Hull City Council has been announced as Tech Week Humber’s headline partner for the second year in a row.
Last year’s Tech Expo Humber event at the Bonus Arena was the first of its kind in the region, attracting 2,000 people over a two-day period and reaching a 1.5 million people through PR and social media.
Since opening its doors on the Bridgehead Business Park, Hessle, in June 2018, the ergo business centre has continued to flourish and 2020 is shaping up to be a big year.
The centre, which is run by East Riding of Yorkshire Council in partnership with the University of Hull’s Aura Innovation Centre, is aimed at the growing renewable energy and environmental technology sectors.
Fans of Fleetwood Mac and other musical heroes have the show of a lifetime in-store at Vue Hull.
Legendary drummer Mick Fleetwood enlisted an all-star cast at The London Palladium in honour of Fleetwood Mac co-founder Peter Green in February and the performance will be shown on the big screen at Vue Hull in June.
East Riding Libraries and Customer Services are now able to assist customers in the creation of Ordnance Survey maps.
These maps are suitable for a variety of uses including planning and building regulations applications.
New for 2020, Coastal Farmers Markets are coming to Bridlington on the third Saturday of every month, starting on Saturday, 21 March.
Located on the South Promenade between the RNLI building and Bridlington Spa, and open from 9am – 2pm, the Farmers Markets will feature a large number of local food, beverage and craft stalls. Entry will be free.
A new exhibition called Transforming the Town opens at the Beverley Guildhall this March.
The exhibition will use old photos alongside more recent ones to form a timeline which reveals some of the dramatic transformations that have taken place in Beverley over the years.
Graham Stuart, MP for Beverley and Holderness, met with officials from Network Rail as part of a visit to Beverley train station.
Mr Stuart met with officials to discuss the £600,000 investment into one of East Yorkshire’s busiest stations.
A new exhibition opening at Beverley Art Gallery on Saturday, 14 March.
‘Journey Into Abstraction’, will be a retrospective exhibition of the contemporary British artist John Sprakes, whose career spans over 60 years of painting and shows.
St Mary’s Primary School have thanked the local Tesco store and their customers. Their comments come after they were awarded cash by the supermarket.
The school in Beverley was awarded the money as part of the Bags of Help incentive. Following a vote by shoppers at the Morton Lane store, the school were named winners in the 2019 March / April draw.
Local housebuilder, Barratt Developments Yorkshire East, which includes the Barratt Homes and David Wilson Homes brands, supported 12 charities in 2019.
In all, they have donated £12,000 to support causes close to the hearts of its team members as part of its ongoing Community Fund scheme.
East Riding Libraries will be celebrating Shakespeare Week 2020. Shakespeare Week takes place from the 16 to 22 March with Beverley Library planning fun events for children and families.
Beverley Library and also others across the East Riding will offer colouring masks of favourite Shakespeare characters.
The property market in Hull has seen a massive shift now Brexit is over the line and investment properties are in huge demand.
A group of Hull businesses will be hosting an event to help local people understand the ins and outs of property investment in this area.
Cyber savvy girls from Beverley High School are preparing to take on the best teams from the rest of the UK in an attempt to be crowned the nation’s codebreaking champions.
The pupils, aged 12 and 13, saw off challengers from northern England last month to reach the CyberFirst Girls Competition final. They will now take on the nine best teams from the rest of the UK.
The popular local resident Claire Levy is contesting the St Mary’s West Ward seat on the Beverley Town Council by-election this Thursday 12 March 2020 following a recent resignation.
Supermarkets and other shops are implementing restrictions as a result of panic buying triggered by the COVID-19 outbreak.
Locally here in Beverley the local Asada store saw their stocks of toilet roll wiped out. While other products like hand sanitizer remain almost impossible to find.
This Thursday, 12 March, a by-election will be held in the St Mary’s West ward to elect a new councillor to Beverley Town Council.
The well known and respected campaigner, David Tucker, will contest the seat for the Liberal Democrats who won all 7 St Mary’s seats on Beverley Town Council last May, in addition to 3 councillors on the East Riding of Yorkshire Council.
Beverley ARLFC got their new season off to a winning start as they beat Woolston Rovers 22-12 at the Beverley Leisure Centre.
A hard-fought and at times feisty encounter Coach Tony Spence was pleased with the result. He was also happy with the effort shown by his side.
What an extraordinary match. The final score made it look close but it seldom was. After twenty-five minutes Beverley was cruising at 19 – 0 up and playing some fluent attacking rugby.
Fifty minutes later they were 40-26 down having been given a thorough going-over by a resurgent home side. A strong comeback in the last five minutes then brought them back up to within two points to earn them a bonus point.