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The East Riding Festival of Words will focus on Location, Location, Location on Sunday, 21 October, with a series of events at Beverley Art Gallery.
The day will be a chance to explore the allure of houses in literature – where would our favourite novels be without those idyllic cottages overlooking the sea?
East Riding Leisure is celebrating National Customer Service Week next week, giving an opportunity for customers to get to know their local leisure centre team better.
Several of the ten leisure centres across the East Riding will be holding customer forums during National Customer Service Week, including managers’ surgeries, and a range of events including opportunities to meet the staff.
The historic market town of Beverley has been confirmed as the start location for the very first day of competition of the Yorkshire 2019 UCI Road World Championships.
The route and schedule for next year’s event was announced today (Wednesday, 26 September) in Innsbruck, Austria, where the 2018 championships are drawing to a close.
A fashion show being organised by the Beverley Christmas Lights Appeal will be held next month with those behind the event saying they are hoping for a full house.
Taking place on 16 October, the Fashion Show will return to its spiritual home, The Beverley Memorial Hall, almost 5 years since the show was last held there.
A high end retailer could be on their way to Beverley taking on a prime retail unit that has sat empty for a number of years after being vacated by Wilko.
While the retailer in question has not confirmed they are indeed about to open in the historic market town, information received by HU17.net would appear they are.
East Riding Libraries now offer Games Groups – a chance to enjoy a wide range of games and meet new people.
Eleven libraries across the area have been provided with a Scrabble set and a games compendium with equipment and instructions for 30 games, including chess, draughts, ludo, snakes and ladders, Yahtzee, a pack of cards, dice and dice cup, dominoes, and Halma.
HU17.net Magazine Issue 415 is out and available to purchase from Molescroft News on Woodhall Way.
This week’s issue features a selection of content that has appeared on he HU17 Web Site.
As part of Classically Yours, Alice is off on her adventures again, this time through her mirror into the whimsical Looking-Glass Land where words are backwards, time flies and eggs can talk!
The concert will be a chance to join an ensemble of Britten Sinfonia players on an interactive musical journey for the whole family.
The Beverley Westwood Lions Club is busy organising the Bonfire and Fireworks annual display to be held on Monday, 5th November on the Beverley Westwood Common.
President of the Lions Club, Alan Blenkharn, with the assistance from the Mayor, Cllr Bryan Pearson will have the honnour of lighting the bonfire to get the event officially underway.
All Year 11 students who live in Beverley and beyond are warmly invited to Longcroft School’s 2018 Sixth Form Information Evening on Thursday 27 September. The evening starts with a presentation at 6pm in the Longcroft Theatre.
It is that time of year again, when GCSE students in Year 11 begin to consider their options for further study. This event is a good opportunity to find out what Longcroft Sixth Form has to offer and talk to individual Subject Teachers.
Local authors will be featured heavily in the East Riding Festival of Words – the new look literature festival coming to the area in October.
The festival will be officially launched by Val Wood at Beverley Art Gallery on Thursday, 18 October, at 7.30pm. Val will be giving an exclusive reading of her latest novel, ‘A Place to Call Home’, which will be published in November.
Tesco Beverley say they are pleased to be working with the East Yorkshire Foodbank, Beverley Cherry Tree Community Centre and Leven Charity Pre-school in their Community Food Connection Programme.
The supermarket giants are now using technology to link local groups with in store systems say they can be alerted to and food waste.
Beverley’s Conservative teams for St Mary’s and Minster Wards have taken up residents’ concerns over the capacity of the town’s schools to accommodate the growing population.
St Mary’s Ward Councillor Elaine Aird has put questions to the East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s Pupil Services Department asking how future demand for school places will be met.
Beverley Theatre Company (BTC) are pleased to announce that Captain Edmund Blackadder, Private Baldrick, Lieutenant George and, yes, even Squadron Commander the Lord Flashheart, will be on parade at the Beverley Memorial Hall this November to help commemorate the centenary of the end of World War One.
HU17.net Magazine Issue 414 is out and available to purchase from Molescroft News on Woodhall Way.
This week’s issue features a selection of content that has appeared on he HU17 Web Site.
The debut tour by a Hull-based community choir has been announced, with seven dates across East Yorkshire including Beverley.
The Believe in Hull choir was set up in early 2017, bringing together members of different churches as well as attracting friends and family. it was originally formed for a special Easter concert but such was the enthusiasm that the group has continued performing.
When Beverley Town Council organised the first Food Festival in 2006, little did they know it would go on to be an annual success enjoyed by thousands of residents and visitors alike.
The original idea was to bring a few producers from Beverley’s rural hinterland into the town centre to help celebrate local food, so on a crisp Sunday morning in 2006, thirty-five producers set up their stalls along with a small Food Theatre, in what proved to be a big success for the Town Council – one that has grown stronger year on year.
Having been inspired by the efforts of the Beverley in Bloom Group who drew in all parts of the community, to make the town a better environment in which to live, and being a finalist in the Britain in Bloom campaign, it was felt that Beverley Town Council should try and carry on the momentum and revive the Brighter Beverley Group.