News in Maldon

If you look over the Blackwater on most days you will see a variety of yachts, motor launches and the occasional stately form of a Thames Sailing Barge.

But on many occasions over the last ninety years you would have seen an armada of ocean-going merchant vessels, lying at anchor in eerie silence.

Have you missed out on any of the news in Maldon this week?

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This week our Car of the Week is this Volvo V60

A modest wooden church building tucked away in Greensted, off the road between Chipping Ongar and Harlow, has claims to be the oldest surviving wooden church in the world.

The church's full title is The Church of St Andrew, Greensted-juxta-Ongar, but it is popularly known simply as Greensted Church.

WORK has resumed on a project to merge the varied transport services that ensure patients in Maldon, Burnham and the Dengie Peninsula can get to appointments.

It's the latest step in amalgamation and unification of many health connected services across the region, where several hospitals - including the former Basildon & Thurrock Hospitals Trust - have already come under one united trust, a move that wasn't achieved without significant opposition from local communities.

At various times in Henry VIII's reign you could be martyred for being too Catholic or too Protestant. Thomas More personally supervised the trial and burning of a number of Protestants, only to end up being beheaded for refusing to acknowledge Henry VIII's authority over the church – and is celebrated as a Catholic saint for this act.

Thomas Abel (or Abell) was executed for the same reason on 30th July 1530 – but unlike More, who received the "mercy" of the headsman's axe, Abel suffered the gruesome death of a traitor: hanging, drawing and quartering.

IT'S been another seven days of big news stories in Maldon, from the council seeking views on putting a Public Space Protection Order (PSPO) in place at the Prom and The Hythe, through to the exciting news that Fiver Fest will return to the town in June.

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BURNHAM-on-Crouch musician, promoter, journalist, blogger and British Blues Awards-nominated broadcaster Tim Aves is bringing the blues back to Maldon's airwaves from Monday, May 31 – with a twist.

Tim will be hosting a new show on Maldon district's Caroline Community Radio at 94.7FM.

MALDON'S ambulance station has received a front garden makeover as thanks for the way staff served the community during the pandemic.

Carol McCafferty and her husband Shaun, who is Chairman of Maldon and Heybridge Horticultural Society, decided to galvanise fellow gardening enthusiasts into action to transform the previously drab spot with new trees and shrubs, perennial and annual plants, as well as an obelisk decorated with a hand-painted wooden bird and a bug hotel.

The Maldon Festival 2021 will take place from 25 June to 11 July - with this year's theme being a 'fresh start'.

The fortnight of events this year will include both art exhibitions and concerts, covering everything from jazz to classical, choral and orchestral.