Stamford

Budding fundraisers from across Rutland have been getting into the Red Nose Day spirit to help raise money for Comic Relief.

Councillors have approved plans to create a new primary school in Oakham.

Rutland adventurer Sarah Outen is putting her feet up in the Big Apple after cycling from one coast of North America to the other.

Pupils at Bourne Academy hosted their very own rock show on Friday in aid of this year’s Comic Relief, helping to raise over £1,500 on Red Nose Day.

A Stamford care worker is gearing up to run this year’s London Marathon in memory of her godmother.

A young model was delighted to finish second in her category after impressing catwalk judges in a national competition.

A woman who shares her home with others to give vulnerable adults the chance to live in the community is calling on people to do the same.

The family of a little girl lost to a brain tumour are calling on the Government to invest more in finding a cure for the devastating disease.

The final funds raised for the Dosh4Defibs campaign have been handed over by pupils at St Augustine’s Primary School in Stamford.

A council leader who will step down at the coming election believes she has left her district “exceptionally well-placed” for the future.

Pupils from Catmose College in Oakham put on a winning performance at the district finals of the Rotary Youth Speaks Competition.

In the final set of official employment figures published on Wednesday, the East Midlands has come out on top as one of the highest employment rates in the UK, with 65,000 more people in work than this time last year.

The organiser of a charity match for an injured young sportsman has urged the Stamford community to come and show their support.

Two masked men who carried out a terrifying gunpoint hold-up at Colsterworth post office, were today jailed at Lincoln Crown Court following a lengthy investigation by Lincolnshire Police.

The sounds and smells of a funfair have been wafting through Stamford this week as the traditional Mid-Lent Fair hit town.

The famous Strictly glitterball trophy was brought home to Market Deeping this week, by our local hero Cassidy Little, who was crowned champion of the first ever People’s Strictly on BBC One.

A group of women from Bourne are appealing from one woman to another to donate their knickers to help women and children in Kenya.

A committee has now been formed to take forward the neighbourhood plan for Bourne, following a successful turnout at the latest meeting held this week.

People across the area witnessed a partial solar eclipse this morning.

A father will be taking on a 650-mile cycle challenge this year in memory of his daughter who died from a brain tumour aged just 22.