All the lastest news in Beverley East Yorkshire, updated with reporst and exclusive videos and images of the topics that effect those living in Beverley East Yorkshire.
Agriculture, Animal Management, and Equine students put on an impressive display at Bishop Burton College during the 63rd Stock Skills competition.
Stock Skills prepares students for a large country show by preparing them for a variety of tasks. Each student prepares for the event by practicing grooming and clipping skills, and ensuring the animal’s diet means it is in optimum condition. They compete in Dairy, Sheep, Goat, and Equine classes. Competing requires the development of specialist skills and knowledge that can also be transferred to the workplace.
With Samaritans being Charity of the Year for the TCS London Marathon 2024, Hull Samaritans set their own challenges to coincide with the internationally-recognised event.
Supporters Michael Starkey and Callum Norsworthy rowed a 24 hour non-stop relay on the Market Cross in Beverley, from 1.00pm Saturday 20th April to 1.00pm Sunday 21st April.
Following a successful bid to the Government to fund electric buses in Hull and the East Riding, Hull City Council’s cabinet has approved plans to enable the purchase of 40 electric buses and the allocation of circa £2million of funding from the authority for the installation of charging infrastructure to support the rollout of the vehicles in the city, including for the use of local bus operators and the council’s own fleet of passenger vehicles.
Tesco Community Grants have funded thousands of local community projects across the UK, helping schools, junior sports teams, foodbanks, charities and community groups. Since 2016 almost a hundred local projects voted on in Tesco’s Beverley store have received over £190,000 in grants.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council is supporting the ‘Check. Think. Report.’ campaign, which was launched across Europe on International Missing Children’s Day.
The campaign is launching in 16 countries and 14 languages by AMBER Alert Europe, The European Centre for Missing Children. It is aimed at parents and caregivers, provides them with a comprehensive step-by-step guide on what to do and what to expect if their child goes missing.
An experienced corporate and commercial lawyer, Luke Rees, has joined Wilkin Chapman, the largest law firm in Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire, with 18 corporate and commercial law specialists based in Grimsby, Lincoln, Beverley, and Louth.
Throughout his career, Luke has advised a variety of commercial clients regarding the sale and purchase of companies, private equity investments, corporate restructurings, shareholder agreements, and a wide range of commercial contracts.
Councillor Linda Bayram has been elected as the new chairman of East Riding of Yorkshire Council following the authority’s annual general meeting.
Councillor Bayram, who has been vice chairman for the last year, has served for nine years as a Conservative councillor representing the Howdenshire ward on East Riding of Yorkshire Council.
Exciting fusion group Track Dogs are set to bring their unique blend of folk, Americana and roots to East Riding Theatre, Beverley on Friday 12th April as part of their Blind Summits and Hidden Dips tour, celebrating the release of their latest album of the same name.
After an incredible 2023, which included playing the Royal Albert Hall and Glastonbury, Track Dogs are back on the road for their biggest tour yet.
Beverley is a largely Georgian town, but how much do local residents know about Georgian times?
The new exhibition at Beverley Guildhall, ‘Through the eyes of a Georgian gentleman’, uses the diary of a Beverley gentleman, John Courtney, who lived in the town from 1734 to 1806, to illustrate how life in Georgian England was experienced by real people in Beverley. The exhibition opens on Wednesday, 6 March.
Beverley Town Council has launched the Best of Beverley Awards, to celebrate the amazing support businesses and voluntary groups give to our local community.
Clive Kneller directs ‘Confusions,’ an interconnecting one-act play by Alan Ayckbourn that will be presented by East Riding Theatre this Spring. As it celebrates its fiftieth anniversary in 2024, ‘Confusions’ promises an evening of laughter, highlighting human behaviour quirks.
Luke Hobson, butchery apprentice with Bishop Burton College was named Best Apprentice Showing Management Potential in a Manufacturing Environment at the Institute of Meat (IoM) and Worshipful Company of Butchers (WCB) Annual Prizegiving, held at Butchers Hall in London, on 29th February.
Luke, who competed against butchery apprentices from around the country, is pursuing an Advanced Butcher qualification while holding the position of Trainee Supervisor of the process hall, within the factory at Pilgrim’s UK Lamb Ltd (formerly Randall Parker Foods).
The Liberal Democrats have secured a stunning double victory by winning two by-elections in one night in the East Riding with Group Leader declaring the result shows they are ‘seriously on the up.’
East Riding Liberal Democrat Group Leader Cllr Denis Healy’s comments come after Tony Henderson was elected Beverley in Minster and Woodmanse and Ross Harrison elected in Tranby.
Beverley Building Society has announced new sponsorship partnerships with both Beverley Rugby Union Football Club (RUFC) and Beverley Town Football Club. The partnership with Beverley RUFC will see the Society become a sponsor of the women’s team as well as supporting some of the mini and junior teams. As an official partner of Beverley Town FC men’s team, they will also support the kids’ teams and the girls’ academy.
For the first time in 17 years, the East Riding of Yorkshire council has passed a budget, shaped and influenced by the opposition groups, and reflects the new no overall control situation on the council.
The Conservative leadership needed to make budget concessions to the Liberal Democrat, Labour and Yorkshire Party groups in order to deliver a budget which was approved by 53 votes at today’s budget council meeting.
Longcroft School and Sixth Form are celebrating the outcome of their recent Section 5 Ofsted Inspection, which has further validated the school’s exceptional progress over recent years. Inspectors were hugely complimentary about the school and effusive in their recognition of the journey it has travelled since previous inspections.
They acknowledged the hard work of the dedicated staff, and the profound impact that the Wonder Learning Partnership (WLP) Trust has had in supporting rapid improvements, having been commissioned by the local authority to oversee the school in 2019.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council is supporting the Global Action Plan which is highlighting the harms caused by wood burning.
Clean Air Night takes place on Wednesday 24 January and shines a light on the uncomfortable truths about wood burning.
Most people in the UK don’t know that wood burning is bad for our health and for the environment.
Graham Stuart, Member of Parliament for Beverley and Holderness, brought together cross-party councillors from across Beverley and Molescroft to express their concerns to Connexin, the Hull-based fibre broadband provider, about its planned delivery of broadband by telegraph poles to the town.
After seeing other neighbourhoods have telegraph poles imposed on them without sufficient consultation, Graham convened the councillors around the table with Connexin to ensure the people of Beverley and Molescroft have their voices heard.
