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Outstanding contribution winner Johnny Nicol with deputy mayor, Councillor Tim Webster at the Let's Get Moving Melton Awards 2023

Let's Get Moving Melton Awards 2023 - the winners

Florence Skipper (centre), the winner of the Ironstone Family of Churches Christmas card design competition, with Lila Chaumillon (left) and Chloe Moulds, who were also judged in the top three

Village pupil designs Christmas card for 1,000 households

Colles Hall, in Burton Street, Melton Mowbray, which is up for sale

Historic Melton building up for sale for £425K

The late Anna Turakhia with her son, Keran, the Samosa Wallah

Samosa Wallah pays tribute to his mum after her sad passing

Some of the contestants in this year's Melton's Got Talent 2023

Winners of Melton's Got Talent 2023

Ashberry Homes Eastern Counties has donated £1,000 to Home-Start Horizons

Housebuilder helps Home-Start Horizons fund playgroups for children in Leicester...

The sensory garden is officially opened at Oasis Preschool and Retreat in Melton

Oasis preschoolers thrilled by new sensory room and garden

The late Vera Scholes, as a young woman and in later life

Tributes for Melton woman who passed away aged 103

Greg Mills - broke the deadlock on Saturday. Pic by Mark Woolterton.

Melton keep pressure on after big home win

SMB College Group's Principal, Dawn Whitemore, left, with three representatives from the charity Menphys and the event host

Award win for Melton-based SMB College Group

Santa and his elves in The Bell Centre Grotto last Christmas

Santa's Grotto ready to open for business in Melton town centre
Santa’s Grotto opens for business in The Bell Centre in Melton Mowbray on Friday.

1940s Christmas Evening Dance

1940s Melton Mowbray Christmas Dance

Santa and the Trumpton mini fire engine will be touring Melton Mowbray again from next week

Trumpton prepares to tour Melton streets with Santa

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

Melton Mowbray Christmas lights switch-on 2023

JB Thompson of Stainby are presented with The Brownlow Challenge Cup, for Champion Beast last year's Melton Fatstock Show, by the Mayor of Melton, Councillor Alan Hewson, Melton & Belvoir Agricultural Society chair, Hugh Brown, and auctioneer, Scott Ruck

Market to host 71st annual Melton fatstock show

The decorated family house in Stirling Road which raised money for charity

Dozens enjoy family's Christmas fundraiser

Latest news from the Melton borough

Have your say on Melton's new climate change strategy

Action from Melton's win at Sleaford. Photo by Steve W Davies Photography.

MIlls earns high-flying Melton three more precious points

Staff and volunteers at The Hanger charity superstore in Melton Mowbray celebrate funding 1,000 lifesaving missions for the local air ambulance service

Charity store celebrates funding 1,000 lifesaving missions

Join us for a wonderful evening of music and community spirit!

Community organisations put the fun back into fundraising!

Rutland and Melton MP Alicia Kearns, inset, has launched her new competition to find the area's favourite shop. Photograph shows Melton town centre

MP launches 'best shop' competition

Melton firefighters responded to the incident

Horse rescued from deep muddy bog by Melton firefighters

Pupils at The Grove Primary School, in Melton, enjoy science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) activities

'Our children had the best day!'

A support session at Pepper's - A Safe Place in Melton

New mental health drop-in sessions in Melton

Organisers prepare for Saturday's Ashby Folville Winter Fair

Ashby Folville Winter Fair returns for 2023

Jonathan Griffiths on the stall for The Cosy Chocolate Company at ChocFest in Melton

Thousands of chocolate-lovers enjoy Melton's ChocFest

Kick Up The Arts will be held in The Bell Centre in Melton Mowbray

Community arts event to be staged in Melton

Tom Griggs, who is preparing to close his Icon UK shop in King Street to move his business online

Final weeks of 40-year-old Melton music shop
It’s been a music shop for 40 years but the current owner of Icon UK is preparing to close for good with all the instruments being sold off for discounted prices.

Launch night for IGNITE Performing Arts Academy at Melton college

IGNITE Performing Arts Academy launched at Melton college

Station manager Christine Slomkowska and presenter Patrick McCracken in the studio at 103 The Eye PHOTO GEORGE ICKE

Melton's radio station gets Royal seal of approval

The Kettleby Cross pub in Melton Mowbray

Melton pub is flushed with success

Some tasty treats at a previous ChocFest event in Melton

Ticket winners for Melton's ChocFest

Students at John Ferneley College, in Melton, at a Remembrance event

Schoolchildren pay their respects at Remembrance events

The Melton Band leads the Melton Mowbray Remembrance Sunday parade through Sherrard Street

Huge crowds support Melton's Remembrance Sunday parade

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

Christmas lights

Melton family to put on Christmas lights event for charity

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

Elliott Hampson passes through Melton Mowbray on his fundraising walk

Elliott's gruelling fundraiser dressed only in Speedos and a cowboy hat

The row of 17th century cottages which was used by Websters Dairy to produce Stilton

Historic former dairy's buildings to be sold at auction

Scenes from previous drive-in living Nativity events at Melton market

Drive-In Living Nativity event to be held at Melton market

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

MP 'incredibly proud' to see military dog handlers graduate at Melton base

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

Ben Jackson, the owner of snooker club Jackson's Lounge, in Market Place, Melton.

​Success on cue at Melton snooker club

Previous winners at Melton's Christmas fatstock show and sale

Entries open for Melton's Christmas fatstock show
Amateurs and professionals are being encouraged to take part in Melton’s 71st annual Christmas Fatstock Show and Sale next month.

Melton Mowbray town centre looking down Nottingham Street

Have your say on changes to the Melton Local Plan

From left, Graham, Steve and Stuart Hall, pictured at the B&H Midland Services business which they have run for many years

Popular Melton family business to close after 52 years

Waterfield Leisure Centre's swimming pool at Melton Mowbray

Waterfield Leisure Centre misses out on new government funding

A signpost in Melton Mowbray town centre

Upcoming events in Melton Mowbray

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

Road closed at busy Melton junction due to gas leak

The entrance to Melton's Egerton Park and the car park surface at the cricket club (left) before it was repaired

Bypass contractors thanked for repairing Melton club's car park

Students toss their caps in the air after SMB College Group's graduation day at Brooksby

Celebrating students graduate at Brooksby ceremony

Melton railway station

Melton railway station ticket office saved from closure

Melton's Poppy Appeal is short of volunteers

Volunteers desperately needed for Melton's Poppy Appeal

Melton's Christmas hamper appeal has been launched

Can you donate towards Christmas hampers for Melton people in need?