People

A charity set up in 2008 to help local young people with life-threatening illnesses with money donated by Melton Times readers has donated thousands of pounds to assist a 15-year-old cancer sufferer.

A military dog based at Melton credited with saving the lives of ‘countless’ soldiers by detecting explosive devices during a long career serving in war zones has been shortlisted for a special national award.

Belvoir Castle has been named as one of the 15 most mispronounced place names in the UK.

Gin lovers will be able to enjoy a superb selection of gins from across the UK and overseas during a 17-day festival at The Kettleby Cross in Melton.

An active retired policeman is walking the Hadrian’s Wall Path in the summer for charity.

Children and parents from Redmile Primary School gathered together with their teachers to reflect on the success of the 2019 Viking Challenge.

BBC’s Newsnight programme has been criticised for implying that many Melton people voted to leave the EU because they were concerned about immigration.

He played an important part in the lives of generations of Melton children as a school teacher and a Scout leader and some of them were in the town’s St Mary’s Church on Friday to pay their last respects to Trevor Wright alongside his family members, friends and former colleagues.

Police say they are ‘very concerned’ about a 62-year-old Melton man with dementia who has been missing for 18 hours.

A 44-year-old Melton man is using gruelling exercise challenges to help him cope with an unusual medical condition which temporarily left him unable to smell or taste.

A framed photograph of Formula One superstar Lewis Hamilton taken by the Bottesford man who is his official photographer has helped raised thousands of pounds for charity.

The family of a Melton teenager who has a rare form of cancer have made a desperate appeal to local businesses to help fund a trip abroad where he will receive vital medical treatment for up to two months.

It’s usually the students who get nervous before exams but Long Field Academy assistant principal Sharon Maloney got a taste of exactly what they go through when she secretly sat a GSCE in school.

Poppies thought to have been planted by Polish people at a re-settlement camp in Melton just after the end of the Second World War have poignantly been flowering on the now vacant site.

A Dutchman is carrying out an investigation to find out more about a Melton man and his 12 fellow British servicemen who were killed in an explosion in his home town in Holland 75 years ago.

This year’s Events Guide promoting what’s going on in Melton Mowbray in 2020 has been launched by the Melton BID.

Fundraising fire engine Trumpton has raised £7,255.94 from its 2019 Christmas tour.