News in Maldon

Although Southminster is only 75 minutes' train ride from the middle of London, if you stand at St. Peter on the Wall, just a few miles away, you could think you were at the edge of the world. There is an eerie stillness and beauty to this spot like no other place I know.

The chapel of St Peter at Bradwell is built on the gatehouse of the Roman fort of Othona (or Ithancaster) by the Saxon Bishop Cedd in around 654 AD. Clearly this accounts for the "on the Wall" name, but it also recalls the fact that Othona was part of an Eastward-facing "wall" of shore fortifications as elaborate as Hadrian's Wall in the north.

IT'S been another seven days of big news stories in Maldon – not least when filming got underway for The Essex Serpent and parts of the town were transformed as if they had travelled back in a time machine.

Here at Nub News we like to make your life easier so if you've missed any of the local news this week, don't worry.

Each weekend, Maldon Nub News will bring you Car of the Week from Churchward Car Sales at Wycke Hill Business Park, Maldon.

This week our Car of the Week is this great Mercedes-Benz C Class Estate 2.1 C250 CDI Blueefficiency Sport Edition 125 G-TRONIC 5-Door (2011), priced at £11,490.

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.

Everyone is finding it tough at the moment and wants life to get back to normal.

You don't have to go to Devon or Cornwall to find a coast rich in legends of smuggling: our local coastline has a heritage replete with smugglers' inns, secret tunnels and cellars and silent visitors to remote creeks and village hiding places.

Brexit has made payment of import duties something of a hot topic these days, but it is nothing new. Governments have always tried to levy duties on imported goods, and traders and customers have always tried to evade paying them, particularly in times when these duties have generally been seen as excessive.

IT'S been another seven days of big news stories in Maldon, from news that filming for a TV drama has started in the town, through to a tense council debate about the local food banks.

Here at Nub News we like to make your life easier so if you've missed any of the news in Maldon this week, don't worry.

Each weekend, Maldon Nub News will bring you Car of the Week from Churchward Car Sales at Wycke Hill Business Park, Maldon.

This week our Car of the Week is this great VAUXHALL VIVA HATCHBACK 1.0I SE 5DR AC (2016) - priced at £4,950.

Notices of the local elections on Thursday, 6 May have now been posted on the Maldon District Council website - and nomination papers must be received no later than 4pm on Thursday, 8 April.

The elections will be for the following:

Health Secretary Matt Hancock has recorded this video message praising the "incredible achievement" of all those involved in the Covid-19 vaccination rollout across mid Essex.

Revealing that a third of all people in the area have now received their first dose of a Covid vaccine, Mr Hancock gives a special "shout out" to Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford City Racecourse, the vaccine hub at Maldon District Council and the GP surgeries taking part.

Thanks to 'Dad's Army', Britain's Home Guard is well known. But far fewer people are aware of a shadowy army of trained resistance fighters whose role in the event of invasion was to disappear, and for two weeks (their anticipated life span) create havoc behind German lines.

In the dangerous summer months of 1940 invasion was a real possibility, and the army – desperately short of equipment after Dunkirk – would have had a tough time.