News in Maldon

Maldon Nub News is delighted to announce that Churchward Car Sales Limited is to become our first sponsor of the Classifieds section.

The move comes as Director Jack Hylton opens his first showroom in Maldon, with two spacious floors filled with cars ranging from £4,000 to £60,000.

The owner of Maldon Books has won a prestigious national award that celebrates her inspirational business success at just 26 years of age.

Olivia Rosenthall, who owns the popular shop in High Street, Maldon, is one of the five winners of the sixth annual Trailblazer Awards announced this week.

Thanks to the film 'Braveheart' and its stirring portrayal of the defeat of the English at Bannockburn in 1314, Robert the Bruce has entered into legend as a uniquely Scottish hero.

Born in 1274, he was crowned King of Scots in 1306. He died in Dunbartonshire in 1329. But in 2018, historian Fiona Watson argued that he was actually an Essex boy, born in Writtle. This kicked off a fresh Anglo-Scottish rumpus, not least because a claim like this would be comparable to the French suggesting that Wellington was born in Boulogne.

The owners of Crouch Ridge Vineyard have a wait of up to five working days to find out whether they can extend their opening hours after a licensing meeting heard arguments for and against the plans.

The vineyard has applied to extend its wine barn license to allow sales and drinking of the produce on the premises up to 11pm each day. The venue in Althorne hopes to hold wine-tasting and wine and food pairing evenings.

Businesses looking for an attractive 2021 venue for events and attractions are being invited to apply for opportunities at Maldon's Promenade Park, Hythe Quay and Riverside Park in Burnham-on-Crouch.

Applications to put on events or attractions are also being invited for any other district open spaces - and "something different" could be a good thing.

District councillors have voted to give the green light to the creation of a new wetland habitat for wildfowl and waders at a nature reserve close to the River Crouch.

Maldon Nub News reported last week how Essex Wildlife Trust, which owns Blue House Farm nature reserve, east of North Fambridge, had submitted project plans to Maldon District Council for the 20-hectare area, currently grassland.

Essex Police have played down what appears to be a growing concern among dog owners in the region over the theft of their pets.

The force spoke out yesterday (Wednesday, 10 March) after seeing social media sites across the county report a rise in the number of incidents - and only last week a dog was snatched from its home, though, in the end there was a happy ending.

A drift of more than 2,000 purple crocuses have been planted by members of Maldon Rotary Club and Maldon in Bloom volunteers to remind visitors to Promenade Park of Rotary's commitment to the eradication of the Polio virus.

Polio has been all but eliminated worldwide thanks to a 30-year programme of immunisation initiated by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and supported every step of the way by Rotarians.

Maldon district has the lowest smoke alarm ownership in Essex, research carried out by Essex County Fire and Rescue Service (ECFRS) has found - and firefighters are urging residents who do not have one on every level of their home to claim them for free.

ECFRS carried out a survey across Essex to find out how many people had working smoke alarms.

Could empty and neglected buildings across Maldon, Burnham and the villages of the Dengie Peninsula have a new future as community-owned spaces – run for the benefit of local people?

Here Nub News takes a closer look at a new fund that could make some of those dreams a reality as the community emerges from the Covid-19 pandemic.