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

Huge crowds support Melton's Remembrance Sunday parade

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 signpost in Melton Mowbray town centre

Upcoming events in Melton Mowbray

Melton's Poppy Appeal is short of volunteers

Volunteers desperately needed for Melton's Poppy Appeal

Melton Royal British Legion club chair Andy Peacock (centre) with fellow committee members

Melton's legion club set to reopen

Melton Mowbray Rpyal British Legion Club

£10K electrics bill forces closure of Melton legion club

Melton pays tribute to service personnel on Armed Forces Day

Melton Mowbray pays special tribute to service personnel on Armed Forces Day

King Charles III (image Getty Images) and St Mary's Church in Melton

Melton prepares to celebrate Coronation of King Charles III

Latest news from the Royal British Legion

New organiser and volunteers sought for Melton Poppy Appeal

St Mary's Church and the Royal British Legion Club in Melton will be showing the King's Coronation on big screens

Big screens to show the King's Coronation in Melton Mowbray

The new plastic-free poppy (Photo: Royal British Legion)

Royal British Legion announce new plastic-free Remembrance Day poppies

The Royal British Legion have announced their 2023 poppies will be entirely plastic free

Some of the former and existing staff who attended yesterday's Melton Times reunion at the Royal British Legion club in Melton

Former Melton Times staff over the last 40 years gather for reunion

New committee members, from left: vice-chair Joe Jackson, chair Andy Peacock and secretary Naomi Hollingsworth

New lease of life for Melton's historic Legion club

A photo from last year's 40s Weekend Melton Mowbray

How to get involved in 40s Weekend Melton Mowbray

Big crowds gather for Melton's Remembrance Sunday parade

‘At the going down of the sun we will remember them’

Melton's Remembrance Sunday parade makes its way down Leicester Street last year

Remembrance Sunday parade expected to draw big crowds

War veterans David John Dade (Left) and Ken Sprowles at the launch of the Royal British Legion's Poppy Appeal in central London (photo: Getty Images)

Annual Poppy Appeal is launched across the UK

Wreaths lay at the foot of the Cenotaph after the Remembrance Day (getty images)

What you need to know about Remembrance Day

Members of the Melton Mowbray branch of the Royal British Legion, including Poppy Appeal organiser Danny O'Brien, with Rev Pat Olivent-Hayes, at the dedication service on Saturday

Melton's annual Poppy Appeal is launched

UK November train strikes: When are the next RMT strikes and how will industrial action impact Sunderland and the Metro? (Photo by Hollie Adams/Getty Images)

Network Rail November rail strikes - new dates

Melton's Royal British Legion Club

Melton's Royal British Legion social club saved from closure

The Royal British Legion social club in Melton Mowbray

Melton's legion social club threatened with closure

The buffet lunch at Harby village hall in honour of the Royal British Legion

Villagers celebrate British legion milestones

An image from this year's Melton 1940s event

Plans for parade at next Melton 1940s event

Mayor of Melton, Councillor Alan Hewson, pictured with the Armed Forces Day flag this morning

Melton flies the flag on Armed Forces Day

George and Jacqui Noble, who were married for 54 years EMN-220217-170938001

Special tributes to be paid to Melton man who died after town road collision

Today's Remembrance Sunday parade through Melton Mowbray town centre EMN-211114-172938001

Big crowds line Melton’s streets for Remembrance Sunday parade

The Remembrance display created by students and staff at Melton's John Ferneley College with, from left, Melton Royal British Legion branch members Danny O'Brien and Peter Roffey, Mayor of Melton, Councillor Peter Faulkner, and school head of design technology, Sharon Rowell EMN-210911-095309001

Stunning community displays light up Remembrance week in Melton area
Some truly stunning displays have been created across the Melton area this week to pay tribute to fallen servicemen and women as we prepare for Sunday’s traditional Remembrance Parade through the town.

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Community rallies to support Melton Poppy Appeal

The Remembrance Day parade pass down Leicester Street in Melton in November 2019 EMN-211026-164802001

Remembrance Parade to go ahead in Melton next month

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This is why some people wear white poppies to mark Remembrance Day

Remembrance Day: the history of the Poppy Appeal and the Royal British Legion

Wreaths at the war memorial in Melton's Memorial Gardens in November 2019 EMN-200311-172712001

Melton residents advised to stay at home to mark Remembrance Sunday

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Melton Poppy Appeal plans affected by Covid

Here’s how to support Royal British Legion’s poppy appeal this year

Coronavirus restrictions will impact Remembrance Day services - what you need to...

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New Melton autism support group to start for parents and carers

Major Carolyn Bates representing the Defence Animal Training Regiment plants a crossat the Memorial Gardens during a service to launch the 2019 Poppy Appeal in Melton EMN-191029-151743001

Poppy Appeal launched for Melton borough

Malcolm 'Jock' Bryson, who is stepping in to run the 2019 Melton Poppy Appeal on behalf of rhe town branch of the Royal British Legion EMN-190306-154306001

New Melton Poppy Appeal organiser sought after resignation

The landlords at the Noel's Arms pub in Melton, David Lawrence and Jessica Cresswell EMN-191104-165449001

Melton pubs work together to stage special Easter festival

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New Melton family fun event to celebrate St George’s Day
Families will get the chance to celebrate St George’s Day in Melton with a special fun day in the town centre.

Villagers and members of Hose and Harby branch of the Royal British Legion at a service of dedication for a new war memorial stone at Barkestone-le-Vale EMN-190322-091822001

Villagers attend dedication service for new war memorial at Barkestone-le-Vale

Fran Hearn, who plans to do a 65-mile trek through First World War battlefields to raise money for the Royal British Legion in memory of her late husband, Trevor EMN-180724-091634001

Melton historian's widow prepares for Great War battlefields trek

Melton in Bloom representatives Brian Hodder, Maureen Betts and Lucy Wood, with borough councillor Simon Lumley in the cemetery where they are campaigning to get graves of former servicemen cleaned up EMN-180905-150135001

Graves of Melton war heroes to be cleaned up after campaign was forged

Enter your team for fun Melton Lions quiz

Chris and Caroline Platts with their children Ruby, Harry and Phoebe. The family are benefiting from the Poppy Appeal fund following Caroline's illness. EMN-171113-102311001

Poppy Appeal Fund comes to the aid of Melton army veteran's family

The 'drumhead' altar is constructed from drums at Sage Cross Church at a service to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Melton's fallen at the Battle of Passchendaele during the First World War EMN-170731-102310001

Moving service to honour fallen Melton soldiers at Passchendaele

Jennifer, Lady Gretton with branch members, branch president, Graham Shipman and Standard Bearers from Royal British Legion branches across the East Midlands PHOTO: Melanie Davies

Hose and Harby Legion branch celebrates its 90th anniversary with parade

Eliza Hill who was crowned champion in 2016 PHOTO: Supplied

Contestants wanted for eighth Vale's Got Talent

Harby Christmas Tree Festival PHOTO: Supplied

Christmas trees glisten at Harby

Wreath layers Pat Wilson, Frederick Thompson and Peter Roffey outside the Royal British Legion HQ in Melton during the Armistice Day service EMN-161128-104813001

Almost £20,000 collected in Melton area for Poppy Appeal