MAJOR renovations at the Blackwater Leisure Centre will see sports groups forced out to make way for new “state-of-the-art” facilities, it has been revealed.

A NEW health hub should be built at St Peter’s Hospital in Maldon amid “rapid investment over the next five years”, the NHS has been told.

With fireworks displays planned throughout the Maldon District this weekend, pet owners are being urged to take extra steps.

VULNERABLE people in the Maldon District risk being left without “desperately needed” transport to Broomfield Hospital, it is feared.