A national pub chain will come to Maldon and could open by the summer.
District councillors gave the go-ahead on the controversial plans for pub giant JD Wetherspoon to take over the former Post Office building in the High Street at a meeting last night.
Read the full report in next week's paper, out on Wednesday.
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