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  • £227k village hall project gets Tesco backing

    A project to revamp a village hall is set to receive thousands of pounds of extra funding. The £227,000 Goldhanger Village Hall project has secured £2,000 from Tesco’s Bags of Help community grant scheme. A successful funding bid for £15,000

  • Drug incidents up by almost a third in Maldon

    POLICE have arrested almost 50 people for drug possession in Maldon this past year. Officers from the Maldon Community Policing Team have been carrying out focused patrols in Promenade Park and throughout the area, where during a 12-month period

  • Letters: Shopping centre parking fine left sour taste

    I was one of the unfortunate customers who received a parking fine when I had in no way breached the parking terms and conditions at the Blackwater Road car park in Maldon. On March 25, I parked legally for 48 minutes while shopping in Next.

  • Power tools stolen in van break in

    Crooks broke into a van before stealing bags of power tools from the vehicle. The raiders smashed the driver’s side lock of the white Citroen Berlingo van and searched through the vehicle. The thieves made off with two bags filled with power

  • Football club pays tribute to ‘true gent’ Albert

    A FOOTBALL club has celebrated the life of its founder after he dedicated 50 years to the beautiful game. Justin Albert Kilby passed away peacefully at Broomfield Hospital, aged 85. In 1970, Mr Kilby, known as Albert established Maldon Saints