Prepare to be spooked as Yorkshire Wildlife Park casts enchanting spells across Halloween half term.
Mythical beasts and creepy characters will be at the heart of thrilling adventures throughout the week at the award-winning park.
Absolutely Cultured Project To Bring Young People’s Visions Of The Future To Life
Throughout October and November, Absolutely Cultured are launching Model City, a ground-breaking new project, supported by NHS Hull Clinical Commissioning Group, that will co-create high-quality arts and culture with young people from across the city. The project will culminate in an outdoor event in the city centre in February next year.
The children of today will be the town planners, architects and decision-makers of the future and will decide how we live, what our cities and spaces look like and how we interact with them.
Coffin Keepsakes – Regions Most Popular Requests Revealed In Survey
Hull residents are increasingly turning their backs on traditional religious funeral services, opting instead for diverse and sometimes eccentric celebrations of life, according to Hull Co-op Funeralcare.
A Chinese takeaway, a false leg and a Wizard of Oz costume have been revealed as some of the most unique items people have asked to be buried with, according to the UK’s largest report into funeral trends from the Co-op.
Hull City Council Youth Enterprise Manager Wins Award
A Hull enterprise leader has been presented with a prestigious award in the House of Lords.
Charles Cracknell, Hull City Council’s youth enterprise manager, has been named Enterprise Champion at the annual SFEDI & IOEE Celebrating Enterprise Awards.
Still Some Tickets Available For The East Riding Festival Of Words
The East Riding Festival of Words is back this week, bringing popular authors to the local area.
Several events are now sold out, but there are still some tickets left for a range of very different events.
FareShare Seek Volunteers In Hull For Christmas Food Collection
Leading charities the Trussell Trust and FareShare are appealing to people in Hull to volunteer to help in the UK’s biggest food collection for people in need.
From Thursday, November 21 until Saturday, November 23 the two charities will be collecting food in Tesco stores across the UK during the annual Tesco Food Collection. They are looking for local volunteers to encourage shoppers to donate so that as much food as possible can be collected.
Take That Experience – Ultimate Tribute Act To Perform In Beverley
With ten years under their belt of performing with one another, the Take That Experience will be in Beverley this weekend.
The group will be appearing at the Parkway Cinema in Beverley this coming Sunday. They are promising a night of great music celebrating one of the most iconic boy bands of the modern era.
Cruelty For Over 75s As Dementia Pensioners To Be Charged For TV Licence
New figures revealed by the Labour Party suggest that 45,198 over-75s living with dementia in Yorkshire & Humberside could lose their free TV licence next year.
Maintaining free TV licences for over-75s was a 2017 Conservative Party Manifesto Commitment, yet universal free TV licences for over 75s are being scrapped from next year.
Bridlington Based GP Dr Tom Milligan Wins National Accolade
East Riding of Yorkshire CCG is delighted that local GP Dr Tom Milligan won the Clinician of the Year Award 2019 at an impressive dinner ceremony at the National Association of Primary Care (NAPC) annual conference in Birmingham.
The award recognises an outstanding clinician, a leader who is an inspiration to others, a person who demonstrates compassion and empathy, an achiever of change in their community.
Ivan Usher Stand Was Real Community Project Say Family
Hilary Usher says the Ivan Usher Stand opened at Beverley Town Football Club in memory of her late husband was a real community project.
The Ivan Usher Stand came to be as a result of fundraising efforts by the Usher family and numerous supporters.
Burglars Are Not Always In Balaclavas
Local commercial insurance broker, HI Commercial and IT firm, Computanet are hosting a cybersecurity workshop on Wednesday 30 October from 8:00am at the Millhouse Skidby.
Led by Hiscox, the team will demonstrate how malicious cyber hackers are breaching company data and IT systems.
Beverley Blues Weekend Returns To Town For Ninth Year
Beverley Blues Weekend will return later this month for what will be the ninth year. Featuring some of the best blues talents from East Yorkshire acts will be appearing at two local venues.
Both the Sun Inn and also the Monks Walk will embrace the festival that runs from the 25 to the 27 October.
Hull To Become One Of Smartest Cities In The World
A groundbreaking partnership between Hull City Council and smart city operator Connexin is set to put Hull among the world leaders in smart city technology.
The ambitious plans would link services including waste management, traffic and parking to deliver improved public services for residents.
Extinction Rebellion – Many Young People In Beverley Share Their Concerns
Extinction Rebellion are into their second week of protests in London. Here in Beverley just weeks ago students from local schools joined global protests staged in relation to climate change.
While London may be under siege from protesters and dividing opinion, the truth is their cause is one that impacts us all.
Beverley Town Reserves Suffer Eighth Consecutive Defeat
Beverley Town Reserves were well beaten as they lost 3-1 to Driffield Evening Institute at the Norwood Recreation Ground.
The defeat means Town’s second string have lost their last eight consecutive games in a run that stretches back to August. As a result, they are just one place of the bottom in the Humber Premier League One.
Barratt Homes Yorkshire Team Up With Cottingham High School
Five-star housebuilder Barratt Homes Yorkshire East recently invited 20 students from Cottingham High School to learn about the importance of protecting and preserving wildlife in the community, this autumn.
As part of the activity, the housebuilder took the students on a tour of its Gold Standard RSPB wildlife-friendly garden at the nearby Poppy Fields development in Cottingham.
National Adoption Week Is Ideal Time To Find Out If You Can Adopt
There are currently 69 children across East Riding, North Yorkshire and the Humber who are waiting for permanent, loving homes due to a shortage of people coming forward to adopt.
Unfortunately, many potential adopters rule themselves out, due to myths and outdated beliefs about who can adopt and the qualities they need.
Beverley Remain Second After Beating Local Rival Hullensians
In recent seasons Beverley at Hullensians have performed wretchedly, suffered defeat, and seen their season start to fall away.
This time though they never looked remotely like the side that had racked up over two hundred points in their last four games they at least they came away with the five-point win they wanted.