Rutland and Stamford Sound

A four-day Community Festival begins today at Oakham Baptist Church, from cafes to a comedy night.

The world's largest agility festival is taking place at the Rutland Showground from today.

Police are investigating an incident in Wittering on Monday night, which they believe to be isolated, where a man was attacked by four people who were travelling in a vehicle he was driving.

 A protest against the proposed expansion of Leicester's boundary is taking place at lunchtime today outside County Hall in Leicester, led by Leicestershire and Rutland's Conservatives against the government and the Labour-controlled city council.

This week at the Lincolnshire Showground in the annual Poacher International Jamboree, there are over 10,700 people at the camp in total, including over 3000 volunteers and scouts and guides from 20 nations.

 A drugs dog has been visiting pubs in East Northants to identify anyone carrying illegal substances in licensed premises.

A hand cyclist from Harringworth has finished a charity ride from Land's End to John O'Groats for the Motor Neurone Disease Association and has raised £40,000 so far.

 Police in Stamford are asking for doorbell, dashcam or any mobile footage, as well as witnesses to a hit-and-run between a car and a motorbike in Stamford on Monday evening,