News in Maldon

In the days leading up to and including the Christmas and New Year holidays, Maldon Nub News will bring you messages from some key local figures. Some of these will be from politicians and so the views expressed are entirely their own.

Some will be long and others brief, but the thing they will have in common is their message to the people of Maldon as this most difficult of years draws to a close.

The seven-day Covid-19 infection rate for Maldon district has risen above 500 per 100,000 for the first time.

In the week up to Friday, 18 December, a total of 338 new cases were recorded in the Maldon district, equal to 520.6 per 100,000 population.

Maldon District Council has published a schedule of revised waste bin collection days for some dates over the Christmas and New Year holiday period.

These are as follows:

Maldon Nub News has been running UP CLOSE in Maldon features with businesses and organisations in the town and district over the past weeks and will continue to do so as we head into the New Year.

However, this week we have cleared the stage for a special guest, who with the help of the Rotary Clubs of Maldon and Heybridge Blackwater has been riding on his sleigh through our streets.

We enter Christmas in the midst of a national emergency that has brought great sacrifice and loss. But 106 years ago, the nation was beginning its first Christmas in a devastating war that took countless lives and was followed five years later by a global pandemic that cruelly targeted young people, in many cases the very people who had survived four years of fighting.

The Roll of Honour for Maldon lists 248 young men who died in the Great War. They represent all three services, and regiments up and down the country, but understandably there are many who served in our county regiment, the Essex Regiment, now represented by C (Essex) Company, the Royal Anglian Regiment.

IT'S been another seven days of big news stories in Maldon, which went from news of the district entering Tier 3 restrictions through to the shock of new Tier 4 rules and the spoiling of so many Christmas plans. Yet for all that, there have been moments of hope and charity, too.

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. We have even added two more articles to the usual 10 because it's been such a newsy week.

The latest Covid infection rates across Essex are still climbing in all areas with Maldon district recording 352.7 cases per 100,000 in the seven days to Tuesday, 15 December.

It is important to note that the figure for this period could still rise as not all results for tests taken up to and including that date may yet be in.

The chief executive of the company behind the proposals for Bradwell B has hailed Ofgem's decision to grant it an electricity generation licence as "an important milestone on the journey to completing the project".

But anti-nuclear campaigners have branded energy regulator Ofgem's decision as "reckless and premature".

Maldon District Council's offices in Princes Road will go live as a Covid vaccination centre today (Friday, 18 December).

The building has been undergoing extensive preparations in recent days to help facilitate the biggest-ever NHS vaccine rollout the country has ever seen.

The ambulance service serving the Maldon district has appealed to the public to show respect to call-handling staff after revealing shocking evidence of abuse.

The East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EEAST) has released an audio clip which features a member of staff in the emergency control room being subjected to a torrent of abuse by a caller who made a series of non-emergency 999 calls.