Samaritan's Purse, Last chance to drop in your shoeboxes at Oakham Baptist Church today between 10 and 12 for Operation Christmas Child Shoeboxes.

 Last chance to drop in your shoeboxes at Oakham Baptist Church today between 10 and 12 for Operation Christmas Child Shoeboxes. 

Pinder's Circus in Uppingham

Pinder's Circus in Uppingham

Saturday, October 30th, 2021

Runs until Sunday, October 31st, 2021 

2:00pm - 7:00pm

Tod's Piece, Uppingham, LE15 9QJ

Price

From £6

Acrobats, cartoon characters, jugglers, magicians, hula hoop, wild west acts and more!

Tickets £6 flat rate for Wednesday and Friday.

Show times: Wed, Thu, Fri 4.30pm and 7pm

Sat 2.00pm and 5pm

Sun 2.00pm only

No bookings, doors open 30 minutes before each show. Seating is first come, first served. Covid secure venue.

Tod's Piece

North Street East

Uppingham

LE15 9QJ

Plenty of Fuel Being Delivered Here in Oakham, Hoyer Fuel Truck Oakham Rutland

Plenty of Fuel Being Delivered Here in Oakham, Hoyer Fuel Truck Oakham Rutland

Rutland Big Band Performed the last band concert of 2021 in Cutts Close Oakham Rutland Today

Rutland Big Band Performed the last band concert of 2021 in Cutts Close Oakham Rutland Today

Melton Band performed in Cutts Close Oakham Rutland Yesterday (12th September 2021) Next week Rutland Big Band Prom in The Park.

Melton Band performed in Cutts Close Oakham Rutland Yesterday (12th September 2021)

The turn out started well, unlike other weeks this year people soon gave up their seats and departed in large numbers. This can be seen from the photo I took around 3pm and the video around 45 minutes later. Some comments heard were not the best for the band. There was sympathy for one of the band members who performed after very recently suffering a heart attack.

Oddly most of the band decided the grass in front of the Bandstand was a car park, they did move all but one car to the proper car park when asked by the council, the red car that remained could not be removed because the band members wife had gone elsewhere. I often wonder why bands think it is fine to drive their cars through our park. They don't do it to get to the Bandstand in Play Close Melton. 

The band played quite a dreary set and this could be felt in the atmosphere in the park. The were long gaps between each piece played. The last two pieces played were much more lively, I assume this was to ensure no one was left sleeping in the park over night.

Next week is the last band concert in the park for the year. Rutland Big Band will be performing Prom in the Park.

This years band concerts have been very popular after Oakham Town Council dropped some of the regular boring bands. Yesterdays performance and turnout was a little reminder of the disastrous past.

I think wrinkle rock is missed a lot, unfortunately most of those band members are now too old to perform so I am told.

People Enjoyed Hathern Band in Cutts Close Oakham Rutland Oakham Town Council Summer Band Concerts Harborough Band 22nd August 2.30pm - 4.30pm

Yesterday (Sunday 15th August) People Enjoyed Hathern Band in Cutts Close Oakham Rutland.

Oakham Town Council Summer Band Concerts continue with Harborough Band 

22nd August 2.30pm - 4.30pm 

It was good to see the return of stalls at the event, it reminded of the first time I visited Oakham

over 15 years ago.

Art Stall

Cllr Jean Denyer MBE

Oakham Deputy Mayor

girl guiding 

Cllr Sally Anne Wadsworth and Steve

Di Smith and Craft Stall

Brendan Rodgers manager of Premier League club Leicester City says 'he works in local shop here in Oakham Rutland and that is why I am so popular'

Brendan Rodgers manager of Premier League club Leicester City says 'he works in local shop here in Oakham Rutland and that is why I am so popular'

Brendan Roger waiting for a Hoagies Sandwich

Today I met Brendan Rodgers the Northern Irish professional football manager and former player who is the manager of Premier League club Leicester City. A lot of people were asking him for selfies and he was agreeing to have his photograph taken. I was not sure who he was, so I asked him and he cheekily replied that he worked in a local shop and was very popular. It suggest he was fibbing, although there may have been a little truth with him saying he worked in a shop and that is why he was popular, he once worked for John Lewis in their main warehouse in Bracknell.  I asked a man who hand taken a selfie of Brendon whilst he waited with others for a sandwich from Hoagies of Oakham.

This reminded me of the time I was asked for a selfie in Tesco, I was working one Easter weekend, a man and his wife asked. The man had remembered me from my primary school days. I did not remember him.

No Confidence in Food Standard Agency Rating System Rutland County Council

No Confidence in Food Standard Agency Rating System Rutland County Council

A local resident sent me the above photo, after a Rutland business was given the high rating of 5 for hygiene. I went to take a look and found most of the equipment like this domestic appliance being used and surfaces visible from a public area were filthy. 

The few businesses that managed in the past to scrape one must have been very or there must be something very wrong with the rating system.

Or is it because the landlord is the inspector in this case?

The Universal Stores - Devonshire Street Manchester, GUS PLC Great Universal retail division sold to Sainsbury was a large mail order business based in Manchester since 1900.

The Universal Stores - Devonshire Street Manchester, GUS PLC Great Universal retail division sold to Sainsbury was a large mail order business based in Manchester since 1900. 

Since Allan Grey wrote in the Rutland Times, he had found Confidential Rutland County Council Documents in Cutts Close Park, I keep a eye out for more, I was not expecting to find these this morning.

Since Allan Grey wrote in the Rutland Times, he had found Confidential Rutland County Council Documents in Cutts Close Park, I keep a eye out for more, I was not expecting to find these this morning.

At first I did not want anything to do with them, then I decided it would be good to take some photos.

Then I decided to send a message to a Lib dem Councillor. She messaged me back and said the election team was looking for them. She also said the postal votes had not yet been sent out. I assume the brown envelopes makes her think they are postal votes. Although she told me the postal votes had not yet been sent out. 

When I returned to Church passage, what I had photographed had gone. 

A RCC employee was looking around, she spoke to me and said the grass cutters who had just cut the grass had not seen anything.

A Conservative Cllr arrived and said the police had been called and suggested the bins should be checked.

Unusually one bin was empty, in another bin some ballot papers were found. I don't know if they are real. I have seen many thousands over the years and they certainly looked real.

The Conservative Cllr also said the postal votes had not been sent out.

The Council employee said they had been sent out. Apparently that is before the date shown on the election timetable.

It was confusing because not long before I had seen a former town councillor posting what looked like two postal votes at the  main post box this morning. So I assume the council employee is correct they have been sent out.

There was talk between the Cllr and employee that some one may claim election fraud. 

Some one has since said they are fake, if that is true then they are good fakes. I wonder if  they were meant for Allan?

Victoria Baths is a Grade II listed building, in the Chorlton-on-Medlock area of Manchester, in northwest England.

Victoria Baths is a Grade II listed building, in the Chorlton-on-Medlock area of Manchester, in northwest England. 

The Baths opened to the public in 1906 and cost £59,144 to build. Manchester City Council closed the baths in 1993 and the building was left empty. A multimillion-pound restoration project began in 2007. 

As of 2009, the building is on English Heritage's Heritage at Risk Register.

Formerly The Wellington Renamed Mother Mac’s after a former landlady in 1969 Mother Macs, 33 Back Piccadilly, Manchester M1 1HP

Formerly The Wellington Renamed Mother Mac’s after a former landlady in 1969 

in 1976 the 29-year-old pub manager, Arthur Bradbury, was given notice to quit so he revenged himself the coward’s way by killing all around him, his 34-year-old wife Maureen, his 6-year-old daughter Alison and his step-sons James and Andrew, aged 11 and 13 respectively. The cleaner walked in on the carnage so he killed her too and then set the pub on fire to hide the evidence, but justice caught up with him and he ended up killing himself too. Six deaths on 18 June, 1976. 

The Alan Turing Memorial situated in Sackville Park Manchester England Holding a new Bank of England £50 Note

The Alan Turing Memorial situated in Sackville Park Manchester England Holding a new Bank of England £50 Note.

Anti-vaccine protesters try to storm Covid test centre in Manchester Protesters chant ‘shame on you’ at police during 'rally for freedom' Storm Arndale Shopping Centre and then march through city centre.

Anti-vaccine protesters try to storm Covid test centre in Manchester Protesters chant ‘shame on you’ at police during 'rally for freedom' Storm Arndale Shopping Centre and then march through city centre.

The Press Reports Protesters tried to storm this test centre

and chanted 'shame on you at the police'

They were chanting at the test centre just

and repeated the chanting on the way out of the 

Arndale Centre this time there police were not 

guarding the centre the staff like other shops had 

locked their doors.

Lots of police were on standby in nearby streets.

The protesters continued to 

Piccadilly Garden

The Police Inspector 

looks happy.

Whilst all the protesters are Free

I was not free to shop and the 

people enjoying the freedom

of the park on a sunny day lost

there freedom to do that

freedom is a funny thing.

The Arndale Shopping Centre 

suddenly got very busy.