News in Oakham

The Rutland veterinary practice that played a part in the medal successes of last month's Olympic Games will be hoping to witness more medal glory this week.

Oakham Veterinary Hospital has two clients, rider Piggy March on horse Brookfield Innocent and Ros Canter on Allstar B, competing at the European Eventing Championships in Switzerland.

Oakham Nub News highlights the best jobs in and around our town in our recently-improved Jobs Section.

Every seven days or so, we also feature a job in greater detail through our Job of the Week article.

Rutland has recorded a further drop in it's 7-day case rate, giving a fall of a third in a week.

It has also exceeded 8 weeks without a single fatality.

Over 80 heritage vehicles took part in the 2021 Round Rutland Run which was hosted by the market town of Uppingham on Sunday.

Organised by the Uppingham First Community Partnership, the run featured a 39.5 mile circuit around the southern half of the county visiting its two reservoirs, its two market towns and a number of its most beautiful villages.

Oakham woman Carolynn Bennett has scooped £250 to spend in a shopping spree at the town's discount retailer QD – QualityDiscounts.com.

Carolynn was the lucky winner to be chosen at random in the competition which ran in the QD Oakham store on Church Street last month. To enter the prize draw, shoppers simply had to scan their reward card – a free loyalty scheme offered by QD.

Around one hundred people gathered to celebrate the life of the late Geoffrey Pointon at The Falcon Hotel in Uppingham, earlier this month.

The September 3 event, arranged by his family, drew people from across the East Midlands to celebrate Geoffrey's remarkable life.

Rutland and Lincolnshire stone specialists, Stamford Stone, took a team trip to Scotland, climbed Ben Nevis and raised over £8,318 (£9,540 with Gift Aid) for a local charity.

The impressive feat, completed by 20 colleagues, included an 22-hour round coach trip and 9 hours of walking, climbing and not to mention numerous blisters, slips and knee injuries!

An Oakham travel agent has jointly-won an award in the Travel Weekly Agent Achievement Awards.

Your Co-op Travel, which is inside Your Co-op Food, Burley Road, saw success in London last week as part of the 76-branch Your Co-op Travel, owned by the Midcounties Co-operative.

Oakham School recently marked a major milestone by celebrating 50 years of co-education with a special event for its Old Oakhamians.

OOs across the first few years of co-education from 1971 onwards returned to campus to celebrate the joint education of both boys and girls with a chapel service and afternoon tea.

Rutland Climate Action Group is holding a Great Big Clothes Swap at Uppingham Cricket Club this weekend as part of The Great Big Green Week .

Miranda Jones posted on Facebook: "Bring your clean, unwanted clothes (in good condition) down to the cricket club on Friday 24th September between 5.30pm and 7pm and get a ticket for every item donated.