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The Dog & Duck are currently running a ‘guess the weight’ competition after being given a giant pumpkin. The pumpkin was grown by Beverley Male Voice Choir member Nick Andrews and is currently sitting on its own table in the pub. For a £1 regulars can have a guess at the weight with the winner receiving a few pints on the house. The money raised from the competition will go…
Miriam Roycroft and Anne-Marie Hastings will be performing at The Toll Gavel United Church, Beverley on Thursday 11 November 2010 at 7.30pm. 2010 has been a very interesting year for fans of classical music. Many of yesterday’s giants of composition have had important anniversaries to celebrate and this evening’s programme will include works by Schumann, Barber, Pergolesi, Beethoven and Chopin. Dublin-born Miriam Roycroft studied at the Royal Northern College of…
The Beverley Theatre Company will be staging their first production of the 2010 / 11 season when they perform the comedy, ‘Plaza Suite’ at the Memorial Hall in Beverley from the 10th to the 13th November. The play, written by Neil Simon, was originally performed in New York in 1968, and the three acts see three different couples dealing with very different issues in the same hotel room. Karen and…
Local theatre company ‘No Soup!’ Productions performed their latest play ‘Marvell at Midnight’ in the Beverley Minster Parish Hall. This show was one of many including performances in Selby, Newcastle, Camden (London), and at the Edinburgh Fringe. ‘Marvell at Midnight’ is an original play suffused with jazz, comedy, surrealism and accordions: a vibrant expose of the trials and triumphs of up-and-coming artists in 1930’s Hull. The performance is punctuated by…
Police in the East Riding are committed to making sure ‘little haunters’ are kept safe this Halloween and have been working closely with retailers, schools and Neighbourhood Watch Groups giving out personal safety advice on how to have a safe and fun Halloween. Posters have been given out to residents who do not want to be disturbed by Halloween callers this year, which can be displayed in a prominent position…
A popular scheme which gives shoppers free parking in the run up to Christmas is set to run again this year. For the past two years, those preparing for Christmas by shopping in the East Riding have benefited as East Riding of Yorkshire Council suspended parking charges at its car parks during the three weekends leading up to Christmas. At its meeting on Tuesday, 2 November, the council’s cabinet is…
East Riding residents took less waste to the 10 household waste and recycling sites over the summer months compared with the same months last year. For East Riding of Yorkshire Council, Councillor Symon Fraser, portfolio holder for environment and planning, said: “This is excellent news because the cheapest waste to get rid of is the waste we don’t make. “It saves the council and our taxpayers the cost of dealing…
HU17.net Magazine Issue 16 out later today, featuring pictures from the following events and sports games that happened this week in Beverley – Beverley ‘Class of the 80s’ 60s & 70s Disco Beverley Wellbeing Open Evening DeLacy’s New Salon Body Art With Pete McNally Beverley RUFC 2nds, Bandits & Under 17s Beverley Town FC HU17.net Picture Gallery: Click on the thumbnail picture below to enlarge the image to full size…
A team of rugby lads are displaying their usual bare-faced cheek for an annual fundraising calendar that has become an international hit. The Beverley Rugby team have got their kit off to create the next eagerly anticipated naked fund raising calendar. This will be the fourth nude calendar that the team has produced. Over the last few years they have really taken off and become cult collectors’ items, with sales…
Each year the Beverley Lions Club organise their Annual Fireworks Display on Guy Fawkes Night, which this year is on Friday 5th November and will take place as usual on the Beverley Westwood adjacent to Westwood Road. **INFORMATION FOR BEVERLEY LIONS BONFIRE 2011 ** The Bonfire which is provided by the Beverley Town Council will be lit at 7-15 pm by the Mayor of Beverley, Councillor Bessie Foot, together with…
As part of a project to improve historic town centre lanes in Beverley, Beverley Renaissance will take to the streets along with East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s safe communities team next Tuesday to tackle the current condition of Tindall Lane and remove graffiti. The clean up of the lane, which acts as a thoroughfare from several popular car parks and the train station through to Wednesday Market, will start at…
Members of Beverley Rugby club will be taking part in what has become an annual worldwide event amongst thousands of rugby players, when they embark on the Movember Challenge. Movember as you may have realised is held throughout the month of November and those taking part attempting to grow a mustache with the primary aim of raising awareness of cancer amongst men and raising some money for the Everyman Male…
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Beverley Wellbeing is a company owned and run by Duncan O’Connor that delivers Sports Therapy, particularly focusing on sports injuries, personal training, elite level strength and conditioning, and performance nutritional advice. This week Duncan was joined by friends and customers at his new facility on Barston Road, Beverley. Those who attended included Scott Taylor and Scott Wheeldon from Hull Kingston Rovers and England International Kirk Yeman who plays his club…
At a time when the country is focused on cut backs, a local businesswoman Kerris Lacy is expanding. Kerris, who runs the successful De Lacy Beauty Salon in Beverley, has moved to her dream premises. Kerris has over 12 years’ experience. She started out with a rented room before moving into her own salon. It was not long before she outgrew her first premises and she has now made the…
Teenagers who want to make a positive difference to the town of Beverley are being invited to join a new organisation. Love Beverley aims to serve the local community through acts of kindness and help young people show the many good aspects of the vast majority of youth in the town. Led by Beverley Minster Youth Minister Lee Kirkby the Love Beverley team is aiming to be a real help…
Beverley and Holderness MP, Graham Stuart, is calling on all charities, social enterprises and voluntary groups to help in the fight against excessive red tape. His call comes as the Government launches a joint Cabinet Office and Department of Business, Innovation and Skills task force to look at ways of making life easier for groups working in the voluntary and social sector. Graham said: “I have, with the help of…
The local Safeguarding Children Boards of Hull and East Riding have joined forces with local campaigner Louise Barrett to highlight the risks associated with co-sleeping this winter. Infant deaths associated with co-sleeping appear to rise across the UK over the winter months*, and Child Death Overview Panels in Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire want to emphasise the key risks to parents to help reduce infant deaths where co-sleeping…