Oakham School, Music In The Chapel, Oakham, Rutland, Harry Harris

Oakham School, Music In The Chapel, Oakham, Rutland

Thursday 22nd September 2011

7.45pm

"Harry Harris is the best damn pianist in the civilised world" Jonathan Ross

In a coup for Oakham, they are delighted to present the
extraordinarily talented and musically versatile Paul Harry Harris.
Quite simply, Harry does things with the piano that you've
never heard before, moving seamlessly between jazz, caberet
and classical.

He's had his own show on BBC Radio 2, been resident pianist
on Channel 4's Big Breakfast, run a nine piece band on Jonny
Vaughan Tonight, appeared with a who's who of British jazz
musicians, accompanied just about everybody in the business
from Charlotte Church to David Bowie... the list is endless

Unmissable!

Ticket details boxoffice@oakham.rutland.sch.uk

A Celebration of Oakham Art, Oakham School, Oakham, Rutland

A Celebration of 
Oakham Art

to Tuesday 11th October 2011

Enjoy a selection of the best art work from
the summer exhibitions.

The Art Students show their skills and ideas,
from macabre textiles inspired by the tale of
Sweeney Todd, to portrait paintings illustrating
Greek tragedies.

There is also a celebration of ten years of 
IB Visual Arts Course. Showing a slide selection
of students' final exhibitions.


The Smallbone Library, 10am - 6pm


Free Admission.

Chairman of the Leicestershire Police Authority, Barry Roper, Good Bye

Simon Cole Chief Constable (left)  Barrie Roper, Chairman of Leicestershire Police Authority (centre) 

Paul Stock, Chief Executive, Police Authority (right)

Conservative County Councillor Barry Roper, Chairman of the Leicestershire Police Authority says its regrettable the authority will be abolished next year.

I say great take the politics out of policing, for far to long Rutland County Council Conservatives have held a strangle hold over an infective police force.

Its about time the government also took away the police self regulatory powers, because they don't work.

I am personally still awaiting nearly 10 months I believe for the results of three simple complaints against former Rutland Chief: Inspector Monks. Three simple complaints about his abuse of his authority.

Under Barry Ropers chairmanship Leicestershire Police have had to deal with some very high profile investigations, each time they publicly show remorse and as expected each time the outcome of any investigations comes to nothing.

Its no wonder members of Leicestershire Constabulary like Cllr Adam Lowe write to me taunting me about the outcome of my complaints. It appears the police have become accustomed to the fact internal investigations don't cause them any harm.

I watch dispatches last night on C4 and was interested to note from the programme, Leicestershire Police could learn from Essex Police. Racist Hate mail is intercepted at the post office and handed to Essex Police.

It appears Leicestershire Constabulary don't have any relationship with Royal Mail here in Rutland or Leicestershire as my post lady is happy to deliver post to my home, addressed in anyway friends of Rutland County County Council care to think up.

Once Inspector Monks was moved to Loughborough, local officers have taken too handling these letters in the correct way. They no longer vanish or get lost, they are correctly crimed and tested.

I hope the newly elected Police Commissioner is not a Rutland Tory...

Johnston Press plc is killing local Journalism with cuts after cuts

We are expected to fork out 50p for a tiny weekly paper, I am no journalist and I am sometimes rather harshly told I can't spel

Although I would not want to see the local staff loose their jobs at a time when the Johston Press is swinging the axe. I do feel they could do much better.

I notice the spelling mistakes, the incomplete press releases from our Conservative Rutland County Council.
There is quite a bit of criticism out there in the world wide web.

But just like Rutland County Council and Oakham Town Council  who consider the Rutland Times  their propaganda tool, they seem blinkered to this.

(Its Kate Adie's Birthday today Happy Birthday.) She once told me it would be a bad day for democracy if we saw the demise of newspapers.


Possibly something councils like Rutland County Council would be pleased to see.


We all have something to look forward too, in future publications of the Rutland Times. Oakham Town Councillor John Nowell has been given a new role. He will write stories about Town Council meetings after they have been vetted by the Chairman Cllr Lucas and the Deputy Chairman Cllr Haworth the will be sent to the Rutland Times, providing of course a very unbiased journalistic content for the Rutland Times readers to enjoy along side Cllr Lucas's egotistic column "My Town,  My County"

One of the Rutland Times on-line critics below:

rickyvthevip:

BREAKING NEWS IN RUTLAND

I have recently returned from my time at university in Edinburgh, one of the world’s great cities - a bustling European capital full of character, tales and culture at every turn down it’s meandering streets - to Rutland.




Like all quality journalism, it takes 124hours and 15minutes to report a story that consists of two sentences and 31 words. 31 words frothing with news, overfilling out of the chalice of journalism, though. Obviously, to ensure the gravitas of this tragedy, ‘EMERGENCY’ has to be spelt in capitals.
Rutland I love you, but your bringing me down…