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A St John Ambulance volunteer at a fireworks display

Remember, remember first aid in November

Melton's Poppy Appeal is short of volunteers

Volunteers desperately needed for Melton's Poppy Appeal

Volunteers are sought by Melton Child Contact Centre

Volunteers sought to help local children affected by family breakdowns

Jenny Hendry, manager at Pepper's - A Safe Place

Volunteers sought by Melton wellbeing centre

MOWS volunteers aboard their dredging boat Mole in the River Eye

Work progresses to set up boat hire and boating trip station on Melton river

Loch Ness Monster 2023: Volunteers wanted for biggest ‘monster hunt’ in 50 years - how to apply

Volunteers wanted for biggest Loch Ness Monster hunt in 50 years

Louis the Jack Russell with his owner after being rescued

Dog rescued after falling down one of UK’s biggest waterfalls

A seven-week-old guide dog puppy running through a field - 20 Melton homes are needed for guide dog pups

Can you provide a home for a guide dog pup?

The new mapping exhibition at Melton Carnegie Museum showing changes in the town over 200 years

Fascinating maps exhibition charts changes in Melton over the last 200 years

Jerry Filor (left) with the renamed and redecorated replica canal barge in Heritage Gardens and (right) Melton In Bloom volunteers plant the gardens

Tribute to the late Queen added to Melton's Heritage Gardens

Friends of Melton Country Park volunteers adding their willow dragonfly sculptures to the bird hide

More than 20 volunteers join forces to spruce up Melton Country Park
More than 20 volunteers with Friends of Melton Country Park were out in force on Bank Holiday Monday as part of 'The Big Help Out' for the King's Coronation celebrations.

PD Arnie has graduated as a police dog despite harsh conditions in his early life

Puppy graduates as police dog after being found during raid

Metropolitan Police officers march along The Mall in London as they head to their positions for of the coronation processions of King Charles III and Queen Camilla.

Coronation: Street safety volunteers arrested over rape alarm concerns

Sally Field pictured with the late Paul O’Grady

Britain's oldest dog walker crowned coronation champion by RSPCA

Latest news from the Royal British Legion

New organiser and volunteers sought for Melton Poppy Appeal

The cast for the highly anticipated Hunger Games prequel film The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes has been revealed. (Credit: Getty Images)

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - full cast

Thousands of volunteers are needed to offer their helping hands over the course of King Charles III’s coronation celebrations - Credit: Getty Images

King Charles III coronation looking for thousands of volunteers

Frends of Melton Country Park volunteers preparing the Royal Bed for wild flower seed sowing

Volunteers working hard to spruce up Melton Country Park

The NHS has re-launched its Check in and Chat service for isolated patients

NHS re-launches volunteer service for lonely and isolated patients

British National dies in Ukraine, Foreign Office confirms

British National dies in Ukraine, Foreign Office confirms

The British Pie Awards takes place next month

Volunteers needed to help with British Pie Awards at Melton

Just Stop Oil protesters guilty of conspiring to cause public nuisance at Silverstone British GP

Just Stop Oil guilty over British GP track invasion - watch protest

A dead 12ft whale was washed up on the banks of a British river last week.

Huge dead whale found washed up British river bank

Andrew Bagshaw, 48, and Christopher Parry, 28, have gone missing in Donetsk, Ukraine.

Two British men who volunteered in Ukraine go missing

A walrus called Thor was spotted having a rest at Scarborough Harbour ahead of the New Year

Walrus pays a visit to Scarborough harbour en route to the Arctic

The volunteers who collected food for 137 Christmas hampers for struggling Melton families and pensioners

Volunteers provide 137 Christmas hampers for struggling Melton people

Meet some of the volunteers at Trussell Trust food banks in the UK

April Jones went missing in October 2012 - her body was never found.

Mystery of April Jones as Channel 4 documentary revisits murder

The three-part true crime documentary follows the search for the five-year-old in 2012, which became one of the biggest in UK history

Crates of food at a Trussell Trust food bank (Photo: Trussell Trust)

Trussell Trust foodbanks need people to donate these items

Flossie, pictured here with new owner Vicki, has been named the world’s oldest cat by the Guiness Book of World Records.

UK cat Flossie officially named world’s oldest moggie

Lindsey Stockton (far right, holding framed document) with food bank colleagues

National World campaign: A day in the life of a Trussell Trust worker

Crates of food at a Trussell Trust food bank (Photo: Trussell Trust)

National World launch Trussell Trust winter fundraiser

EasyJet is bringing its Fearless Flyer course back to Gatwick Airport on Sunday, November 27, to help nervous flyers take control and overcome their fears. Picture by PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA/AFP via Getty Images

Passenger dies during flight between Cyprus and London

The team who are collecting food and supporting isolated and struggling people in Melton this Christmas

Volunteers prepare to help struggling people in the Melton area this Christmas

Dolphins spotted in UK waters as pod swim happily alongside RNLI boat - watch video taken of sighting

Dolphins spotted swimming alongside RNLI rescue boat

The Battle of Britain parade in Melton

Battle of Britain parade to return to Melton's streets after three-year break

Latest Melton news

Melton network session for volunteers and community group members

Dog mess near the boundary at Old Dalby Cricket Club

Villagers lock horns over dog mess issue on cricket field

Latest school news

Volunteers sought to help make county school roads safer

LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 20: The Mall which has been lined with Union Flags in preparation for the Queens Jubilee, on May 20, 2022 in London, England. The Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II is being celebrated from June 2 to June 4, 2022, in the UK and Commonwealth to mark the 70th anniversary of the accession of Queen Elizabeth II on 6 February 1952. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Volunteers sought for Melton royal re-enactments

Making traditional Melton Mowbray Pork Pies during their Visit to Ye Olde Pork Pie Shoppe in Melton Mowbray... L-R Stephen Hallam, managing director of Dickinson and Morris, Brian Stein, group chief executive of Samworth Brothers, Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall EMN-220124-154543001

Share your royal Melton memories for museum’s Platinum Jubilee exhibition

Latest council news EMN-211110-094521001

Afghan family resettled in Melton as part of government scheme

Melton Borough Councillor Deputy Mayor, Councillor Alan Hewson, officially opens the Storehouse service at its new base in the Hope Centre in Nottingham Street, Melton EMN-210509-134927001

Food and emotional support resumes at Storehouse’s new HQ

The poster for this weekend's 1940s-themed event in Melton EMN-210823-153625001

Weekend event will transport Melton back to 1940s

Members of the Leicestershire and Rutland Blood Bikes, which this month has received The Queen's Award for Voluntary Service EMN-210406-151544001

Royal approval for county blood bikers
A charity which involves volunteer motorbikers delivering blood samples and other vital medical products and provisions to hospitals across Leicestershire and Rutland has been given the prestigious Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service.

Members of Melton Wombles out on a litter pick EMN-210206-121333001

Will you help on the big Melton clean-up day?

You could be paid £4,500 to contract Covid as part of a new research project (Photo: Shutterstock)

You could be paid £4,500 to contract Covid as part of a new research project

Councillor Louise Richardson, Leicestershire County Council cabinet member for communities issues EMN-210218-103102001

Free equipment available to Melton borough’s litter pickers

The new study will be conducted on over 800 participants (Photo: Jane Barlow - Pool/Getty Images)

A trial to confirm if Covid vaccine types can be mixed is underway - what we kno...

Melton Matters Wombles members John Spencer and Sharon Mccutcheon with 30 bags of rubbish they collected on Monday in Melton EMN-210302-141025001

Melton fly-tipping investigations up 50 per cent

Vaccinations against coronavirus are being rolled out across the UK EMN-210114-132059001

Melton volunteers sought to help with Covid jab roll-out

Sikh communities and a football team came together to feed stranded Dover lorry ...

This charity is looking for volunteers to befriend the elderly over the phone

Could you volunteer to help? (Photo: Shutterstock)

The government wants 250,000 volunteers to help the NHS and the vulnerable - her...

As cases of coronavirus in the UK continue to rise, it is heartwarming to see communities coming together to look out for their most vulnerable members (Photo: Shutterstock)

Communities are forming ‘mutual aid groups’ to help people in need during the co...