News in Maldon

IT'S been another seven days of big news stories in Maldon, from new initiatives to support residents in need with supplies through to plans to create a new wildfowl wetland.

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In this week's Up Close in Maldon we talk to Lynne Raymond about the video she has made to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the birth of Edward Bright, the famous Fat Man of Maldon.

Lynne, who many will know from Ansell & Sons at 5, High Street – where her son Paul Raymond is now the Master Butcher – tells here of how her passion for local history grew from her astonishing discoveries about the past of the family business and how she believes a knowledge of the past is crucial to an understanding of the present.

The air ambulance serving Maldon is looking for 60 people to help it raise £30,000 so that the charity's critical care teams can continue carrying blood to patients who need it most.

Each year Essex and Herts Air Ambulance Trust (EHAAT) treats approximately 60 people in need of a potentially life-saving blood transfusion at the scene of an incident.

Maldon District Council is seeking people for a range of paid-for roles in the May local elections.

The roles will be set in a Covid-secure environment with appropriate PPE available.

Enjoyable though it is to research the archives, there's nothing quite like an eyewitness account, and I was delighted to receive an extensive set of recollections covering 1938 to 1953 from Ronald Sampson, a retired schoolteacher now living in East Grinstead.

Mr Sampson came to Maldon at the age of nine, attending All Saints Primary School before passing the Eleven Plus exam and getting into Maldon Grammar School. National Service followed, then teacher training, interspersed with work at Sadd's and on a farm in Little Totham.

IT'S been another seven days of big news stories in Maldon, from the announcement of a new community officer for Maldon and the Dengie representing all three blue light services, through to a problem with some painted lettering at a town centre car park that caused widespread amusement.

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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.

Each Saturday we've been running a new series of UP CLOSE IN MALDON features as the community looks forward to better times to come.

A Maldon modern choir is supporting a new initiative to get people singing online to boost their sense of wellbeing and help protect their mental health following the pandemic - and is urging people to sign up.

The new online singing initiative - Called Cabin Fever Choir - is being launched on Monday, 1 March, to raise mental health awareness in support of the charity MIND.

In the late 1990s, a visitor to an exhibition on one of the barges at Maldon’s Hythe Quay presented a remarkable letter.

IT'S been another seven days of big news stories in Maldon, from news of a grant to help preserve Maldon's historic Plume Library through to another drop in the district's Covid-19 infection rate.

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.