A taxi driver who was picking up passengers in Melton as part of the new bus replacement service for rural villagers was angry to be handed a parking ticket by a passing traffic warden.
Young people who have been spotted doing ‘wheelies’ on their bicycles on busy town centre roads in Melton have been urged by police to stop doing it for their own safety and that of other road users.
Melton borough councillors have agreed to contribute up to £6million towards the building of the town’s partial bypass in what the authority calls a ‘pioneering’ infrastructure agreement with Leicestershire County Council.
Suffering motorists in Melton will be relieved to hear that Mill Street will reopen to traffic later today (Wednesday) after work is completed to repair a gas leak.
Major traffic congestion in Melton is likely to continue for another week with the announcement this afternoon (Friday) that Mill Street will remain closed until next Friday so a gas leak can be fixed.
The county council has responded to claims that blocked road drains are causing the many flooded roads across the Melton area which have inconvenienced and delayed so many motorists this week.
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.
