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  • More Travel

    17th April 2024

    Helen Dooley, Director of More Travel, describes the magic of the Sani Resort in Greece

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  • This April, Life Rituals, an integrative medicine and healthcare practice in Oakham, is launching a series of informative and empowering talks to support your physical and mental health at neighbouring cafe Fika. Clare Rudd-Jones caught up with Life Rituals’ founder, Jo George, to find out more about this exciting news

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  • Snowdrop Season

    22nd January 2024

    Is there anything more lovely than a walk through a garden or park in late winter and seeing thousands of snowdrops peppering the ground? They evoke a sense of cheer, flowering when little else does, marking the end of winter and the beginning of longer days and kinder weather. We look at special snowdrop-related events across the region.

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  • The Autumn of My Years

    16th November 2023

    Congratulations to Uppingham-based writer and actor Henry Dawe, whose three-part radio drama ‘The Autumn of My Years’ is being broadcast on Harborough FM from Thursday 16 November

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  • Rutland Calendar 2024

    22nd September 2023

    We take a look at the 2024 Rutland Calendar, produced by local photographer Richard Adams to raise money for charity, notably the Rutland Historic Churches Preservation Trust

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  • Hywel Pratley

    22nd September 2023

    Hywel Pratley is an eminent sculptor of international renown. He is a member of the Society of Portrait Sculptors and the Royal Society of Sculptors as well as being a principal instructor at the Florence Academy of Art. He also worked on the legendary ‘Spitting Image’ as Puppet Sculptor. He has created a very special statue of Her Late Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II for Rutland – the first in the UK to be commissioned – and it was unveiled in its new home behind Oakham Library on Sunday 21 April. Amander Meade spoke to Hywel about the project and the process

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  • Husband-and-wife team Laura and Paul McSorley have just celebrated two years of ownership of The Millstone at Barnack. Nicholas Rudd-Jones caught up with them and found them still brimful of energy and ideas

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  • When the new cast of the five-star West End musical ‘Hamilton’ was announced, it included former Stamfordian, Declan Spaine, in the title role. Amander Meade caught up with Declan during rehearsals for the smash hit musical

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