The Right Thing To Do
Plans to convert courtroom number one into a café have been approved by Rutland County Council.
The former owner of Oakham’s Castle Cottage Café will operate the café which is expected to open in May. The change of use application included the kitchen and outdoor space at the Castle.
The world premiere of a new song by a Rutland band, who achieved national radio airplay in the early 80's, took place this morning here on Rutland & Stamford Sound.
Could an oak tree in Rutland be crowned the National Tree of the Year?
Rutland County Council's moving ahead with the redevelopment of the County Museum to include a new cultural centre with architects releasing a design of how the building might look.
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.
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.
Police in Stamford are treating two fires at a house in Emmanuel Road as arson.
A scheme to build over 200 homes off Burley Road in Oakham has been approved after outline permission was already given.
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.
A new Rector has been officially welcomed into the Uppingham Benefice.
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
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.
