Traffic and Travel

Gritting teams have started go out as night time temperatures drop to make roads safer for motorists in the Melton borough and across the county.

Changes are being made to six bus services in the Melton borough with routes and timings amended and residents in some villages having now to rely on pick-ups only being made if there is sufficient demand.

Multi-million-pound funding has today (Friday) been confirmed to pay for the southern link to Melton’s approved partial bypass.

Work teams have started upgrading water pipes in Melton as part of a £360,000 project which will continue until next April.

Car parking charges across the Melton borough are set to be increased for the first time in four years as the borough council seeks to generate an extra £150,000 a year so it can afford to improve customer services and tackle community and environmental issues.

More than 300 able-bodied motorists were issued with tickets for parking in bays in the Melton borough reserved for drivers with disabilities last year.

Firefighters have issued a warning to motorists not to drive through flood water after rescuing a man who was trapped in his vehicle at Thrussington this morning (Tuesday).

The Melton area’s performance on tackling climate change is ‘poor’ according to environmental campaigning group Friends of the Earth.

Designers of Melton’s partial bypass, which is due to be built by early 2023 at the latest, are celebrating after winning a prestigious regional planning award.

The A607 Leicester Road in Melton was closed in both directions last night (Tuesday) after a collision involving multiple cars and a fuel spillage.

A motorist had a lucky escape this afternoon (Tuesday) when a tree and a street light crashed down on his car as he drove along Ankle Hill in Melton.

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.

Fuming residents at flats in Melton town centre have had enough of their car park being full of cars belonging to people who don’t live there.

There are currently long delays for traffic on the A607 near Melton following a road collision.

A Redmile man is sailing around the world to raise money for a sight-loss charity in support of a friend’s teenage son.

Emergency services attended when two vehicles collided at Thorpe Arnold yesterday afternoon (Monday).

Motorists may have to wait a bit longer to start using the planned new partial bypass for Melton after it emerged today (Wednesday) that the opening may be delayed by up to nine months.

This was the scene of destruction at a busy Melton town centre junction after a car knocked over a traffic light and flattened nearby safety fencing.