News in Oakham

Rutland's only women's cricket team is holding a soft ball tournament later this month to encourage more women and girls to sign up for the sport.

The Marko Marvels, part of Market Overton Cricket Club, is staging the free fun competition on Sunday, 30 June at the club's home in Thistleton Road, Market Overton.

Organisations, families and individuals in Oakham are being sought to show visitors from Barmstedt Twinning Association all that is great about the town and forge new friendships.

A group of six residents from the north west German town will be in Oakham for five days early next month.

An ambulance and two cars were involved in a collision on the A606 near Whitwell yesterday (Mon) evening.

The incident happened on the main road towards Empingham.

Oakham in Bloom's fascinating history features in a five-page article in the summer issue of Evergreen magazine - thanks to the organisation's joint founder Joyce Lucas.

Evergreen, a quarterly publication that takes readers on a leisurely, often nostalgic journey, around Great Britain, encourages readers to submit articles to be considered for publication.

The world-famous Flying Scotsman will be steaming through Oakham later this month.

The iconic steam locomotive no 60103 is passing through Rutland as part of The Railway Touring Company's The Yorkshireman railtour from London Ealing Broadway to York on Saturday, 29 June.

Oakham United FC is set to launch its first adult women's team as part of a number of exciting initiatives designed to enhance the clubs community engagement opportunities.

The women's team is in the early stages of development and will only press ahead if sufficient numbers of women are willing to commit ahead of the 2019-2020 season.

An 11-year-old angler fishing in his first ever match stunned all the other adult competitors by reeling in first place.

Jamie Postlethwaite - who pays just £5 a year to be a junior member of Oakham Angling Society - bagged a bream and a roach in this morning's (Sat) four-hour match at the course fishing club's Oakham Canal fishery.

Hambleton Hall's michelin-starred restaurant features in the latest issue of Waitrose's Food magazine.

This month's (June) edition of the magazine has a retro flavour and a feature by Emma Hughes rounds up some of the British restaurants which 'have been quietly serving consistently fantastic food for decades'.

Last Sunday, the Greetham Valley Golf Club Gents played the Tudor Springs 4somes competition, the winners of which are then qualified to enter the national Daily Mail Foursomes competition.

In the competition the overall winners were Mark Mousley and Dave Morgan with a nett score of 70.5, just ahead of Steve Roche and Chris Proudman who scored 71.0 whilst Chris Hatch and Peter Maksymiw ended up in third place, also on 71.0 but losing out on countback.

An historic Braunston-in-Rutland pub owned by the same couple for 19 years is up for sale.

Charles Boote and his wife want to retire and have put the The Old Plough on the market at £695,000 for the freehold interest.