Saltby

Limousin bull Mereside Jester, bred by RM Hazard & Sons, Saltby Heath Farm, Skillington has joined the leading UK semen company Cogent. An embryo calf, Jester is a son of the French sire Armstrong and is out of Mereside Dawnmarie, an Alaska daughter ...

Members of 156 Battalion, the Parachute Regiment, were based at Melton before flying off to fight in the Battle of Arnhem in Holland from Saltby Airfield. Some of them were back at the airfield on Friday with their families to attend a service to ...

THE Battle of Arnhem and the brave heroes who fought and died there were remembered at a recent veterans' reunion at Saltby Airfield. The Parachute Regiment's 156 Battalion flew from the airfield to Arnhem nearly 70 years ago on September 18, 1944.

The granddaughter of a Second World War veteran who took part in the fabled raid on Arnhem in 1944 joined pupils in performing at a reunion event to mark the occasion. On Friday last week a reunion was held at Saltby Airfield near Melton Mowbray for ...

PUPILS from Croxton Kerrial Primary School have become the first visitors to the newly planted Bescaby Oaks Diamond Wood in Saltby. The wood, part of the Salbty Estate and owned by the de Capell Brooke family, is one of 60 woodlands planted ...

MEMORIAL REUNION: From left, the Duke of Rutland; Jack Downhill, pilot and final Commanding Officer of the 62nd Troop Carrier Squadron in the ETO; Bill Hyden, pilot and Ben Setliff, pilot recently attended a memorial dedication in Saltby ...