Blood, plasma and platelet donors in all Tiers are urged by the NHS to keep attending as normal if they are fit and healthy.
Giving blood and plasma – including in Tier 3 and Tier 4 – is classed as essential travel and donation sessions will stay open, with appointments remaining as normal.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council has been crowned overall council of the year in the APSE Service Awards.
The council beat off competition from Aberdeen City Council, Cambridge City Council, Mid & East Antrim Borough Council, Nottingham City Council and Swansea City Council to win the top accolade at the annual awards, which celebrate outstanding achievement and innovation within local government.
Waste collection dates for Hull residents will be changing over the Christmas and New Year break.
Bin collections will change slightly over a three-week period, before returning to normal next month.
Micalea Clegg, an expert in the food and beverage sector and the proud owner of the award-winning pub The Black Horse, Little Weighton launches a local recipe box service.
Passionate for local produce and delicious recipes, Micaela noticed the gap in the market. From this thought, utilising time in lockdown, the brand was born.
Police and Crime Commissioner for Humberside, Keith Hunter has provided an additional £48,000 for Project Nova to support Armed Forces veterans.
This funding will help to provide dedicated emotional and practical support services for veterans to help them gain social stability and health and wellbeing to support the transition from military to civilian life.
Christmas and New Year can be a busy time, which makes it easy for people to miss checking on their medical supplies.
Hull and East Riding GPs are asking people to order repeat prescriptions early to make sure they have enough to tide them over the holiday period when some GP Practices and pharmacies are closed.
Forrester Boyd, one of the leading independent accountancy firms in Beverley and the wider region is excited to welcome the class of 2020.
This year’s intake of six trainee accountants brings with them a very broad range of skills and interests.
The MP for Beverley and Holderness, Graham Stuart, has welcomed that Holderness Health in his constituency is one of the first GP practices to offer the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccination against Covid-19 to their most vulnerable patients.
Tailor-made teddies are taking off with charity supporters around the world to help raise money for a major medical facility which is close to completion at Castle Hill Hospital.
In addition to the best-dressed bears, customers of Cock of the Walk tailors in Hull have been placing festive orders for hand-made dogs and dinosaurs, with the amount raised for the Daisy Appeal now topping £1,000.
Beverley Art Gallery is releasing more mindful art recordings in the run-up to Christmas, part of the gallery’s Mindful Engagement with Art Project.
Mindfulness is a meditation technique that requires nothing but a few minutes of a person’s time to be spent focused – in the case of Beverley Art Gallery, this focus is aimed at paintings from their collection.
Laura Truscott a self-employed Colourist says she is shocked and honoured at being named Colourist of the Year in the Salon Awards.
34-year-old Laura who is a colour specialist at BB’s Hair Boutique in Beverley found out she won the prestigious title as Colourist of the Year in Yorkshire just days ago.
Holderness Health GP practice is one of the first practices to offer the COVID vaccination to their most at risk, vulnerable patients in the Holderness area.
Following the launch of the vaccine last week at Castle Hill Hospital, Peter Ainscough aged 84 became one of the first people in Holderness to receive the COVID vaccine.
Beverley Art Gallery recently launched a series of videos called ‘It’s in the BAG – Behind the scenes at Beverley Art Gallery’, presented by the gallery’s curator Helena Cox and showing remarkable paintings from the gallery’s repository.
For the festive season, the gallery is launching another batch of videos, this time presented by Jane Irisa, an East Riding based collector of traditional Japanese toys.
East Riding residents can now register for the YORSwitch auction, after its latest auction saw an impressive 4,500 households in the area register, saving an average of £150 by switching with the scheme.
Since the scheme started in 2013, YORSwitch has switched more than 35,000 households and delivered more than £7.4million savings for East Riding residents.
A Redrow site manager will build his 500th home while in charge of its East Riding development, Swanland Heights. It also marks his 20th year of site management.
Paul Douglass, a previous winner of Site Manager of the Year for Redrow in Yorkshire, is currently overseeing the build of 56 new homes at Swanland Heights, in the village of Swanland.
Value garden centre Cherry Lane Beverley has seen shoppers getting ready to spread Christmas cheer this year by stocking up early on festive decorations, cards and gifts.
Cherry Lane has just announced some of its top sellers over the past six weeks of the second national lockdown.
Visit East Yorkshire and Bridlington Spa are delighted to announce the return of the British Open and British Classic darts tournament to Bridlington in 2021.
The three-day tournament organised by Tri-Nations darts will be held at Bridlington Spa from Friday 15 to Sunday 17 October 2021.
Hull City Council is linking up with a major global organisation to help realise ambitious plans for a carbon-neutral future in the city.
The council, along with neighbouring East Riding of Yorkshire Council, has appointed the Carbon Trust to undertake an assessment of how it can become carbon-neutral.