News in Maldon

Maldon Rotary Club has donated 32 laptops to help with home schooling in the local area.

Members of Maldon Rotary Club - helped by family members - braved this week's ice and snow to deliver the laptops to help the town's primary school children carry on their education at home.

A Maldon woman is planning to walk more than 500km over the next 12 weeks to raise vital funds for a local charity that supports young family carers.

Rachel Arnull is now about half way through has only got 130 k to go before she completes her challenge in aid of Action for Carers, based in Brickhouse Farm, Poulton Close.

Plans to build a multi-million pound holiday park with 70 lodges in a small village have been turned down by Maldon District Council.

A meeting of Maldon District Council's North West Area Planning Committee decided last night (Wednesday, 10 February) that while the proposals would bring some benefits to the district in terms of potential employment and revenue, the impact on the rural village location would outweigh them.

Maldon has a Mill Road and a Mill Lane, and it isn't a great leap of imagination to work out from that we once possessed at least two mills.

A short article in a 1997 edition of Penny Farthing (the newsletter of Maldon District Museum Association) helpfully lists these, and others.

IT'S been another seven days of big news stories in Maldon, from the unveiling of a new mass vaccination centre for the Maldon area at Chelmsford Racecourse through to a parish council's hope that they might be able to save an at-risk heritage building.

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.

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.

We will be profiling some of these local businesses and groups regularly over coming weeks in a new series of our feature called UP CLOSE IN MALDON in the hope that we can be a supportive springboard for your full return to life as usual.

Maldon district councillors have agreed to adopt a Climate Emergency Statement.

At a meeting of the full council tonight (Thursday, 4 February) the "statement of intent" was agreed by assent (by all councillors).

One woman's idea of putting together 'gratitude' packages for NHS key workers across the Dengie has resulted in 140 individual bags six hampers being delivered this week, thanks to volunteers across Burnham and a number of the district's villages.

Now the project - called 'Dengie Gratitude Packages - Hug in a Bag' has its own Facebook group and plans deliveries to Broomfield and surrounding hospitals every week through NHS Community Donations. The group also wants to shower other frontline workers with gratitude straight from the community, including those in pharmacies, the postal service, funeral directors, care homes and care agencies.

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The major incident declared in Essex in December has been ended as the NHS is now in "a stable condition" across the county.

The major incident was declared by the Essex Resilience Forum (ERF) on 29 December in response to the county's health services becoming in danger of being overwhelmed. The move meant that the county could ask the Government for help.