Immigration, local healthcare and the prospect of sending primary school pupils to Southminster by bus were hot topics of debate at a heated hustings event. Parliamentary candidates for the Maldon constituency met at St Mary’s Church, in Church
A Maldon mum who carefully recycles her rubbish has spoken of her frustration after watching binmen throw her food waste into the same lorry as her black bags. Karen Palmer, 35, says she supports recycling by sorting her waste into garden waste
A suspected drink driver collided with a parked car, pushing it 50 metres down the road. Sara Burrell, of Fambridge Road, Maldon, described how she ran outside after hearing "the most almighty bang". She said: "Opening my door I saw a car,
Lifeboat crews helped get a man with leg injuries from a yacht into an ambulance. The Southend coastguard rescue team helped the 73-year-old man, who was in a yacht alongside the Essex Marine, River Crouch at about 10am yesterday. He was taken
The weather and fishing has been superb recently with some big hauls of cod and thornbacks. The cod are hanging on for a surprisingly long time this spring. We fully expected them to be gone by now but numbers are still good with catches of
An intrepid kayaker completed a 125-mile water way race despite blisters and bruising. Before tackling his impressive feat, profoundly deaf Robert Wilson had only ever covered about 20 miles in his kayak, usually with a pub lunch along the way.
