The junctions of Beverley and Station Road and Beverley and Fountain Road will undergo essential maintenance works from Monday 22 – Friday 26 October.
A full road closure of the outbound lane at the junction of Beverley Road and Fountain Road will be in place for the duration of the works.
Trinity Market and Hepworth Arcade have been shortlisted in this year’s prestigious Great British High Street (GBHS) Awards in the Champion High Street category.
The category features the best high streets in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Hull City Council has been successful in securing a confirmed £281,100 National Lottery grant to fully restore the Guildhall Greenwich Time Ball.
Dating back to 1918, Hull’s Guildhall Greenwich Time Ball is the only such timepiece on a municipal building and one of only a few nationally. It reflects the importance of maritime timekeeping, the link with navigation and the need to fix longitude from the John Harrison period (1720s) to the present.
Plans to increase capacity at Middleton on the Wolds based chicken specialist Soanes Poultry will result in 15 new jobs.
The £1.6million poultry factory extension project will increase capacity by 20% from June 2019 and will create employment in the sales and marketing, processing and distribution departments.
Humberside Police have executed a successful drugs raid. As a result of the raid a large number of cannabis plants in East Yorkshire.
Police say the action was taken following a tip-off from members of the public who noticed the smell.
The RICS Hull and East Yorkshire Local Member Group has joined forces with both Gosschalks and Proctors to host a seminar on energy efficiency in commercial buildings. The event is on Tuesday 6 November at Gosschalks in Queens Gardens, Hull.
Gosschalks’ Head of Property and Real Estate, Mark Teal has worked in this area for over twenty years and specialises in general commercial property and development work. He will cover the following items: excuses, exemptions and exceptions.
Humberside Police have arrested a man and woman in Bridlington for dealing heroin. Acting on information supplied by the public, police raided two properties.
Police simultaneously raided properties on Haslemere Avenue and Albion Terrace, after being tipped off by the public.
To coincide with World Mental Health Day on Wednesday 10 October, some of Hull’s secondary schools will launch Talking Tables, a Public Health initiative to encourage people to strike up a conversation.
Public Health launched Talking Tables on Monday 10 September to mark World Suicide Day. Now, as part of HeadStart Hull’s young people’s peer mentoring project run by Cornerhouse Yorkshire, pupils within the city’s schools are being encouraged to talk to combat isolation in schools across lunchtimes and other times.
Humberside Police are appealing for help after a lady who was having an epileptic fit assaulted and robbed her.
The incident, which took place at around 6 pm on 3 October on Linnaeus Street left the victim needing hospital treatment.
Work to restore the historic archway in Pearson Park is due to commence next month.
The archway is the first part of a £3m restoration project in the west Hull park following a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Property firm, Iguana Developments is launching their next development at Liberty House which includes twenty-five high spec, high tech apartments for sale in the Old Town of Hull.
Local buyers are being given the first opportunity to view Liberty House which includes one, two and three bedroom apartments, designed for young professionals and people who want to enjoy the ease of city life.
A team dedicated to tackling poor waste standards in hot-spot areas of Hull will be out on the streets talking to residents about their environmental concerns.
Four highly-visible environmental improvement officers will be visiting residents and carrying out community surveys to understand what issues affect different areas of the city.
Five young entrepreneurial ambassadors have been recruited by Hull City Council to encourage others to develop enterprising ideas.
The five have been brought in by the authority’s Youth Enterprise Section to promote the Making Changes for Careers (MC4C) programme, which offers enterprise skills training and business support services to Hull young people who are not in full-time employment or training.
An LGBTQ anti-hate crime project which has involved schools and communities across the East Riding was celebrated at an event in Beverley attended by a Home Office minister.
The Right to Be project is an initiative led by children’s charity Barnardo’s in partnership with East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s youth and family support service, following a £48,000 award of funding from the Home Office Hate Crime Community Projects fund.
North Bridlington Library will be hosting ‘The Next Big Thing’ on Friday, 19 October, as part of the East Riding Festival of Words.
Debut authors, hotly tipped to become the bestsellers of tomorrow, will all be at the library that afternoon and evening, offering a chance for visitors to explore the best new literature on the market, with tickets from just £5 each.
Hull’s economic growth is ahead of rates seen across the UK, according to official figures released.
In the past two years, Hull’s economic output – currently valued at £5.6 billion – has seen growth at levels beyond the national average, data released by the Office for National Statistics shows.
A new joint venture for local sports training provider, Sportsability will help the company stake its claim in the burgeoning fitness industry, with use of the gym and facilities for its learners at Cottingham Parks.
The move aims to enhance the courses for fitness instructing and personal training, through the Active IQ qualifications Sportsability provides.
A huge 5k run featuring some of the world’s biggest inflatable obstacles is heading to Hull for the first time this weekend – and it’s all down to social media users from the city.
Gung-Ho! has toured the UK with its huge inflatable obstacle for four years, with more than 120,000 people taking part along the way.