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Hudson Sharpe racing his kart

Asfordby Valley family produces yet another track racing star

Chloé Videla celebrates her endurance race win with Charles PHOTO IndiePics Photography

Teenage Vale of Belvoir rider celebrates race win on beloved family horse

Current members of Tetsudo Martial Arts in Melton Mowbray

Members of Melton martial arts to celebrate 45th anniversary

Melton karate fighter Matt Bunn is crowned world champion in Hungary

Melton Mowbray karate fighter celebrates lifting world title

Previous winners in the Let's Get Moving Melton Awards

Make your nominations for the Let's Get Moving Melton Awards

Harrison Culpan - county title triple.

Melton Tennis Club's Harrison Culpan celebrates county titles triple success

From the left, with one of the new starting block covers at Melton's Waterfield Leisure Centre, Tracy McGhie (head coach), Cordy R, Becky Fox (Spire Leicester Hospital), Freddie W, Luke Millett (deputy head coach) and Conrad R

Melton Mowbray club's swimmers boosted by new sponsorship deal

Players at Melton Marvels Netball Club

Melton's netball club boosted by having all teams playing at single venue again

HRH The Princess Royal presenting Piggy March with the winner’s trophy at Burghley in 2022 (PHOTO DBHT/Peter Nixon)

Royal special guest to attend this year's Burghley Horse Trials

A court at the new Rally Yard Padel centre on Asfordby Business Park

Soft launch event for new Padel centre to raise money for charity

Ladies doubles finalists Tabitha Holmes, Charlotte Griffin, Isabella Cockrell, and Amy Eastman. Picture by Derek Walker of Leicester Forest Photographic Society.

County success for Melton's Charlotte Griffin in doubles
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Olivia Kohl riding Highland pony, Valerock Maverick

Olivia qualifies for prestigious national equestrian event for young riders

Silver medallist Australia's Iona Alexandra Anderson (L), gold medallist Canada's Kylie Masse (C) and bronze medallist England's Lauren Cox celebrate during the Women's 50m Backstroke Medal Ceremony at the swimming event at the Tollcross International Swimming Centre in Glasgow, on day five of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, on July 28, 2026. (Photo by Oli SCARFF / AFP via Getty Images)

Melton family celebrate Commonwealth Games bronze medal for swimmer Lauren

Sophie Hahn of Team England celebrates victory in the Women's 100 Metres T38 Final in Glasgow (Photo by Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images)

Former Melton Mowbray student wins Commonwealth Games gold medal

Amelia Coltman with the 2026 Winter Olympics mascot

Amelia Coltman retires months after achieving her Winter Olympics dream

Sean Bett - hoping to make the GB Dewar Rifle team to take on the USA. Photo by @nevs_photoshooting

Holwell Rifle Club's Sean Bett hoping to make GB team to take on USA

A computer image of what Rally Yard Melton will look like at Asfordby Business Park

New £850k Padel venue set to open at Asfordby Business Park

Co-founder Yusuf Esa with operations manager Demi Broughton in the former workshop which is being converted into the Play PDL centre at Melton's Pera Business Park

New Melton Padel and wellbeing centre hailed as unique lifestyle venue

GB Slovakia mission for Asfordby's Ben Spencer.

GB ball hockey call for Asfordby teen Ben Spencer

England call at last for Holwell's Sean Betts.

Holwell Rifle Club's Sean Betts gets call-up for England at last

East Midlands Quadrille Club (EMQC) members pictured after a fundraising event at Aylesford Equine X Country, near Melton PHOTO Jess Groom

Horse riders boost cancer charity with spectacular display

From left, Graham Lewin, Chris Clarke and Ian Bitmead celebrate land deal going through for the historic Holwell Sports site

11th hour bid secures future of historic Holwell sports site

Leicestershire head coach Alfonso Thomas

Coach Thomas praises Essex quality as Leicestershire are rushed out for 60

Sussex bowler Jack Carson celebrates the first-innings dismissal of Ben Green in his side's seven-wicket win over Leicestershire

Leicestershire remain winless as they suffer seven-wicket loss at Sussex

The sprint finish in Sherrard Street in April 2023 - the last time the international CiCLE Classic finished in Melton

Uncertainty over whether Melton finish to major cycling event will ever return

Action from the 20th SigmaSports/ Schwalbe UK Rutland International CiCLE Classic. Picture by Mighty Quinn Photos.

CiCLE Classic victory for Otto van Zanden

Riders gather at the start in Oakham for a previous CiCLE Classic.

'Best British cycle race' returns to Oakham and local villages on Sunday

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Youngsters enjoy Melton Mowbray Tennis Club's multisports week
Thirty plus youngsters took full advantage of the good weather to have lots of fun at the Melton Mowbray Tennis Club's Easter Multisport week.
Brent Horobin

Youngsters at the MMTC Easter Multisports week.

Youngsters enjoy Melton Mowbray Tennis Club's multisports week

Noemie Thompson wins the ANEXO/Cams Women’s CiCLE Classic in Melton on Sunday. Pic by Andy Smith Photography.

Noemie Thompson takes record win in Melton cycling Classic

Action from last year's Junior Men’s CiCLE Classic. Photo by John Walwyn.

British cycling stars back in Melton for two big races this Sunday

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, ITALY - FEBRUARY 10: Amelia Coltman of Team Great Britain participates during Women's Training Heat 4 on day four of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic games at Cortina Sliding Centre on February 10, 2026 in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. (Photo by Richard Heathcote/Getty Images)

Melton skeleton bob star Amelia's mixed feelings over Olympics finish

Stilton Striders members at the Desford 5.

Flying start to the year for Stilton Striders

Josh Quailey with some of the youngster at his new Melton boxing club

Josh wants to use boxing to provide a positive influence on Melton's youngsters

Amelia Coltman reacts to the crowd after heat two at Cortina.

Positive finish as Melton bob star Amelia finishes ninth at Winter Olympics

An exhausted Amelia Coltman at the end of the women's skeleton at the Winter Olympics (Photo by Carmen Mandato/Getty Images)

Family's pride as Amelia achieves her 'life long dream'

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CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, ITALY - FEBRUARY 14: Amelia Coltman of Team Great Britain reacts after competing during Women's Skeleton Heat Four on day eight of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic games at Cortina Sliding Centre on February 14, 2026 in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. (Photo by Mattia Ozbot/Getty Images)

Amelia saves her fastest run until last at the Winter Olympics

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, ITALY - FEBRUARY 13: Amelia Coltman of Team Great Britain competes during Women's Skeleton Heat One on day seven of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic games at Cortina Sliding Centre on February 13, 2026 in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. (Photo by Richard Heathcote/Getty Images)

Melton's Amelia Coltman completes first two runs at the Winter Olympics

Amelia Coltman during training at Milano Cortina. Photo by Richard Heathcote/Getty Images.

Melton bob star Amelia knows her time is now at Winter Olympics

Amelia Coltman with parents Gary and Theresa and her sister Charlotte

Pride and excitement as Coltman family prepares to cheer on Melton's Olympian

The vacant workshop at Pera earmarked for a new Padel Tennis and wellbeing facility

Plans to convert vacant Pera workshop into sports and wellbeing centre

W.Bro. David Alcraft (charity steward for St Mary's Freemasons' Lodge No 7164) presents a cheque for £500 to Melton Swimming Club's Tracy McGhie (head coach), Emma Redwood (chair) and Liz Rawson (president)

Melton Mowbray swimmers benefit from cash donation

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GB trio's close bonding could be key to Olympics glory for Melton's Amelia

A computer image of what the new Padel Tennis facility at Bottesford will look like

Plans approved for new Padel Tennis facility at Bottesford
Planning approval has been given for a new Padel Tennis facility in Bottesford which it is hoped will open in the summer.
Nick Rennie

Karting ace Aiden Ingram, who is preparing to race in the BRSCC Fiesta Junior Championship

Somerby 14-year-old moves up from karting to car racing

Amelia Coltman at the GB Winter Olympics kitting-out day.

Excited Melton skeleton bob star Amelia heads off to chase Winter Olympics glory

Harry Hudson receives a commemorative Melton Mowbray Pork Pie from Richard Griffiths, general manager of Ye Olde Pork Pie Shoppe, after winning last year's Junior CiCLE Classic

Melton Mowbray to host sprint finish of two major cycling events this spring

Dawn Jones wins Sportsperson of the Year

Local people deservedly recognised for getting Melton moving

Amelia Coltman, left with the GB Golden Globe winning team in Germany.

Winter Olympics D-Day looming for Melton skeleton bob star Amelia

Amelia Coltman in sliding action in St Moritz.

Sixth place in St Moritz for Melton Winter Olympic bob hopeful Amelia Coltman

Amelia Coltman in action at Winterberg, Gernany, last week.

Winter Olympics selection D-Day looming for Melton bob star Amelia

Amelia Coltman in sliding action for GB at Milano Cortina.

Melton sliding star Amelia tests out Olympics track with 10th place for GB

Participants in a previous Melton Santa Fun Run

Dozens of Santas set to run through Melton Country Park

Brownlow Primary School youngsters who won primary school team of the year at the 2024 Let's Get Moving Melton awards

Deadline approaching for nominations for Let's Get Moving Melton

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