It is said to be the greatest of England's Elizabethan houses and as you might expect, Burghley House in Lincolnshire has a history that's as spectacular as its appearance.
The secret side of the stately home in Stamford is being revealed by none other than Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes in a new programme on ITV tonight. Lisa Adlam has been taking a look.
Lincolnshire Police have released footage of the moment £20,000 worth of jewellery was stolen in Stamford. It happened in August, but officers have now made the CCTV images public in the hope of finding the robbers.
Lincolnshire County Council have been criticised after workmen painted double yellow lines on the streets in Stamford which failed to stick. The paint ran into the cracks of the cobblestones in the picturesque market town leaving an unsightly mess.
It is the second time the County Council have come under fire over the painting of the double yellow lines which they were forced to remove last month as they were not deemed to be straight.
Stamford's Christmas Festival is taking place today. It is the fourth year that the event has run and 20,000 visitors are expected to attend. 200 traders and exhibitors will be showing off their wares. This year the Festival will have a 1950s theme to mark the Jubilee year.
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Broadband users in a Lincolnshire road suffer a download speed 500 times slower than those in a street enjoying the UK's fastest speed, a study has found.
Cromarty Road in Stamford, Lincolnshire, has an average speed of 0.132Mbps, while Willowfield, in Telford and Wrekin, has registered speeds of 70.9Mbps over the past six months, uSwitch.com found.
Lincolnshire has three of the top 10 slowest streets for broadband in the country with speeds around 37 times slower than the national average of 9Mbps, the survey revealed.
According to the study, it would take Cromarty Road residents 25 hours and 15 minutes to download a two hour film, and one hour and 41 minutes to download an album.
Police are appealing for information on the man pictured in connection with an incident of sexual touching in Stamford.
This incident took place at around 5.15pm on September 3 at the Bus Station in St Peter’s Hill, Stamford. A man approached a 15-year-old girl and touched her inappropriately. Police are keen to talk to the man pictured in connection with the incident.
Anyone who has any information can contact DC Sarah Edwards via the 101 non emergency number, quoting incident number 342 of September 3, or independent charity Crimestoppers anonymously on: 0800 555 111.
The inventor of what he hopes is the world's fastest pram will go for a world record today.
Colin Furze, from Lincolnshire, built a ten horse power pram which can get up to 48 miles an hour.
The girlfriend of an inventor from Stamford says she won't be swapping her regular pram for his high-speed version for transporting their one month old son Jake.
Charlotte Stapling is used to watching her 33 year old boyfriend Colin Furze create mad-cap contraptions. He already holds the world record for the fastest mobility scooter. But she says she doesn't fancy testing out his new 50mph pram just yet.
This weekend Colin Furze will be taking his specially adapted motorised pram to try to break the world record for the world's fastest pram. To succeed he will need to reach 30mph but the inventor from Stamford hopes his creation will actually reach speeds of more than 50mph.
A man from Stamford in Lincolnshire is hoping his new motorised pram will become a record breaker this weekend. Colin Furze has fitted the specially built pram with an engine, complete with four gears. He hopes it will be able to go at more than 30 miles an hour this weekend.
The 33 year old has spent four weeks putting together the pram with a 125cc motorbike engine hidden between the wheels. He stands on a platform behind it and uses accelerator and brake levers to control the speed though admits it's not safe enough for his one month old son Jake to travel in.