Prizes have been awarded to the top photos in the exhibition ‘Capturing the East Riding: Photographs from the Community’, now on view at Beverley Art Gallery until Saturday, 24 March.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council has received positive feedback from the taxi trade and people who were out celebrating over the festive season for the ‘Get Home Safe Tonight’ taxi campaign.
Judges have selected 100 entries to the Capturing the East Riding Photography Competition for exhibition at Beverley Art Gallery next year. Over 730 photographs were entered into the amateur competition and judges were impressed by the quality of the entries, noting the exceptional talent that exists in the East Riding. In addition to being shown in the exhibition, the top photos will be considered for a range of prizes, generously…
Have fun but stay safe and plan your journey’ is the message from East Riding of Yorkshire Council to party-goers ahead of the Christmas and New Year celebrations. The council is warning people to keep safe but be wary of bogus taxi drivers as they head out to celebrate over the next few weeks. As revellers enjoy the festivities in local bars and restaurants, or visit friends and family, the…
Members of the public will be able to see hundreds of local documents and go behind the scenes at the Treasure House, Beverley, at the venue’s open day on Saturday, 22 October, from 9am-4pm. The exhibition of unique historical archives will relate to the theme of creativity especially art, music and literature. People in the past were very creative and innovative, this is a great opportunity to come along and…
East Riding Libraries are leading the way towards an online nation by inviting people to ‘Spend an Hour’ on the internet during national Get Online week, Sunday, 30 October – Sunday, 6 November. ‘Spend an Hour’ is the fifth annual Get Online week campaign from UK online centres and is being delivered in partnership with Race Online and the BBC. With the clocks going back on Sunday, 30 October, everyone…
Over 60 selected contemporary artists and craftspeople living and working in Hull and the East Riding will invite you into their studios, galleries and warehouses on the weekends of 24 & 25 September in Hull; 1 & 2 October in Hull & East Riding and 8 & 9 October in East Riding for REVEAL: Hull & East Riding Open Studios 2011. There are three Beverley based artists taking part in…
This year’s Beverley Literature Festival, which takes place 6 – 16 October, is as special as ever and packed with top-quality events for readers of all tastes. Margaret Drabble will be talking about her collected short-stories; two of our foremost crime-thriller writers, Val McDermid and Mark Billingham, will share a platform with best-selling thriller writer Tom Rob Smith; and Jon Ronson, who has done so much to reveal the stranger…
Anyone with a passion for the East Riding and for photography is reminded that if they wish to enter the Capturing the East Riding Photography Competition they have just four weeks left to submit their entries. The deadline for this amateur contest is Friday, 30 September, after which entries will be judged and the winners entered into an East Riding-wide competition, culminating in an exhibition at the Beverley Art Gallery…
A man from Beverley will be sentenced at Hull Crown Court next month after admitting defrauding the public of at least £300,000 in a period from October 2009 to January 2011. Appearing at Beverley Magistrates Court on 10 August 2011, Lee Dennis Noble of Wray Close, Beverley, who operated a quad bike and vehicle repair business in Cottingham, pleaded guilty to seven offences brought by East Riding of Yorkshire Council…
Beverley Beck has a special place in the hearts of people in the town. Many ‘becksiders’ remember the beck as a working waterway and the connections their families had to local industry, while others value it as a unique place to live and be outdoors. Since 2004, East Riding of Yorkshire Council has made a significant investment to improve the beck’s navigability and create a pleasant destination for residents and…
Residents facing crippling fuel bills to heat their homes and provide them with hot water can have confidence that they are getting the correct measurements of fuel that they have paid for as East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s Trading Standards Service launches its new fuel initiative. Over the past year the cost of nearly all forms of energy having risen by an average of 15 per cent and in a…
East Riding councillors Jane Evison and Jonathan Owen (East Wolds and Coastal) recently met with Greg Knight MP (East Yorkshire) a representative from KC and council representatives to continue to progress their campaign regarding the lack of investment in a reliable broadband service across the area. People in the East Riding who get poor broadband access or no service at all are at a big disadvantage in many aspects of…
Business owners and their staff from East Riding salons are celebrating after winning in the hairdressing, beauty and barbering categories at Habia’s National UK Health and Safety Awards in London – for the second year running. To celebrate their achievement representatives from Spirit, Pocklington; Indulgence, Howden; Toffs Barbers, Goole- all 2010/11 winners and Tim’s Hairdressing, Beverley; Joanne Mahoney Salon, Howden; and Totally Faces, Kirkella the UK’s 2009/10 winners, were invited…
Party-goers looking forward to New Year are being advised to make sure they stay safe at the end of the night. East Riding of Yorkshire Council is warning people to be wary of bogus taxi drivers. The council hopes that those celebrating by going out will have fun, but advises that planning beforehand can help to keep people safe. Each year during the festive season the council’s licensing team receives…
Fiction, politics, geology, poetry, biography and lots of workshops to get involved with – Beverley Literature Festival (1 to 10 October), organised by East Riding Libraries, once again brings you the best in writing, whatever the subject. This year the festival has expanded its programme for children to give young readers in the East Riding a fun-packed weekend of performances, readings, making sessions and story-telling of all kinds – all…
If you or your group would like to participate in a major competition for amateur photographers, the East Riding Cultural Partnership has the perfect opportunity for you. The Cultural Partnership is working with local people to organise contests as part of the ‘Capturing the East Riding’ photography competition. Starting in October, contests will run until September 2011, when groups will select their top entries. Local winners will then be entered…
Swimmers at East Riding Leisure Centres raised more than £10,000 for charity when they took part in Swimathon 2010. The total figure raised by 136 swimmers at five East Riding pools has now been calculated at £10,338.74 Money raised by those taking part in the East Riding forms part of £2m raised across the UK which goes to the Swimathon Foundation and Marie Curie Cancer Care. Councillor Jane Evison, portfolio…