate unitary authorities.

AN engineering firm opening in Maldon is bringing 100 new jobs to the town.

Advanced Diesel Engineering is now looking for people to fill a range of roles at the site in Galliford Road – from reception and back office staff to welders, electricians, spray painters, stores persons, sales reps and design engineers.

A NEW weather warning of thunderstorms and heavy rain for the Maldon district area has been

Storms are expected in the East of England between 11am and 8pm, but are forecast to be most

A NEW report suggests a Maldon district councillor has acted in breach of the council's code of conduct – the fifth in less than a month.

However, the report has been written by the council's deputy monitoring officer, Stuart Jennings - and now a council committee will need to decide whether its conclusions stand.

IT has been revealed that Maldon has missed out on an opportunity for government cash to help reduce congestion and make the town centre greener and healthier – despite 2019 claims that Market Hill has one of the worst air pollution records in the country.

Essex County Council (ECC) has announced that earlier this month it put forward an "ambitious and transformational" bid for Department for Transport funds to create new safe walking and cycling routes in cities and towns across the county. These included Chelmsford, Colchester, Wickford, Brentwood and Braintree – but not Maldon.

MALDON residents heard earlier this week how the town centre policing team is tackling drug dealing head on – now details of a separate Essex Police operation to tackle the supply of drugs from London into the county has emerged.

A man has been arrested and a large amount of cash seized as part of an investigation linked to Operation Venetic and the cracking of specially encrypted phones.

MALDON men will be among those to benefit from a lifesaving wristband scheme being piloted in mid Essex.

The introduction of a wristband for men who have abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) could help save their lives in an emergency.

A Report on the Transition School for new Year 11 GCSE Students at the Plume Academy, Maldon – by Ash Stoneman, Assistant Vice Principal and Fambridge Road Campus Lead.

As a direct result of the rapid escalation of the COVID-19 pandemic that led to the closure of schools to the vast majority of students across the country in March 2020, many Year 10 GCSE students faced the prospect of heading into Year 11 having missed a great deal of actual face-to-face teaching.