Tabatha’s Celebrates A Year In Business

November 19, 2011

Local home and giftware shop Tabatha’s on Well Lane is celebrating its first birthday this Saturday, 19th November, with bands, champagne and cupcakes for visitors to enjoy. Tabatha’s has enjoyed a very successful first year, offering high quality gifts that wont break the bank. Owner Samantha Waud could not let the occasion to go unmarked and wishes to celebrate with regular customers and to welcome those who are yet to…

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Think Your Sunday Morning Bike Rides Are a Challenge? Take a Look at This

November 16, 2011

Local man Paul Deadman is undertaking a ten day, 400km, cycle in searing heats and humidity from Vietnam to Cambodia in January 2012.  In addition Paul has not ridden a bike for many years and is training intensely. Why? As well as the personal challenge Paul is raising awareness for the Brittle Bone Society, an organisation close to his heart as his step daughter has this Brittle Bone condition and…

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Beverley Minster Christmas Tree Festival 2011

October 28, 2011

The Beverley Minster is to put on quite a display during their Christmas tree festival on the 9th, 10th and 11th December. The festival will display over fifty trees which are sponsored by local businesses and public figures such as Specsavers, the East Riding of Yorkshire Council and the Mayor of Beverley. The trees will be decorated either by the sponsors themselves or by local community groups who have been…

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Rock N Roll With Jump N Jive

October 28, 2011

Rock N Roll night returns this Friday, 28th October, at Armstrongs Social Club with West Yorkshire band Jump N Jive. The four piece band play drums, guitar and double bass and are very popular with lovers of this music genre and have many supporters who travel to the club to see them perform. Warm up the hour before the band perform with a Jive and Rock N Roll dance lesson…

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De Lacy Spa Celebrate First Birthday

October 27, 2011

De Lacy Spa celebrated its first birthday this week with its customers. After a successful first year the team threw a birthday party complete with Bucks Fizz, canapés and cupcakes for over thirty of their customers. Staff carried out demonstrations of some of the treatments they offer, including gel nails, reflexology and hair styling. Party guests received a goodie bag  of beauty products with their ticket and there was a…

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Beavers Players Craig Hancock & Sam Atiola Take Rugby Into School

October 27, 2011

Beverley Grammar School has enjoyed a week with year 7 parents as they were invited to see, and take part in, what the boys do at the school. Parents joined all lessons from maths to P.E. and some had to admit they were shown up by the boys, one parent commented that during a maths lesson they ‘sat at the back of the class and was very embarrassed at how…

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New Head ‘Bakes-a-Difference.’

October 21, 2011

Walkington Primary School today departed from traditional harvest celebrations and supported the nationwide ‘Bake-a-Difference’ campaign organised by Concern Worldwide. Instead of the usual donation of harvest fruits and vegetables, the children were busy baking buns at home – with a bit of help from Mum!- to help raise money for the charity whose aim is to raise at least £100,000 across the country to help combat the devastation caused by…

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Hull City Defender Jack Hobbs Visits St Nicholas School

October 21, 2011

Jack Hobbs, newly signed as a Hull City defender for three years, visited St Nicholas school this Tuesday to present new football kits to the boys and girls football teams. The kits were bought by the Friends of St Nicholas school who fundraised over £500 for them. A special assembly was held in which Jack presented the kits to the team representatives; Louis Hatch yr. 3, Matthew Armstrong-Rice  yr. 4,…

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Local Lads Reach Top Ten In Pizza Express Music Competition

October 20, 2011

Two local boys have made it down to the top ten of the Pizza Express competition ‘The Big Audition’ with Jamie Cullum. Billy Gill and Fin Henderson, both 15, make up Palms13 a ‘jazzy-pop’ band. The boys applied for the competition and submitted a youtube video of themselves, competing with over 7500 others they made it down to the top 50 and with votes from fans and school friends are…

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Local Firm Backs Badminton Star

October 13, 2011

Hull man Carl Sadler is to head to Korea later this month to play in the World Deaf Badminton Championships sponsored by local company Cumberland Comms Ltd. Carl has been playing the sport since the age of 12 and started for Great Britain in 1996. Since then his achievements have been numerous, including gold in men’s doubles in Switzerland 2002, a silver medal in the world games in Denmark 1997…

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Beverley Blues Festival Debuts At Sun Inn

October 7, 2011

The first ever Beverley Blues Festival kicks off at The Sun Inn on the 21st October. The weekend long festival will showcase blues music, from acoustic to rock and the line up is brimming with exciting acts including, among others, the Alligators, the Steve Fulsham Band and Stikkyfingers. The festival was thought up by a group of music lovers and so has no admission charge. However proceeds from the weekend…

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World’s Biggest Coffee Morning @ Beverley Grammar School

October 4, 2011

Students from Beverley Grammar School today held a coffee morning in aid of Cancer Research. The year 10 students arranged the Macmillan ‘World’s Biggest Coffee Morning’ event, with the help of their teacher Rebecca Coe. The coffee morning proved to be a success with staff and pupils queuing to buy the wide variety of cakes, biscuits, hot and cold drinks which students and teachers donated and baked themselves. All the…

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The Cupcake Club Support Help For Heroes

October 1, 2011

The Cupcake Club was formed in September 2010 by two local tattoo artists. During a quiet spell at a convention they came up with the idea of tattooing small cupcakes for twenty pounds in aid of Help for Heroes. The idea has grown significantly, starting in Beverley and Richmond studios and growing by word of mouth to a studio in Scunthorpe and Spalding. The public interest in the Cupcake Club…

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MP Visits Bartoline & Hodgson Sealants

September 30, 2011

Local MP Graham Stuart has met with manufacturers in his constituency. Graham Stuart first visited Bartoline, a leading solvent manufacturer in the UK which suffered a major fire in their Beverley factory in 2003. Bartoline has been nominated by Graham Stuart for the ‘Made in Britain’ campaign, set up to celebrate the best of British manufacturing. Graham went on to visit Hodgson Sealants Limited and was met by Charles Hodgson…

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Dane Bowers Visits DST

September 30, 2011

On Friday 30 September 2011, singer, DJ and star of Big Brother, Dane Bowers visited the Defence School of Transport, Normandy Barracks Leconfield. Dane visited DST to do a radio interview on Garrison FM 87.7 FM to promote ‘Eclipse’, a mixed martial arts event that will be taking place on 29 October 2011 in the spectacular surroundings of the Hull Ice Arena. The evening boasts an exciting 14 bout fight…

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