News in Maldon

MALDON has partnered up with four other districts across the county to help bring about an end to homelessness throughout the area.

The Essex Rough Sleeper Outreach Service was launched last September – and has now been able to make the most of the situation brought about by the pandemic – where rough sleepers were brought in off the streets into emergency accommodation.

MALDON town centre will be lit up in pink and blue from tomorrow (Friday, 9 October) at night as part of Baby Loss Awareness Week.

Behind the moving display in Maldon this year is Dave Ridgewell, manager at William H Brown estate agents in the High Street. Dave and his wife Abby, who live in Heybridge, lost their beautiful baby son Max in November last year, just one day after he was born. Abby had suffered complications during labour which meant that Max could not survive.

AN art exhibition is currently showing in Maldon.

The 'Unlocked' exhibition at the Maeldune Heritage Centre will give a group of East Anglian artists a valuable chance to showcase their work after the struggles presented by the Covid-19 pandemic.

A MALDON business is among the latest to benefit from a Love Essex micro-grant – and now individuals and organisations across the district are invited again to apply for cash from the fund set up to help reduce household waste.

Silo, the zero-waste store in Bright's Path, Maldon, was among 14 projects county-wide to receive a micro-grant in the last round of Love Essex funding.

WITH the resignation of yet another Maldon District councillor from the authority's Conservative group yesterday (Tuesday, October 6), Maldon Nub News takes a closer look at the political make-up now – and how it was when voters last had their say.

After the local elections of May 2019, there were 17 Conservative Party councillors and 14 Independent councillors.

MALDON District Council has launched a public consultation on the future of the town's High Street.

Draft proposals included with the survey put forward the closure of Maldon High Street to non-essential cars, vans and other motorised vehicles.

THE Jammers and the Burnham Ramblers have both been awarded Premier League grants to help them adapt to new Covid-safe rules.

Maldon and Tiptree Football Club (The Jammers) has been given £7,000 and Burnham Ramblers Football Club has £2,000 from the Matchday Support Fund.

POLICE found controlled drugs at two addresses in Great Totham, near Maldon, yesterday (Monday, 5 October).

The properties were searched after concerns were raised that drugs were being used and produced around children.

PROBLEMS getting through at a Maldon GP practice are largely down to its telephone system, according to health chiefs.

A high volume of patients trying to call Blackwater Medical Centre are phoning in as doctors are busy phoning out, making socially-distanced consultations.

A MALDON church is now graced with a beautiful organ that it is hoped will provide music for centuries to come.

And the fabulous structure installed at St Mary's Church bears a magical musical star – called a Zimbelstern – in memory of former Maldon Festival manager Kieran Sampson, who died suddenly in February, 2019, aged just 38.