With the number of children needing foster care continuing to rise, a Beverley fostering agency, Orange Grove Fostercare is encouraging people to consider opening up their home to a child in care.
According to the Fostering Network, the UK’s leading fostering charity, 900 foster families are needed across Yorkshire.
MP Graham Stuart has thanked pig farmers in his constituency for their hard work to make him aware of the litany of problems facing their industry, including labour and CO2 shortages.
Across the country, the industry has been experiencing workforce shortages of approximately 10-15%, while a reduction in exports to China thanks to Covid-19 outbreaks at processing plants has compounded problems as repurposing pigs for the domestic market requires significantly more butchery.
Visit East Yorkshire are delighted to announce that a brand-new Christmas market is coming to Beverley!
Taking place from Monday 13 to Friday 17 December, ‘The Made in East Yorkshire Christmas Market’ will celebrate the very best produce that East Yorkshire’s local businesses have to offer.
Humberside Police are appealing to the public who may have dashcam footage of an incident to come forward.
Police have issued the appeal in relation to an incident that occurred on Hull Bridge Road last Saturday.
A new Spine Tingling Tales Trail is coming to Beverley for Halloween that follows the recent tales of hauntings in the town’s shops.
Desks levitating, items thrown off shelves and the sounds of footsteps. Business owners in Beverley have been speaking of unexplained happenings in their premises as part of a new interactive trail.
MP Graham Stuart has nominated the Beverley Cherry Tree Community Association for the Kids Count Inspiration Awards.
The aim of the Kids Count Inspiration Awards is to recognise those individuals and organisations that have inspired young people in their communities.
The British Army’s first photovoltaic Solar Farm has officially opened at the Defence School of Transport by the Minister for Defence Procurement, Jeremy Quin.
The farm which is the size of almost eight football pitches forms part of the British Army’s £200 million Project Prometheus investment which is designed to see the Army using renewable energy.
Hull City Council has appointed Gillian Osgerby as the Project Director to deliver a major transformation and regeneration project in the city.
Gillian will be responsible for delivering the £30.3m Hull Maritime project, funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund and Hull City Council. It involves the transformation of five key maritime treasures — Arctic Corsair, North End Shipyard, Spurn Lightship, Dock Office Chambers and the Hull Maritime Museum.
East Yorkshire based Blue Aurora Media wins ‘Best Climate Change Omni-Channel Production’ at the Media Innovator Awards 2021 for ‘The Waterline Live’ series of podcasts, webinars, videos and online resources, produced in partnership with Marketing Humber to connect The Waterline Summit with an international audience.
Business leaders and regional investors alongside an excited audience of friends and supporters of regional grant-maker Two Ridings Community Foundation, came together at Birdsall House, Malton to hear six small grassroots charities pitch at a Yorkshire version of Dragons’ Den.
Two fly-tippers have been asked to pay a joint total of £800 after waste was dumped in villages near Beverley and Market Weighton.
The streetscene enforcement team at East Riding of Yorkshire Council has recently dealt with two cases involving the illegal disposal of waste.
With the cold weather fast approaching and the cost of living ever increasing, this winter will be extremely challenging for many people in the region. If you want to help, donate to Two Ridings Community Foundation’s Surviving Winter Fund.
‘Reflections of Japan in East Yorkshire’, a unique exhibition bringing together a selection of items from private collections across East Yorkshire and artwork by Laura Boswell, opens Saturday 16 October at Beverley Art Gallery in the Treasure House.
The idea for the exhibition came about over two years ago when the Japanese Embassy introduced the ‘Japan-UK Season of Culture’, a celebration of the many facets of Japanese culture in the UK.
The CADEY Committee, accompanied by their generous funders Esh Construction and Humber Aid have made a whistle-stop tour of Beverley and Holderness to pay visits to the life-saving public access defibrillators installed over the summer.
The East Riding Festival of Words is hosting a Bestsellers Day on Saturday, 23 October at Beverley Memorial Hall.
The popular event is back for 2021 and will feature four sessions.
Beverley 1330 have confirmed a number of events that will take place to mark key historic milestones of the towns past.
Organisers hope people in the town will take the opportunity to enjoy some of the 9 events that will take place across four day period.
East Riding Libraries are encouraging residents to ‘Get reading, Get listening and Get watching’ for Get Online Week 2021, which runs from Monday, 18 to Sunday, 24 October.
During the week, there will be members of the library team on hand at sessions in Beverley and Bridlington North and on the Gilberdyke Mobile Library to help anyone to start using the huge digital library of eBooks, audiobooks, digital newspapers, magazines and streaming services available completely FREE to East Riding Library members.
In Remembrance week 2021, we honour the achievements of one of Hull’s own, Private Jack Cunningham VC, whose story of bravery in the face of the enemy has been brought back to life after the restoration of a 104-year-old piece of cinematic history.
John Cunningham, who was usually known as Jack, came from a traveller family and was the eldest son of Charles Cunningham, a licensed pot hawker and his wife Mary Ann. He had six brothers and just like his father, was a hawker.