Back after a hugely successful concert in 2019, there will be a chance to join Grammy-nominated and RPS award-winning orchestra Sinfonia Viva for a Viennese Gala event full of style, glitz and glamour for the ultimate feelgood start to 2020.
Sinfonia Viva will present a Viennese Gala on Sunday, 12 January 2020 at Bridlington Spa at 2pm.
Brand new digital information screens have been installed for passengers at bus stations in Beverley and Bridlington.
The four new timetable display screens have been introduced by East Riding of Yorkshire Council to replace the old, outdated signs at both bus stations.
Bridlington Spa is once again hosting ArtWaves Festival for its sixth consecutive year in May 2020. The popular ArtWaves Fringe will begin on Monday 25 May culminating in a weekend of festival activity on Saturday 30 and Sunday 31 May.
ArtWaves will showcase a mix of traditional, digital, contemporary and urban art in a programme which has been thoughtfully considered, both for those artists with existing experience and those budding artists wanting to try a new experience.
Residents in the East Riding are being urged not to put batteries or power banks in their bins – after one of them sparked a fire in a bin lorry.
One of East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s bin collection crews was forced to tackle a fire after black smoke started billowing from the back of their truck while they were working in Bridlington.
After a week of torrential rain, Hull Ionians were able to put on their festival albeit having to use all the space they had to ensure that matches could take place, closing off the lowest-lying pitches at the far end of the ground due to standing water.
Beverley U11’s turned up with a full-strength squad of 11 for the 9-a-side matches. After the changes to the layout due to the waterlogging, pitches were made smaller and teams played 7-a-side matches which impacted on the way the games played out.
Families and Early Years Foundation Stage groups can now take part in the Creative Families Award at any museum run by East Riding Museums.
Little creatives aged between one and four can take part in the Award during their visit to the museum, which could be Sewerby Hall and Gardens, Goole Museum, Skidby Mill, Beverley Guildhall, or also the Treasure House in Beverley.
The East Riding Festival of Words 2019 has been declared a big success, both by audiences and the authors involved.
The festival took place in various locations across the East Riding between 15 and 20 October and featured a wide range of authors discussing murder, belonging and a great deal more besides.
David T. Wade has been appointed as Legal Director to the Hull-based Humber Taxi Association (HTA).
The HTA provides training, administrative and legal support to private hire and black cab taxi drivers across the Humber region, including Bridlington, Goole, Hull and Scunthorpe.
East Riding of Yorkshire CCG is delighted that local GP Dr Tom Milligan won the Clinician of the Year Award 2019 at an impressive dinner ceremony at the National Association of Primary Care (NAPC) annual conference in Birmingham.
The award recognises an outstanding clinician, a leader who is an inspiration to others, a person who demonstrates compassion and empathy, an achiever of change in their community.
Local Liberal Democrats have highlighted figures showing the cuts in real terms experienced by local Schools in the East Riding.
Between 2015 and 2019 , schools in the East Riding lost out on £21.8 million equivalent to -£166 per pupil.
Writer and historian John Heywood will be at Bridlington Central Library on Monday, 14 October from 2pm – 4pm to talk about his book, ‘Beside the Seaside’, a history of Yorkshire’s seaside resorts.
The afternoon will be a tour down Yorkshire’s beautiful East Coast and through history.
A new walking football session – arranged in partnership between East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s sports and play service, Driffield EI AFC and East Riding Leisure Driffield – will take place from October.
The sessions will run every Thursday for 10 weeks, starting from Thursday, 10 October between 7.30-8.30pm at East Riding Leisure Driffield on Bridlington Road, Driffield.
The flourishing local Walking for Health scheme is expanding and has just launched a new 30-minute walk in Bridlington.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council runs a programme of health walks aimed mainly at people who take little or no exercise. It is part of the national Walking for Health initiative and offers led walks for beginners.
On National Poetry Day, Thursday 3 October, Bridlington Central Library in King Street will be throwing open its doors to any poets in the area.
The public is being invited to bring any books in, read their own poetry or their favourite poetry, or simply enjoy sitting and listening to poetry.
Popular author Christy Lefteri will be coming to Beverley Art Gallery on Friday, 18 October, at 7pm.
Shew will be there as part of the East Riding Festival of Words While there she will talk about her bestselling work, The Beekeeper of Aleppo.
Motorists in the East Riding are being advised to check before they travel as there will be a number of temporary road closures ahead of the Yorkshire 2019 Para-Cycling International later this month.
On Saturday, 21 September, some of the world’s top para-cyclists will be taking part in the race, which for the first time is taking place alongside the UCI Road World Championships.
A £2.7million scheme to improve East Riding roads and help protect them against potholes has now been completed for 2019.
As part of its annual surface dressing programme, East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s highways maintenance team carried out work at 190 sites across the area during the spring and summer months.
East Riding College’s new level 2 marketing and events management full-time study programme starts this September, with it already proving incredibly popular.
The course is the first step towards a career in wedding planning, organising fashion shows, music events, promotions, sporting events, product launches and all manner of other marketing and promotional events.