COLUMN - My Melton with Kelly Davies
It’s Christmas. This year has flown by.
I’m pretty sure you don’t want to read about why The Muppet Christmas Carol is the best Christmas film.
That being said, I believe that the Melton college campus could be saved if the three ghosts pay Melton Borough Council and Loughborough College Group a visit on Christmas Eve.
If either organisation starts skipping to ‘little Tesco’ on Christmas Day to buy the biggest turkey available then it’s a promising sign.
Whilst the theatre situation is casting a shadow over the town centre. There are some things to celebrate.
Christmas lights switch-on weekend was a textbook example of what happens when you let people who are willing to try something new take the helm.
The headliners were fantastic, as proven by my bad singing.
Yet this aspect of experimentation also applied to the ‘smaller’ parts of the weekend.
I’ve never seen the St John’s Church wreath festival as active on social media as they were this year.
The result? Over 100 wreaths were submitted and they raised over £1,100 - from a FREE ENTRY event.
I currently have a survey out about the weekend (see the ‘My Melton’ Facebook page) and the plan is to combine the data with Melton BID’s business feedback form to create a plan to make 2026’s event even better.
So, I’d be super grateful if you completed that.
In addition, we are being blessed with a shops boom at the moment.
Raghouse Clothing is a fantastic clothes retailer and I love my £10 flannel shirt.
Cherry Love Boutique is plugging the clothing gap. Let’s Sew It on King’s Street is a paradise for ‘sewists’. White House Boutique has fantastic gift ideas.
That’s without the older independent stores in town.
As we close out 2025, I just want to say that we have a lovely little town.
Have a wonderful Christmas and a fantastic new year.
Love and festive hugs, Kelly.
PS. In last month’s column, I asked the White Lion pub staff to bring back their bottomless brunches.
The team read it and the next brunch is on December 20.
Long live ‘people power’ and the local press.