Business

A deaf woman and her Michelin-trained chef partner have taken over running a popular vegan restaurant in Melton.

A taxi driver who was picking up passengers in Melton as part of the new bus replacement service for rural villagers was angry to be handed a parking ticket by a passing traffic warden.

Firefighters have today (Tuesday) been lobbying MPs to invest more in the service as it emerged Leicestershire has lost 114 crew members over the last decade.

Boots have ramped up security at their Melton store following three separate break-ins last month.

Comments by the Duchess of Rutland, whose family home is Belvoir Castle, suggesting on a live breakfast television debate that McDonald’s should use pheasant meat in their burger and nugget meals have this morning (Tuesday) caused a stir on social media.

Staff at a Melton building society have raised £2,210 for a group of volunteer who respond to emergencies in the area.

A heath and safety training specialist in Melton is enjoying success across the world.

A Melton hotel is the latest location in the town for a life-saving defibrillator to be installed.

A new travel business is set to open in Melton on Thursday in the town’s former Thomas Cook shop, which closed in September following the collapse of the 178-year-old company.

Customers are being advised that the Tesco Esso Express supermarket and petrol station in Melton is to close for several weeks to enable a major refurbishment.

Residents across the Melton borough will get a chance to have a say on how new developments are designed as part of a major consultation exercise.

A Melton delivery driver who is starring in a new television advert says he was ‘completely out of my comfort zone’ when he did the filming for it.

It was the end of an era for villagers at Grimston when their beloved postman retired at the weekend after a career lasting four decades.

Melton borough councillors have agreed to contribute up to £6million towards the building of the town’s partial bypass in what the authority calls a ‘pioneering’ infrastructure agreement with Leicestershire County Council.

Views are being sought on proposals which would see a proportion of the Council Tax bill for Melton borough residents increase by 3.99 per cent.

As most residents across the Melton borough unwrapped gifts before tucking into traditional roast turkey lunches, Christmas Day was just a normal working shift for the men and women who serve with the Defence Animal Training Regiment (DATR) at their Melton base.

A village butcher’s shop which has been run by three generations of a family since 1910 will close down on Saturday December 28 because it is unable to compete with cheaper supermarket meat and internet sales.

Melton’s Birch Wood really is a special school in every sense.

When a Melton schoolboy complained of having a stitch in his side on a family holiday he and his parents and siblings had no idea it was actually symptoms of a rare form of cancer.