This week saw the opening of Flemingate’s new play area. Flemingate has doubled the size of its existing popular play area.
This has been done with the addition of an activity tower featuring a climbing wall and slide, interactive play panels and some new play equipment for younger children.
TV star Helen Skelton was thrilled to be back among rare and endangered species as she visited the award-winning Yorkshire Wildlife Park to open two new reserves.
The BBC Countryfile presenter was able to feed and get up close to the animals as she previewed the park’s summer expansion.
Graham Stuart, MP for Beverley and Holderness, has welcomed the news that East Riding Council has received a further £2.4 million from the Government in July, to take their total share of additional coronavirus funding to just over £21 million.
The new money comes as part of a £500 million package of un-ringfenced funding for councils up and down the country, to help them continue to deliver crucial frontline services and support those most in need.
Work to install pop-up cycle lanes in Spring Bank and Ferensway has begun in the city.
In Spring Bank, the left-hand lane in both directions will be converted into a combined bus and cycle lane, which will run between Ferensway and Princes Avenue.
An employee consultation asked the staff at KWL in Hull to vote on company values, finding being a friend to the environment was central to its core.
A plan has emerged to become a zero-carbon organisation, with KWL initiatives and company-wide training in action to achieve targets.
Mental health expert joins The Pig Wrestling Podcast team as a joint-host.
The Hull-based podcast has appointed Jo Kent to spread awareness of mental health issues and to provide some feminine influence.
A new roundabout along Beverley’s Minster Way is fully open to traffic after construction work was completed on the £1.38m scheme.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council began work on the new roundabout – between the Long Lane overpass and the Lincoln Way roundabout – in November last year.
East Riding College merged with the TEC Partnership on 31 July. The TEC Partnership is a dynamic and innovative group of colleges and training providers and is already one of England’s largest and most successful providers of further and higher education.
As part of the TEC Partnership, the College will retain its influence, identity and ability to deliver its mission within the dynamic of the wider partnership.
East Riding Libraries and Customer Services are delighted to have reopened as lockdown restrictions have eased.
Since re-opening on Monday, 6 July, the teams have dealt with thousands of queries and book reservations, and just as many books returned. However, during the lockdown, the teams focused on the other main purpose of Libraries and Customer Services – the local community.
The team at a Middleton on the Wolds poultry business are celebrating after their Finance and IT Director has reached the finals of the prestigious Women in Meat Industry Awards.
Claire Wright ACMA has been shortlisted in the Manufacturing/Processing category of the annual awards that recognise outstanding female talent and showcase the contributions that women make to the meat sector.
East Riding Councillors have approved a Motion from Lib Dem Linda Johnson to bid for £485,000 for safer cycling.
The bid has to be submitted by the Council before the deadline of 7 August, to qualify for Government funding. The Motion was passed unanimously.
East Riding College said farewell to its long-serving Chair of the Corporation at the end of July.
Local businessman Simon Wright joined the board of governors at the college fifteen years ago when the Beverley campus was based at the old Gallows Lane site and before the current Bridlington campus was built.
Superstar Katherine Jenkins headline appearance at the award-winning Yorkshire Wildlife Park’s series of Wild Live Safari Night concerts this summer has been postponed till 2021 due to the pandemic.
The Mezzo-Soprano singer-songwriter, who is officially the world’s most successful Classical Singer ever with 13 number one albums in just over a decade, will now perform on Saturday, August 28, 2021.
World Breastfeeding Week takes place annually, and this year falls on 1-7 August.
To preface this important awareness week, a celebration called The Big Latch On will occur on Friday 31 July between 10am and 11am, in which families from all over the world are invited to breastfeed and offer peer support to each other.
Best-dressed bears are bringing a touch of Savile Row style to the efforts of a charity striving to establish an internationally renowned scanning centre at Castle Hill Hospital.
The Daisy Appeal has partnered with Cock of the Walk tailors in Hull and has secured the sewing skills of an eager volunteer to offer a range of trendy teds for sale.
Popular local children’s entertainer Magic Mike will be back for fun and frivolity at Bridlington Spa with two shows per week in August.
With social distancing in place, the venue will be operating at a reduced capacity and the show will take place in the Edwardian style theatre. Instead of the Royal Hall.
Beverley Art Gallery has released a new podcast in the series called ‘It’s in the BAG – a Beverley Art Gallery podcast’.
The first episode in the series was all about Beverley artist Fred Elwell. While the latest edition concerns his wife, Mary Elwell, following the recent online celebrations of the 150th anniversary of Fred’s birth.
A new creative hub for artists and makers is preparing to open its doors at Beverley’s Flemingate centre.
Art and Soul will be located in the unit which was formerly The Creative Lab and will open to the public on September 1.