Basketball For Girls Comes to Beverley

November 11, 2010

Girls Only Basketball Sessions are to be held at Beverley Leisure Centre on Saturdays 2 – 3.30pm, beginning 13th November. The club will continue to run on Saturdays 20th & 27th November and 4th December and then into the New Year. Sessions cost £2 per person. The sessions are aimed at girls in the local area who have an interest in playing basketball and who would like to be involved…

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Beverley Christmas Lights Switch On 2010

Follow Bertie Beaver and the Beverley Church Lads & Girls Brigade Band to help a local celebrity light the trees at Cross Street, Wednesday Market and then to Angel Square where Beverley Brass Band and the CLB will be playing for Community Carol Singing with School Choirs and the Beverley Male Voice Choir and the Chamber of Trade will be giving out prizes for their Children’s Competition. Beverley Town Council,…

November 11, 2010
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Riverview Proud to Sponsor Beverley’s Premier Football Team

November 11, 2010

The owners of Groundtech Landscaping, Darren and Vicky Hart, have recently acquired the health club “Riverview Health & Fitness”. Since taking over Riverview on the 1st March 2010 they have met several members of Beverley Town Football Club, including the chairman Stuart Acaster. The football club currently trains at Riverview. Darren and Vicky thought it was appropriate that Riverview sponsored the club as a local business supporting a local team….

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Conversion of Exchange recognised in National Awards Scheme

The work of the council’s Building Control service has been recognised in a national awards scheme. The former Corn Exchange in Beverley’s Saturday Market, which was converted by a local businessman into Browns department store, has won the ‘highly commended’ award (best small commercial building category) in this year’s LABC National Building Excellence Awards. LABC is the member organisation representing local authority building control departments.  Unlike other industry awards, the…

November 11, 2010
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Strawberry and Clients Go Pink to Raise Money for Breast Cancer Campaign

November 11, 2010

Strawberry, one of East Yorkshire’s leading marketing and design agencies, is celebrating the success of its recent fund raising drive in support of breast cancer research. Strawberry, along with six of its clients including Gosschalks Solicitors, MKM, Dee, Atkinson & Harrison, Green Planet Solutions, Abbey Medical Group and BSC Solutions, gave its website a bright pink make over and raised over £1,400 for Breast Cancer Campaign’s: Wear it Pink Day…

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Local Man Receives National Recognition

November 10, 2010

The Mayor of Beverley  Councillor Bessie Foot came to the Beverley Life Saving Club weekly club meet to present a trophy to Robin Scott a senior teacher at the Club. The Stanley Peck Trophy is  awarded  by the R.L.S.S. UK to a member who has done most to achieve the aims of the Royal Life Saving Society in their local area. Robin should have received this from Lord Norrie at…

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Angels Take Action and Use Initiative

November 10, 2010

Volunteers at the Beverley-based CSV East Riding project are celebrating the good news that they were hoping for. They have received feedback from the British Council giving them a strong indication that their application for almost 10 thousand euro will be accepted and official confirmation received in January. This core group are heading out east to Bridlington to develop this European Commission funded Youth in Action project with other young…

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And Now For Some Hypnotic Inspiration

November 10, 2010

Sheila Granger is an inspiring woman to be around.  In two short years she has taken a hobby which ran alongside her employment with the Department of Work and Pensions to a hugely successful clinical hypnotherapy business that has seen her succeed on an international scale. Her accomplishments have been no mean feat, and although Sheila herself will say that “anyone can do what I have done”, it certainly takes…

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21st Century Law Firm Brings Changes to Beverley

November 10, 2010

Quality Solicitors Lockings in Beverley welcomes Paul Kirby, Partner and solicitor from the Hull Head Office. Specialising in family law, Paul is now expanding the services previously available which mainly involved property and business transfers. Paul Kirby comments: “I am delighted to move to Beverley, it is a wonderful town and I am keen to drive forward the changes and make our firm the number one choice for advice on…

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Traditional and Unexpected Feel to East Riding Company Theatre Tour

Beverley-based actors Neil King and Richard Avery say the tradition of telling ghost stories on Christmas Eve is the inspiration behind their latest touring production, which is launched later this month in the East Riding (Friday 19 November). The duo, who run Other Lives Productions, have toured for the last three years with a first half of semi-dramatised readings around a theme, followed by a second half featuring a new…

November 10, 2010
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Safer Roads Humber A1079 Roundabout

November 10, 2010

Safer Roads Humber has been working closely with East Riding of Yorkshire Council and the contractors installing a new roundabout on the Beverley section of the A1079 to ensure safety during the road works. The roundabout forms part of a new access route for Swift Caravans which have funded all the works. Once this new access is operational it will relieve Cottingham of all traffic associated with Swift Caravans. The…

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Robbery, Tesco’s Car Park, Beverley

November 9, 2010

POLICE are appealing for witnesses following an alleged robbery in Tesco’s car park in Beverley. At 1421hrs on Thursday 28 October 2010 it is alleged as a 37-year-old man was leaving his parked white Vauxhall Caddy hire van (about 100 yards away from the recycling bottle bins) in the Tesco’s supermarket car park on Morton Lane in Beverley, his vehicle was approached. The suspect, described as being a white man,…

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Visiting Your Dentist Could Save Your Life

November 9, 2010

Perfect 32 is helping to raise awareness of Mouth Cancer Action Month in East Yorkshire by offering FREE MOUTH CANCER SCREENING on Monday, November 29 running from 8am – 7pm using an advanced oral cancer screening system called The Velscope. The practice will also be giving away specially designed information packs highlighting the warning signs and prevention of mouth cancer. In the UK mouth cancer is diagnosed in more than…

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HU17.net Magazine Issue 18

November 8, 2010

Hu17.net Magazine issue 18 is available from Woodhall Way Post Office. This weeks issue features the following events and sporting fixtures that have happened this week in Beverley. The centre page is given over the Beverley Town FC with a large full colour poster. Inside this week Beverley Lions Bonfire Beverley Town CC Presentation Night Out & About – Khans & The Royal Standard Fashion Show @ The Conservative Club…

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Beverley Lions Bonfire Night 2010: Fireworks & People

November 6, 2010

Thousands turned up for the annual Beverley Lions Bonfire and Fireworks Display on the Westwood. The bonfire was lit at 7.15 by Mayor of Beverley Bessie Foot and Beverley Lions Chairman Paul James.  The crowd were then treated to a fantastic firework show that was described by Lion Bill Rice as the “best ever”. HU17.net Picture Gallery: Click on the thumbnail picture below to enlarge the image to full size…

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More People to be Caught in Inheritance Tax Trap

The number of people caught in the Inheritance Tax “trap” is set to rise over the next four years.  The Government has fixed the level below which no tax is paid – an effective tax rise when inflation is taken into account. Currently, any individual with an estate worth more than £325,000, or a couple whose estate is worth £650,000 will pay a huge 40% tax on the excess.  The…

November 5, 2010
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Ever wanted to be on TV?

November 5, 2010

Well here’s your chance. Humber TV is looking for Sirens!!! What is a Siren? Well, Humber TV is looking for women to be on the panel of the show “Sirens of the North” which is aired every Wednesday night, 6.30-7.30. The Sirens of the North show discusses the events and issues that affect us all but in a way that is accessible and entertaining, think Loose Women but with Northern…

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‘The Atlantics’ Bring Rock n Roll to Etton

November 5, 2010

North Devon based rock n roll band ‘The Atlantics’ are bringing their rock n roll party to Etton on Friday November 12th at 7.30 pm as part of the ArtERY rural touring scheme to village halls.   They bring songs from the likes of Bill Haley, Fats Domino, Chuck Berry and Big Joe Turner as well as their own tracks.  It is a high energy mix of 1950s style jump jive…

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