News in Oakham

Teenage South Luffenham F4 racing driver Teddy Wilson is teaming up with legendary sports marketing mogul Brian Sims to speak at Leicester Business Festival next month.

Brian is the former professional racing driver turned sponsorship and marketing expert who secured multi-million-pound deals with global corporations in Formula 1. 

A rare Anglo-Saxon gold buckle is to be the centrepiece of a new special display at Oakham's Rutland County Museum.

The buckle, only the fourth gold buckle to have been found in England, will go on show at the Rutland County Council-run museum next Wednesday (23 Oct), alongside pieces of a copper alloy Coptic bowl.

Dedicated champions of public safety are being honoured in a new awards contest marking the end of Leicestershire Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) Lord Willy Bach's term in office.

Nominations are now being sought for the PCC's Safer Community Celebration 2020 awards which recognise the outstanding contribution of community heroes across Rutland and Leicestershire.

Plans to demolish the Ram Jam Inn off the A1 at Stretton and build four commercial units on the site have been vetoed by a Government planning inspector.

Godwin Developments lodged an appeal after its application to develop the site - incorporating the inn, an area of overgrown open land and a large car park - was refused by the county council in October last year.

Business unit tenants in Ashwell are being supported by Rutland County Council after a small amount of overnight flooding affected their premises.

The localised flooding was caused when Langham Brook reached its peak at around 2am last night (Mon) and caused some drains in low-lying areas to overflow.

Ladies Friendly Team

Last Wednesday the ladies' team of Chris Edwards, Liz Haughton, Valda Austin, Susie Ellis, Dee Hinch, Cathy Steele, Eileen Pare and Sandy Begy played away at Belton Woods GC and secured a well fought 21/2 - 11/2 win.

Thieves targeted Rutland Sailing Club two nights running and in both incidents stole outboard motors.

The first theft happened at the Gibbet Lane compound in Edith Weston sometime between 2pm on Saturday, 5 and 9.10am on Sunday, 6 October.

Thieves stole 14 golf buggy batteries worth an estimated £20,000 after breaking into the driving range at Greetham Valley Golf Club.

The incident happened sometime overnight on Monday, 7 and Tuesday, 8 October.

Burglars broke into Boots in Oakham and escaped with a huge haul estimated to be worth £12,500 from the High Street store.

The thieves got into the shop by forcing a back door sometime overnight on the weekend of Saturday, 5 and Sunday, 6 October.

John Sparks the retiring President at Greetham Valley Golf Club, hosted his final President's Invitation Day recently and although the event was reduced to a nine hole Texas Scramble some 100 players turned out for golf and lunch with guests.

The winners of the two scrambles were Iain and Luc Affleck with George Chubb and Izzy Haughton (on the front nine) with an amazing score of 7-under gross; whilst the back nine winners were James Ablett with Ian Cunningham and Kevin Burdall who were 4-under gross.