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One of the 36th Melton Mowbray Scout Group with a pile of Christmas cards ready to be delivered

Melton Scouts offer Christmas card postal service

Melton Borough Council's Parkside offices

Decision made on preferred location for Melton's new GP surgery

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WI members raise money for Blood Bikes charity

Melton Mowbray Tennis Club Ladies' second team - derby day winners.

Melton ladies chalk up big tennis wins

Mayor of Melton, Councillor Alan Hewson, turns on the Christmas lights on Friday, with guests including panto star Shannon

Panto stars help with Melton's Christmas lights switch-on

Santa and his elves pictured outside their grotto in The Bell Centre, Melton, today

Children flock to see Santa in The Bell Centre

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

Historic Melton building up for sale for £425K

The level crossing at Station Lane, near Asfordby IMAGE Google StreetView

Level crossing barrier damage caused rural road closure

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

Tributes for Melton woman who passed away aged 103

Santa and his elves in The Bell Centre Grotto last Christmas

Santa's Grotto ready to open for business in Melton town centre

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

Trumpton prepares to tour Melton streets with Santa
Excitement is building around Melton Mowbray as local firefighters prepare to start touring residential estates with Santa Claus and their iconic Trumpton fire engine.

The Melton and District Round Table Santa sleigh tours the borough in a previous year

Villagers ready to welcome Round Table's Santa sleigh

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 spectacular Melton Mowbray Christmas tree festival pictured last year

All set for Melton's spectacular twinkling festival of Christmas trees

Latest news from the Melton borough

Have your say on Melton's new climate change strategy

Melton firefighters responded to the incident

Horse rescued from deep muddy bog by Melton firefighters

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

Community arts event to be staged in Melton

Market stalls in Melton Mowbray

Vegan market returns to Melton Mowbray

Melton Ladies first team - draw against champions.

Melton teams in good form with only one loss in four

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

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

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

Huge crowds support Melton's Remembrance Sunday parade

Police at the scene of Tuesday's collision in Scalford Road in which two schoolgirls were injured PHOTO GEROGE ICKE

School gives update on pupils injured by car

Elliott Hampson passes through Melton Mowbray on his fundraising walk

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

Serving men and women take part in last year's annual Remembrance Sunday parade through Melton Mowbray

Town prepares for annual Remembrance Sunday parade

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
Fears have been expressed that the existing infrastructure would not be able to cope with hundreds of new homes being planned on a former Melton Mowbray factory site.

James Jesson plants a tree grown from an acorn near the Arnhem battlefield at the Friends of the Tenth memorial at Burrough-on-the-Hill

Arnhem battlefield oak tree planted at war memorial

RAVC service personnel with a military working dog

New book details history of army regiment with strong Melton links

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

Melton railway station

Melton railway station ticket office saved from closure

Scalford Country House Hotel

Scalford hotel to stop housing asylum-seekers

From left, IMLT mascot Sid the Shark with Amanda Heath, MADMAC manager and founder, and Hetty Simpson, MADMAC assistant manager

National award for Melton debt advice service

Louise Potts pictured before (left) and after her Slimming World weight loss programme

New Melton slimming consultant hopes to inspire others

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

Youngsters enjoying a previous Halloween family fun event at Melton's John Ferneley College - it's happening again on Monday

Upcoming family events in the Melton and Rutland area

A Flood Alert has been issued

Flood alert in place for villages west of Melton Mowbray

Tom Folwell, who plays top level wheelchair rugby after losing both legs on army service

Wheelchair sport gives disabled army veteran a new purpose

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

Village tip could close in new cost-cutting plans

MP Alicia Kearns takes a look at the entries for the annual Christmas card competition last year

Schoolchildren challenged to design MP's Christmas card

The VITA Health Group team which will be visiting Melton's Market Place on Saturday to offer mental health support

Special bus to visit Melton for mental health support

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

Melton allotments brightened up with scarecrow festival

Paul Hartland (left) on the Mrs King's Pork Pies stand and Laura Davies and Jack Kirton on The Mouse House stall, at the East Midlands Food Festival at Melton

Sunshine draws huge attendance for Melton food festival weekend
Thousands of food-lovers enjoyed unseasonably lovely sunny weather at the weekend when they converged on Melton for the annual East Midlands Food Festival.

The Revolution Kitchen factory on Pate Road, Melton Mowbray

Melton Mowbray food factory to close down this year

Melton's new Poundland store in Nottingham Street

Melton's new Poundland store set to open this weekend

Pupils at The Grove Primary School in Melton enjoying a science lesson

Science award for staff at Melton primary school

High Sheriff of Leicestershire, Henrietta Chubb, presents a special award to CEO Amanda Heath and her MADMAC team

Special recognition for Melton's free debt management team

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

The tragic scene off Alderman Road, in Melton, where a glider pilot was killed in August

Update on fatal Melton glider collision

Volunteers are sought by Melton Child Contact Centre

Volunteers sought to help local children affected by family breakdowns

From left, Age UK Gloucester House, The Edge community centre and Melton Country Park visitor centre

Upcoming events in Melton Mowbray in October

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

Delays are expected in the Melton area with major work due to start on the A46

Delays expected in Melton area with major work due to start on A46