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Police have made an arrest

Youth banned from Melton town centre after anti-social arrest

A police roadblock at Plungar after the discovery of Timothy Macdonald's body PHOTO GEORGE ICKE

Plungar murder: mobile phone handed into Melton police after appeal

The turning to Plungar, where police are investigating a murder PHOTO GEORGE ICKE

Mobile phone could hold key to Plungar murder investigation

Timothy Macdonald, whose body was found in a field at Plungar on Tuesday

Police name man found dead in a field at Plungar

A police road block at Plungar this week following the discovery of a man's body in a field PHOTO GEORGE ICKE

Second death linked to discovery of man's body at Plungar

A police road block today close to the murder scene at Plungar PHOTO GEORGE ICKE

Detectives launch murder investigation after body found in field

Police attending an incident in Melton

Parents invited to meeting to solve town's anti-social issues

Police at the scene of this morning's collision in Scalford Road, Melton, which involved two schoolgirls and a car PHOTO GEORGE ICKE

Schoolgirls taken to hospital after Melton collision

Leicestershire Police and Crime Commissioner Rupert Matthews has announced major new funding for Melton crime initiatives

New funding to tackle Melton's anti-social offenders

Leicestershire Police have carried out a major county lines operation

Drugs and weapons seized in major Leicestershire county lines operation

A police car in Melton's Market Place as officers continue to enforce the new dispersal orders this evening

Melton police chief's drive to stop anti-social youths
A group of around 15 youths - one aged just 12 - have been identified by police as the main perpetrators of persistent anti-social behaviour (ASB) leading to a dispersal order being introduced in Melton Mowbray.

Part of the area of Melton Mowbray covered by the Dispersal order to tackle anti-social incidents

Dispersal order in place in Melton after anti-social behaviour upsurge

Jake Calow, who has been jailed for eight years

'Utterly reckless’ drink-driver jailed for eight years

Police and Crime Commissioner, Rupert Matthews, and Mounted Volunteers Co-ordinator, PC Kelly Tones, with two of the new police horseback volunteers

Volunteers on horseback enlisted to help police tackle rural crime

Aimi McCaffrey, who was tragically killed after being hit by a car as she jogged at Cropwell Butler

Driver jailed for killing jogger after shift at Melton hotel

Police forensic investigators continue to look into the Long Clawson scene of where Carrie Slater was found with gunshot injuries before she subsequently died in hospital

Murder suspect in court following Long Clawson incident

Carrie Slater, who died from gunshot wounds following an incident at Long Clawson

Murder charge after woman dies from gunshot wounds

Police have made an appeal following the incident

Man (44) arrested after woman found seriously injured at Long Clawson

Police have released an update on the incident

Ferneley Crescent death now treated as non-suspicious

Police are investigating

Woman (69) arrested on suspicion of murder after death of Melton man

New Melton and Rutland police commander, Inspector Darren Richardson, is congratulated by outgoing Inspector Lindsey Madeley-Harland, who has been promoted to a Chief Inspector role in south Leicestershire

New police commander appointed for Melton and Rutland

Police have made an arrest

Police make arrest after collision kills elderly woman

Police were deployed to the scene

Lorry and car involved in A46 incident near Six Hills

Romil Vanderbeek, who has been jailed for a knife attack at Asfordby Hill

Nine years jail for knife attacker at Asfordby Hill party

Emergency services were deployed to the scene

Woman pillion passenger killed in collision near Melton

Lee Smith, who is now serving a life sentence for conducting a 'sadistic reign of terror'

Life sentence for Melton man who carried out ‘sadistic reign of terror’

Police conducted a summer drink and drug-drive campaign across Leicestershire

Police announce 'very disappointing' summer drink and drug-drive figures

Gerald 'Charlie' Chaplin pictured (left) during his police career and (right) recently

Tributes for popular former Melton police officer who has died aged 83
Tributes have been paid to a popular former Melton police officer who has died aged 83.

A Leicestershire Police mobile speed camera van

New Melton area routes to be targeted by police speed camera van

A police car at the glider crash site in Melton yesterday

Police confirm death of glider pilot following mid-air Melton collision

The wreckage of the glider in a field near the new Bellway estate in Melton this afternoon

Glider crashes into Melton field near busy road after mid-air collision

Henry Smith, who has been jailed for nearly 15 years PHOTO Leicestershire Police

Man (39) handed lengthy prison sentence for rape and coercive behaviour

Anthony Reynolds, who is now serving a prison sentence of 19 years PHOTO Gloucestershire Police

Melton man jailed for 19 years after admitting repeatedly raping young girl

Police carried out a special campaign in Melton

Police spot 17 drivers not wearing a seat belt on busy Melton road

Floral tributes left by the side of Melton Spinney Road, near Scalford, after the death of cyclist

Floral tributes left by road following death of cyclist

Police are cracking down on drink-drivers

Police drink-drive crackdown sees 37 arrests already this month

Latest figures for the cost of rural crime has been revealed

Cost of rural crime in Leicestershire up by 20 per cent

Mohammed Hashim Ijazuddin (left) and Saqib Hussain both died when their car was deliberately rammed off the A46 near Melton

Four guilty of murder after car rammed off the road near Melton

Kevin Burraway, director of ACE, pictured holding one of the new HD CCTV cameras installed in Melton earlier this year

Police chief praises upgraded Melton CCTV coverage

Police are investigating

Police investigate death of Vale of Belvoir music festival attendee

Leicestershire Police Chief Constable Rob Nixon

Police change the way officers respond to mental health incidents

Police appeal after thieves steal haul of tools from van in Vale of Belvoir

Police appeal after thieves steal haul of tools from van in Vale of Belvoir

Andrew Vigor-Mungovin playing the role of the notorious William Brown (aka Peppermint Billy) at Friday 'retrial' of the infamous Melton Mowbray murder case from 1856

Notorious Melton murderer sensationally cleared at dramatic 'retrial'

An EMAS ambulance crew attended the scene

Motorcyclist killed in road collision near Melton

Police have brought charges

Horse rider charged with common assault following Whissendine incident
Police have charged a horse rider with one count of common assault following an incident in Whissendine earlier this year.

Police made an arrest

County police PCSO jailed for sending threatening letter to a woman

Images of a man police want to speak to regarding reports of a sexual assault in a property in Burton Street, Melton

Police reveal images following reports of sexual assault in Melton

News from the courts

Holwell man admits breaching a restraining order

Leicestershire Police and Crime Commissioner, Rupert Matthews

Melton workshop to help community groups bid for funding

Pc Hill and colleagues attend a hotspot for ant-social behaviour in the Grange Drive area of Melton

Police clamp down on anti-social behaviour hot spot in Melton

Barkby United Cricket Club, which has been left reeling by a vandal attack on its pitch

Appeal launched after vandals destroy village cricket club's pitch

The case was heard at Leicester Crown Court

Driver found guilty of causing death of motorcyclist in Asfordby collision

Police officers were called to the incident

32-year-old admits stabbing neighbour at Asfordby Hill party

The new speed camera van which will be monitoring roads in Leicestershire and Rutland

High tech camera van set to detect more speeding drivers and riders

Police are investigating the incident

Police seek witnesses after two cars collide near Great Dalby