{"id":342598,"date":"2025-12-30T09:57:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T09:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/342598\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T09:57:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T09:57:06","slug":"ex-stamford-hotel-owner-handed-new-year-honour-for-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/342598\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Stamford hotel owner handed New Year Honour for cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Hastings was in charge of his own cricket team when he ran Lady Anne&#8217;s Hotel in Stamford, now known as The William Cecil Hotel, before he set up The R66T League with the late Fred Trueman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The league was relaunched after the Covid-19 pandemic to include more than 87 schools across four counties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It now operates in Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire, Cambridgeshire and Middlesex, with a pilot in Derbyshire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s grown and grown and grown,&#8221; Mr Hastings said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr Hastings was in charge of his own cricket team when he ran Lady Anne&#8217;s Hotel in Stamford,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-342598","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}