November 2020

CPRE Rutland, the county’s countryside charity, has responded to the Covid -19 pandemic by moving its annual fund raising quiz online and quadrupling the first prize. See www.cprerutland.uk for full details. The quiz is under ‘events’. Entry is £2.50.

Uppingham resident and housing law specialist Nick Townsend has been appointed to the boards of Uppingham First and the Uppingham Homes Community Land Trust. Nick qualified as a solicitor in 1970. He then worked in private practice for a number of years mainly in his home city of Leicester where he specialised in town and

An empty shop window in Uppingham market place is to be transformed into a pop up shop display in the run up to Christmas. With the blessing of the property owner, Ashdale Pharmacy, community partnership Uppingham First is to work with Uppingham School and a number of local businesses to promote ‘shopping local’ by transforming