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• Full peal at All Saints Church Oakham

  Bells rang out for three and a half hours yesterday at All Saints Church in Oakham as visiting ringers from the Ancient Society of Colleges carried out a full peal of what they describe as the finest bells in the county.

• 161 arrests during drink and drug driving campaign

   Leicestershire police has revealed 161 arrests were made during its summer drink and drug driving campaign, which ran alongside the World Cup Tournament and say far too many motorists are continuing to put their own lives and the lives of others at risk.

• Stamford fires treated as arson

   Police in Stamford are treating two fires at a house in Emmanuel Road as arson.

• Rutland planning permission decisions

   A scheme to build over 200 homes off Burley Road in Oakham has been approved after outline permission was already given.

• Rutland County Council cannot refuse planning permission for development in Gt Casterton

  Rutland County Council's Planning Committee say, despite Anglian Water saying they haven't got the capacity to take away the wastewater on a new development in Great Casterton, they were powerless to refuse the application for 58 houses backing onto Ermine Rise.

• New Rector for Uppingham

  A new Rector has been officially welcomed into the Uppingham Benefice.

• 2000 sign petition opposing local government reorganisation

  Over 2000 people have signed Alicia Kearns's petition in the first two days, opposing plans to reorganise local government across Rutland, Stamford, South Kesteven and the Harborough villages.

• Weekend sports round up

• Temporary reduced timetable for East Midlands Railway

  East Midlands Railway is running a temporary reduced timetable following reliability issues of their new Hitachi 810 trains and maintenance of their existing Class 222 fleet.

• Triple anniversary of local wildlife

  A triple anniversary of local wildlife was held last night overlooking what was originally called Empingham Reservoir.

• Barrowden Fest 2026

   A two day festival of music, art and dance begins today in Barrowden.

• Warning of the dangers of fires being lit in the countryside

   Oakham fire station's warning of the dangers of fires being lit in the countryside, especially in the dry weather, after visiting a number of woodland locations across the county yesterday afternoon and finding evidence of campfires, bonfires, and wild sleeping with a load of litter being left behind too.