A great success for De Lacy Spa with their very own Christmas market. Stalls with local businesses had the comfort of the warmth of the salon on such a cold day with a mixture of soap/bath bombsDe Lacy Spa Christmas Market A Great Success > Read the fu...
I have had a mixture of work and play since my last blog. I had another trip to the races with Amy, when we went to Newbury for an afternoon of racing followed by a Jessie J concert in the ...
Renowned for their Ancient Roman events at Sewerby Hall and Gardens, newar Bridlington, Comitatus bring a brand new historical re-enactment to the venue on Sunday, 17 June to help celebrate the Olympics. Comitatus re-creates classical antiquity from the glory that was Greece to the grandeur that was Rome. Their aim is to bring something of the culture of the ancient Greeks to the shows, concentrating on the later 5th century and 4th century BC. The professional performances use a mixture of Greek sporting and military displays, which are exciting and educational. Recreating equestrian skills from the past means the society is the only organisation in the world able to field ancient Greek cavalrymen, riding in the correct equipment without saddles or stirrups. As ever, the reconstructed artefacts are of the highest standard and are not just for show – but for actual use. The equipment of the society is recreated by its members using modern tools, but using accurate materials and copying actual archaeological finds. Their attention to detail is such that the group carries out a valuable form of experimental archaeology. Members have lectured to a range of groups, including to the late Antique Archaeology Conference at the Ashmoleam…
A major road resurfacing scheme will start on the A166, from Stamford Bridge to Full Sutton Junction, on Monday, 16 April, as part of the council’s capital programme of maintenance works for 2012-13. The works are estimated to last for five weeks and will include a mixture of day-time and night-time shifts. The existing carriageway surface will be recycled and incorporated into the new carriageway, making the scheme cost-effective and reducing the impact on the environment. To keep disruption as minimal as possible, it has been agreed that, between 7pm-7am, the A166 will be closed to through traffic between Stamford Bridge and Full Sutton Junction, with traffic diverted via A1079-Shiptonthorpe Roundabout to the A614 Bainton to Driffield. Day-time work to lay the final surface course and install road markings and road studs will take place simultaneously with the night-time works but with a convoying system in operation to limit vehicle speeds through the site to 10mph, allowing local traffic access trough the site. The A166 will remain signed as closed to non-local traffic with the diversion route remaining in operation throughout the day. Nigel Leighton, director of environment and neighbourhood services at East Riding of Yorkshire Council, said: “The council…
The Beverley Roundtable met at the Rose & Crown this week where they welcomed new ‘younger ‘ members and got a new chairman.Beverley Roundtable Get New Chairman > Read the full post on: HU17.net
AJ Taft, author of ‘Our Father Who Art Out There…Somewhere’ a novel inspired by her own search for a father who left home on the day she was born will be at the Hull branch of Waterstones on Sat 3rd March from 11am as part of a tour of Yorkshire towns. “My father run off the day I was born. I grew up with a sense that something was missing and a deep desire to find out who my father was.” Alison said. In her mid thirties, Author, Alison decided to use a family tracing service to track down her father. They replied saying that although they had managed to contact him, he had written to say he had no wish to be contacted. Frustrated by his response Alison put pen to paper to write about her feelings but soon a novel grew from the pages. ’Our Father Who Art Out There…Somewhere’ explores what happens when Lily Appleyard goes off in search of her father and rejected, plots a plan of revenge which includes kidnapping a half-sister she never knew she had. Alison’s novel takes a blackly humorous look at the situation but she knows that for many the the…
POLICE are appealing for witnesses to an isolated incident which is believed to have happened in Scunthorpe, resulting in a further incident taking place in Goole, during the early hours of Tuesday 14 February 2012. Officers in Scunthorpe attended an incident on Frodingham Road, Scunthorpe and a further incident on Old Brumby Street, Scunthorpe where a verbal and physical altercation is believed to have taken place between a large number of men. Following these incidents, at around 0233hrs a further physical altercation is believed to have taken place, again involving a large number of men, resulting in damage being caused to a takeaway on Swinefleet Road, Goole. A man is then believed to have then been ran over and two other men sustained leg injuries, close to the takeaway. The offending vehicle is then believed to have driven away from the scene at speed. As a result of the three incidents, a number of people were taken to Scunthorpe General Hospital, Goole General Hospital and Doncaster Royal Infirmary for treatment, some of them have been released. The people taken to hospital were treated for a mixture of non life threatening and serious injuries. Officers investigating the incident have arrested a…
