Rutland Water is also the first in England to have both a blue and green flag A beach at a reservoir has become the first inland water to be awarded a blue flag in England. Keep Britain Tidy has ...

Sykes Lane Bathing Beach and Whitwell Creek at Rutland Water, and a section of the River Deben at Waldringfield, Suffolk, will also be officially designated ahead of the 2023 bathing water season.

The skeleton of the ichthyosaur - an ocean-going reptile from the time of the dinosaurs - was found at Rutland Water in 2021. The 33ft (10m) long ichthyosaur fossil, which is about 180 million ...