News in Maldon

Families in Maldon district receiving free school meals will next benefit from the scheme the county council ran over Christmas during the February half term.

Over the two-week Christmas school holiday, Essex County County (ECC) provided free school meal vouchers worth £30 each for 34,412 eligible children and young people at schools and colleges in the county council's area.

The director of Maldon Festival has slammed the Government over its handling of post-Brexit visa arrangements for musicians after it emerged that a Swedish singer-songwriter and organist will not now appear at this year's event.

It is hoped the annual Maldon Festival will once again go ahead this summer, but director Colin Baldy has spoken out after learning the EU performer will not now appear due to the complications posed by Brexit.

The Covid-19 infection rate in Maldon is now dropping after reaching a peak of more than 1,000 cases per 100,000 people.

The latest complete figures for the seven days up to 6 January show that there were 573 new cases in Maldon district, equal to 882.1 cases per 100,000 population.

A favourite walk I take with the dog is the path along the trackbed of the old Witham to Maldon branch line.

Thanks to the Friends of the Flitch Way, the old platform is nicely preserved, and you can stand at the viewing point from which quite a few photographs were taken of trains stopping at the halt.

IT'S been seven days of big news stories in Maldon, from all the latest local information on the current pandemic crisis to a controversy over a tree and the end to a tragic tale that shook the town.

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

Leylandii trees often prove a controversial topic - and now Maldon district councillors will vote on whether to save a huge specimen that officers believe "plays a significant role within the street scene".

The Tree Preservation Order (TPO) on the conifer in the front garden of a house it appears to dwarf called The Pines, in Franklin Road, North Fambridge, was served by Maldon District Council (MDC) officers last July (2020) after the authority received an enquiry form from someone wanting to have the tree felled (the person is not named).

Update from Maldon Film Club

The committee of Maldon Film Club has been meeting regularly during the last few months and now, in conjunction with Maldon Town Council, has drawn up plans to restart screenings in 2021.

The following is the January 2021 article from Maldon's Limebrook u3a.

Graham Churchill is the Interest Group Leader for Photography at Limebrook u3a. Here in his own words he tells us about a recent activity and the creation of this year's Calendar, showcasing a fantastic selection of photographs taken by members.

A large but often overlooked object on Hythe Quay tells a story of shipwrecked sailors, our island's desperate fight for survival, and a deadly weapon that still threatens sudden death to mariners.

The brightly painted sea mine near the Queen's Head is of one of 60 used at coastal locations to collect donations to the Shipwrecked Mariners' Society.

IT'S been another seven days of big news stories in Maldon, from the story of how firefighters saved motorists from flood waters in two separate rescues in just one afternoon to the declaration of a major incident in Essex as local hospitals struggled under the pressure of the Covid-19 crisis.

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.