Culture News & Updates
- 9th July 2009
What scientists predicted we would all have in our homes ...
- 8th July 2009
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang not allowed to appear in Norwich's parade
- 23rd June 2009
It's time for the annual Stamford Festival again, starting on Saturday
June 27th, with the Stamford and District Kiwanis parade this year with a myths and legends theme .There's a family fun day on the recreation ground on June 28th
(organised by the L
- 23rd June 2009
RUTLAND and Melton's MP Alan Duncan apparently claimed for the same
piece of furniture twice, according to The Times.They said that Mr Duncan submitted the claim for a £267.90 table top in
his constituency twice - first in November 2004 and again the f
- 15th June 2009
Unearthed under a road being built for the 2012 Olympics is an ancient
burial pit containing 45 severed skulls plus a tange of torsos and limbs. Thought to be a mass war grave dating back to Roman times, archaeologists excavating the site don't yet know
- 15th June 2009
According to Reuters, a fox has been found the culprit behind a spate of footwear thefts in a small Western German town recently. The stolen horde was stumbled upon by a forest worker, who found between 110 and 120 shoes strewn around the entrance a
- 14th June 2009
I'm sure most of you have heard about our next networking event which is on 22nd June at Finnan's Brasserie. We're running this one in conjunction with the Stamford Chamber of Trade and we've been busy phoning around and inviting people to come along.
- 14th June 2009
A free taster exhibition has been held at the Victoria Hall in Oakham for the annual Rutland Open Studios event, which runs from 20th June to 5th July.
There was a huge assortment of pieces on display from traditional paintings to textiles, jewellery
- 14th June 2009
Grimsthorpe Castle had to call out the bomb squad on Tuesday after a live handgrenade was found in a field near the main entrance.
The rusty and soil encrusted grenade was identified as a second world war Mills grenade by the Nottingham bomb squad wh
- 10th June 2009
I was so upset to read a week or so ago that one of the keeper's at The Lion Man's wildlife reserve Zion at Whangarei in New Zealand had been mauled to death by one of the tigers.
We knew that Craig Busch was no longer involved in the day to day runn