The £4.3m Queens Gardens refurbishment is set to feature a number of permanent art installations that will celebrate and bring to life Hull’s rich maritime past.
The installations, from internationally-renowned and award-winning artists Katayoun Dowlatshahi and Heinrich & Palmer, will include a new seating area in the Peace Garden, integrated artworks on new amphitheatre-style seating, as well as maritime-inspired installations and lighting along the boundary of the gardens.
Save the date for the hottest ticket in town as Hull Truck Theatre’s Christmas performance gets set to spread joy to residents across Hull and East Yorkshire.
This is thanks to an innovative partnership with Hull City Council and East Riding of Yorkshire Council.
Visitors to Beverley’s Flemingate centre can now immerse themselves in an exciting new sense of reality!
The Flemingate team has launched a free augmented reality app, ‘ARound’, which features fun games and challenges that come alive for visitors as they walk through the popular retail and leisure destination.
Graham Stuart, MP has met virtually 6th form students from Beverley Joint 6th form to raise questions and discuss their concerns about the A-level exams they will be taking next year.
The Prime Minister and Education Secretary have been clear that exams will go ahead in 2021.
A discretionary grant scheme to help households struggling in the run-up to Christmas has been launched.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council has launched the scheme to support those most in need with the cost of food, energy and other essentials.
The Attestation ceremony of the latest intake of 50 new student officers took place at the Police Training Centre in North Hull.
It means that the total numbers of Police Officers at Humberside Police to 2074, the highest number in 10 years.
East Riding of Yorkshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is delighted to be shortlisted in the HSJ Awards for the Primary Care Innovation of the Year award.
The award recognises those schemes that demonstrate innovative ways of supporting people to stay out of the hospital and receive care closer to home.
Proving it’s more than a weekend, in 2021 Freedom Festival will present two internationally renowned performances prior to its annual September festival, with an uplifting spring programme starting in March.
Project ECHO provides free online training to the local community of health and social care providers across Hull and East Yorkshire.
Working with the Humber, Coast and Vale Health and Care Partnership, in April 2020 Dove House Hospice launched the local Project ECHO by providing vital training to care home staff across Hull and East Yorkshire.
In a picture which sums up the strangeness of 2020, a mysterious figure clad all in white patrols racks of board games, jigsaw puzzles and other toys, firing a chemical mist from his spray gun.
He’s one of the good guys, applying a new anti-Covid fogging treatment. It coats touchpoints and products.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council, in partnership with Hull City Council, is seeking to recruit up to five new volunteers.
They are needed to take their place on the East Riding of Yorkshire and Kingston upon Hull Joint Local Access Forum in early 2021.
McCarthy and Stone have showcased its proposals to redevelop the former Westwood Park Care Home, off Langholm Close.
Their plans will see the site developed into 51 high-quality retirement apartments. It will also feature communal facilities. These include a homeowners’ lounge, mobility scooter charging and storage room.
Proposals to restore the Beverley to York rail link have been turned down by the Government. MP Graham Stuart says he disappointed with the decision while adding he remains optimistic that the project has a future.
Back in June, the MP submitted a bid to restore the 32-mile length of track from Beverley to York to the Department for Transport’s Restoring Your Railway Fund.
East Riding Theatre has launched a fundraising campaign as they look to raise £20,000 to solidify its future as a valued local charity.
They say that with the likelihood of ongoing social distancing measures their income streams will be impacted.
No Limits a new employment programme has been launched to help young people find employment and training opportunities.
Run in partnership by Department for Work and Pensions and the local council, the programme aims to help 18-24-year-olds.
Humberside Police say that this year communities across Britain have seen an increase in reports of antisocial behaviour.
As the first lockdown restrictions were lifted and more of us headed back out. As a result, many areas saw a rise in the number of calls about antisocial behaviour.
With the region entering local restrictions, bus company East Yorkshire is reminding passengers bus travel is safe and has introduced even more safety measures to help protect bus users.
These have been implemented in time for people doing their Christmas shopping and to help encourage them not to use their cars, keeping congestion low.
The first payments are now being made under a new fund designed to help Hull businesses through coronavirus.
More than 350 applications have already been received for the Additional Restrictions Grant, set up to provide support to businesses hit by the pandemic.