Maldon Chronicle published 'We are not closing' says Maldon's Blue Boar Hotel owner before...

THE owner of a popular Maldon pub and hotel has quashed rumours of closure, despite announcing a sale of more than 600 items from the hotel's weird and wonderful antiques collection.Fears had been raised that the Blue Boar, which recently underwent renovation work, would be shutting with the mass auction, but owner John Wilsdon has reassured concerned townspeople.Mr Wilsdon instead claimed the auction is simply a way of thinning out the hotel's extravagant collection of items."I'm just...