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Melton Borough Council took the case to court

Scalford resident prosecuted after Airbnb allegation

The Christmas lights are switched on in Melton Market Place a few years ago

Melton Mowbray Christmas lights switch-on 2023

Latest news from the Melton borough

Have your say on Melton's new climate change strategy

From left, MP Alicia Kearns presents certificates to last year's winners Gates Garden Centre, Melton Sports and Foxy Lots

Opinion: Showing my support for our local independents

Alastair McQuillan, Rutland and Melton Green Party

Opinion: We should be looking to the future not the past

From left: Chris Green, head of service for Highways Operations, Councillor Ozzy O'Shea, cabinet member for highways and transport, and Tom Vesty, Highway Works Manager

Gritting teams prepare to keep Leicestershire's roads safe

A sign directing residents to the Somerby household waste and recycling site

Have your say on major changes to household waste sites in Melton area

Nick and Maxine Ablewhite at their Beckmill Court flat with beloved dog, Princess PHOTO GEORGE ICKE

Disabled Melton man feels trapped in his council flat after amputation

Melton Borough Council has taken a resident to court

Melton resident prosecuted for having scrap vehicles in his garden

The emergency closure of Edendale Road in Melton Mowbray today

Delays expected after emergency closure of Edendale Road

Melton MP Alicia Kearns with a military horse at the DATR base

MP 'incredibly proud' to see military dog handlers graduate at Melton base
Melton’s MP has visited the town’s Defence Animal Training Regiment (DATR) to learn more about the history of the site, the work that takes place there, and the support available for military personnel and their families.

A computer image of the proposed housing development on the former Jeld-Wen site, on Snow Hill, close to Scalford Brook

Residents express fears over housing plan on former factory site

Police attending an incident in Melton

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

Melton Mowbray town centre looking down Nottingham Street

Have your say on changes to the Melton Local Plan

Waterfield Leisure Centre's swimming pool at Melton Mowbray

Waterfield Leisure Centre misses out on new government funding

Leicestershire County Council's quit smoking programme has received a funding boost

Funding to be doubled for county's quit smoking programme

Councillor Margaret Clay, the Labour candidate who was elected at the Asfordby by-election

Asfordby elects new borough councillor at by-election

Saxby Road at the junction with Brook Street at Melton Mowbray IMAGE Google StreetView

Road closed at busy Melton junction due to gas leak

Melton railway station

Melton railway station ticket office saved from closure

Scalford Country House Hotel

Scalford hotel to stop housing asylum-seekers

The former Jeld-Wen site at Snow Hill in Melton Mowbray

Revised plans for homes at Jeld-Wen site to be exhibited

An electric car being charged

Where in the borough do you want new electric car charge points installed?

Mounted service personnel from Melton's Defence Animal Training Regiment in last year's Remembrance Sunday parade

Preparations finalised for Melton's Remembrance Sunday parade

Bradgate Lane in Asfordby IMAGE Google StreetView

Candidates revealed for council's Asfordby by-election

Melton MP Alicia Kearns is seeking an urgent meeting with the Transport Secretary over funding for the proposed MMDR south sections

Melton MP makes 11th-hour bid to rescue funding for southern relief road

Cars struggle in flooded Mill Lane at Rearsby today

Storm Babet - road closures in Melton and Rutland

Leicestershire County Council's Glenfield HQ lit up red last year for Remembrance and the Poppy Appeal

Council HQ to be lit up in red to mark Remembrance

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.

Somerby household waste and recycling site, which is under threat of closure

Village tip could close in new cost-cutting plans

Don and Sylvia Smart pictured (left) in the early years of their relationship and (right) later in life

Tributes for former Melton Mayor and local businessman who has died aged 91

The route of the proposed south link to Melton's MMDR which is not viable to build at present according to a new council report

Soaring costs stall building of Melton's planned southern relief road

Leicestershire County Council's Glenfield HQ (left) lit up this week in the colours of the Israel flag and Melton Borough Council's Parkside offices, which will not be flying a flag for the nation

Row erupts over Melton Council's refusal to fly the Israel flag

Latest news about bus services

Funding boost for rural Leicestershire bus services

Melton Borough Council news

Melton jobs fair set to help residents find work or change career

Deadline for nominations for Let's Get Moving Melton Awards 2023 is this Sunday

Deadline nears for Melton borough's health and fitness awards

Keir Starmer is interrupted by a heckler. Credit: Getty

Keir Starmer Labour conference speech crashed by protester

Councillor Sarah Cox with some of the best entries in the Lake Terrace scarecrow festival

Melton allotments brightened up with scarecrow festival

Melton Borough Council news

Council to allocate £135K to help pay for community projects

News about the Melton Mowbray economy

Melton businesses invited to apply for new £15K grants

The new roundabout built for the Bloor Homes Development, where a week-long road closure will take place on Scalford road up to the Holwell Lane junction later this month Drone PHOTO MICHAEL RILEY

Major Melton Mowbray road to be closed for a week

Melton Borough Council's Parkside offices

Villagers to elect new councillor at by-election

Alicia Kearns MP with headteacher Nick Sale on the day Great Dalby Primary School held its own elections

Village pupils hold their own elections as MP visits school

Archaeologists examine remains of Roman planting beds in the farmstead unearthed during work to build Melton's NEMMDR

Large Roman farm unearthed on route of new Melton relief road

Leicestershire County Council HQ at Glenfield

County Hall's funding shortfall could hit £100M by 2027

Charlotte Clinch and her 19-year-old daughter, Caitlin

Melton teenager distressed by delays over her SEND college transport
A Melton teenager with learning difficulties has been left distressed by having to change college courses at a late stage and not having transport in place to start her studies.

Melton's only Green borough councillor resigns

Melton's only green councillor resigns

Councillor Margaret Glancy with fellow Melton Newport representative, Councillor Simon Lumley, with the new memorial post box provided by Melton Borough Council at the Thorpe Road cemetery

Memorial post box launched for mourners at Melton cemetery

Melton Council chief executive, Edd de Coverly, with his medal after completing Sunday's Great North Run

Council chief executive boosts mental health charity with fundraising run

A computer graphic showing the roundabout on Burton Road in Melton which would link with a proposed southern section of the MMDR

Council confirms commitment to Melton bypass southern link

An impression of what the new cafe will look like next-door to Ye Olde Pork Pie Shoppe if plans are approved

Plans unveiled to expand pork pie shop and create a cafe next-door

Rutland and Melton MP, Alicia Kearns

MP linked to China spy story

An electric car being charged

Major new funding to increase county chargepoints for electric vehicles

A solar farm is planned on agricultural land in the Vale of Belvoir

Appeal lodged over controversial solar farm plans in Vale of Belvoir

The site, outlined in red, which had been earmarked for a planned solar farm on fields at Easthorpe

Councillors block controversial Vale solar farm scheme

Deputy Melton Borough Council leader, Margaret Glancy, with members of the local bin collection team and lorries with the new signage on

Melton bin lorries used to get message across about fly-tipping