Education

A Melton man who has been treated for prostate cancer is supporting a move to establish a new screening technique for the disease which is more accurate and less invasive for patients.

Melton schoolchildren have put on a special play telling the story of how Catholic education started in the town with a tiny school for just four children in Sherrard Street 120 years ago.

Parents and carers in the Melton borough are being reminded that the deadline for applying for primary school places is coming up next week.

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.

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

Staff at an Asfordby Hill business are celebrating after their popular workshops showing people how to make authentic Melton Mowbray pork pies scooped a coveted tourism award.

A Melton primary school is to hold an open morning to show visitors how pupils are expanding their vocabulary and improving their writing skills through an innovative new curriculum.

Council officials have been accused of stranding elderly people in rural areas and consigning students to late journeys home as a result of changes they have made to six bus services in the Melton area.

A Melton mum says she will be left out of pocket and her four children’s education will be disrupted as a result of their school being used as a polling station for next month’s General Election.

A couple who run a farm at Somerby said they were ‘shocked and delighted’ to win a prestigious award which recognises business excellence in rural areas.

Tributes have been paid to talented trumpeter, Don Blakeson, who played with top orchestras, on the records of superstars such as Shirley Bassey and Rod Stewart and on soundtracks for Hollywood movies before teaching Melton schoolchildren how to play instruments in his retirement.

A programme of activities will be held in Melton on Thursday to support the mental health of residents.

Melton schoolchildren poignantly sang patriotic Polish songs at a service at Saltby Airfield to honour paratroopers from Poland who flew from there to fight in the Second World War.

The death of a 20-year-old Tilton on the Hill man in a university initiation-style bar crawl almost three years ago is being used as a warning to freshers about the dangers of drinking too much.

Two schools in Melton and five from nearby villages have joined a scheme designed to make drivers park more safely and considerately on roads outside their gates.

Boys at secondary schools across the Melton borough are this week, for the first time, being given a vaccination which protects against various forms of cancer.

Around 200 descendants of a brave band of Second World War paratroopers gathered at Burrough on the Hill on Saturday to see the unveiling of a lasting memorial in their honour.