MELTON MOWBRAY TOWN and COUNTRYSIDE NEWS

MELTON MOWBRAY
URBAN and COUNTRYSIDE NEWS

(There is a locally-produced Online International Cook Book which may be worthy of a further browse. )

Melton Mowbray & District Twinning Association website archive (30th May 2000 to 25th March 2004) is still available via this link.

Claire Lomas, of Eye Kettleby, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire an extremely talented event rider, who has produced horses and competed at 4* level, had a freak accident while competing at Osberton Horse Trials in May 2007.
She collided with a tree which resulted in fractures to her neck, back and ribs. She suffered a punctured lung, pneumonia, had to have a tracheotomy to help her breathe and was in intensive care for 10 days.
The fracture in her back caused damage to Claire's spinal cord resulting in her being transferred to the Northern General Hospital's Spinal Injuries Unit. Claire left Sheffield after 8 weeks - the shortest time anyone has ever spent in that hospital with her type of injury.
Claire is still paralysed but determined to get better.
She is at home now but we need to raise money to help her with her rehabilitation. She has been to America to do 'Project Walk'. Apart from regular physiotherapy, she needs equipment that will aid her recovery.

Melton Carnegie Museum is the intended locus for the project Foxhunting Past, Present and Future under the aegis of The Museum of Hunting Trust which will be a virtual exhibition covering the entire subject controversial and otherwise.
A spur to this is the recent (May 2005) Heritage Lottery Fund's award of Ł50,000.
There is more information on this and related items at the 24-Hour Museum website

The HUNTING ACT 2004 came into force on 18th February 2005 after which date a person commits an offence (s1) if he hunts a wild mammal with a dog, unless his hunting is exempt - (exempt hunting is defined in the Act).
A person commits an offence if he knowingly permits land which belongs to him to be entered or used in the course of the commission of an offence under section 1 and a person also commits an offence if he knowingly permits a dog which belongs to him to be used in the course of the commission of an offence under section 1.
The full text of the Act can be downloaded from: http://www.inforoute.hmso.gov.uk/acts/acts2004/20040037.htm

Some items hitherto appearing on this Rural Aspect website have been preserved in our NEWS ARCHIVE for reference purposes.

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