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BBC East Midlands Today is the BBC's regional television news programme for the East Midlands. The programme is broadcast on BBC One from studios at the BBC's East Midlands broadcasting centre in Nottingham with district newsrooms based in Derby and Leicester. The main transmitter for the programme is Waltham near Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire.
Melton Mowbray contains a rare example of early town government. The Melton Mowbray Town Estate [31] was founded in 1549, during the Reformation, when two townsfolk sold silver and plate sequestered from the church and bought land to be held in trust for all inhabitants. It provided early forms of education and the first street lighting, and ...
The Leicestershire County Show is held on the first Bank Holiday in May each year and includes animal showings, trade exhibitions and show jumping. Melton Mowbray Market is an important regional livestock market. Field sports remain an important part of the rural economy of Leicestershire, with stables, kennels and gunsmiths based in the county.
Melton Mowbray, best known for both the Melton Mowbray Pork Pie and St Mary's Church. It is the administrative centre of the borough. It is the administrative centre of the borough. Shown within Leicestershire .
Melton Mowbray appears to have become the Eye basin's trading centre in Saxon times. Its market probably predates the Norman conquest and is one of the few in England listed in the Domesday Book (1085). Melton continues as the main trading centre in the area throughout medieval times, up to the present day.
In the mid-19th century, a group of local businessmen decided to form a private company, known as the "Melton Mowbray Corn Exchange and Public Rooms Company", to finance and commission a purpose-built corn exchange for the town. The site they selected was on the east side of Nottingham Street. [2]
On market days the corn exchange was filled with up to 30 tables, and corn dealers and seedman hired the tables. The "Market Company" helped with the running costs and leased the market tolls from the Crown for 31 years. In December 1941 the corn exchange was opened as a British Restaurant, and catered for 600 people a day. By the 1950s and ...
A pair of Bagot goats being used for conservation grazing. Bagot goats have no commercial purpose being too small by comparison to the Boer Goat to be viable as a meat breed; producing high quality but low volumes of milk (consistent with generally producing a single kid) by comparison to the Swiss dairy breeds, and producing too little cashmere to compete with the Angora.