News in Maldon

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

IT'S been another seven days of big news stories in Maldon, from the story of how rapid Covid tests could soon be available in Maldon, through to the sudden resignation of the former leader of Maldon District Council.

The sudden resignation of former council leader Elaine Bamford has left a further change in the political balance at Maldon District Council.

As Ms Bamford's resignation is not only from her role as Conservative group leader, but also as a council member, the total number of Tories is now 14.

THE WW1 Aviation Heritage Trust – which keeps its aircraft at Maldon district's Stow Maries First World War aerodrome – will use a £24,000 heritage lifeline grant to service and repair the two planes so they can fly again next year.

In the week that marks 101 years since the end of World War One, the Government grant has been welcomed by Dick Forsythe, Chief Trustee, who told Maldon Nub News: "We will be getting the planes – our BE2 and Albatross – serviced and trying to expand our education remit.

A Maldon lingerie shop has won a national award for the care it provides to women who are recovering from breast cancer surgery.

The Bra Consultancy in Edward's Walk, Maldon, has been awarded The Stars Underlines Special Care Recognition Award 2020.

A new book on the life of one of Maldon's most famous historic characters will be published in December.

Thomas Plume, founder of Maldon's Plume Library and the man who the local secondary school is named after, was born in the town in 1630 and went on to lead a prominent and fascinating life.

HISTORIC Creeksea Place in Burnham-on-Crouch will receive £499,765 from the Government's Heritage Stimulus Fund to help preserve the site's future in the wake of the pandemic.

The cash, distributed by Historic England, is a capital reconstruction grant for the Tudor mansion and gardens, which was used in the filming of the BBC's production of Great Expectations.

Before I started writing this week's reflection on the news in Maldon this week, I already knew it was going to be more of a plea.

Of course, one story has dominated the national news this week, while another has dominated the international stage.

On the edge of Maldon District, nine miles from the town, lies one of the Essex coast's most unusual landscapes. The extraordinary patchwork of salt marshes, with narrow walkways weaving between a maze of tidal pools, was unknown to most people outside Essex until the opening seconds of the ITV drama 'Liar' gained it national attention with an extraordinary aerial shot.

Like Maldon, the tidal marshes were once the site of salt production in Iron Age and Roman times, leading to the characteristic red hills found nearby. The marshes are now designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest with 590 acres of saltmarsh, mudflats, reed beds and grazing marsh teeming with wildlife.

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.