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DIY SOS’s Mark Millar Returning To East Yorkshire’s Biggest Construction Event

DIY SOS’s Mark Millar Returning To East Yorkshire’s Biggest Construction Event

The region’s biggest co-located construction trade and careers event will be returning to Bishop Burton College in October, backed by BBC DIY SOS’s Mark Millar.

Foundations Live, a networking trade show combined with an interactive careers event for people of all ages, will return to Bishop Burton College’s Equine Arena on Wednesday, October 2nd, hosting construction professionals and students from across the Humber region and beyond. Created and hosted by Hobson & Porter, the event is now in its fourth year and continues to grow in popularity and size.

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Metal Recycling Campaign Launches For The East Riding

Metal Recycling Campaign Launches For The East Riding

Residents in the East Riding are being encouraged to take part in a campaign to boost the recycling of metal packaging in their blue bins – following a successful trial held last year.

East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s waste and recycling team launched the MetalMatters campaign as they aim to encourage residents to place metal packaging items in their blue bins so they can be recycled.

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Rare Job Opportunity To Maintain Beverley Minster

Rare Job Opportunity To Maintain Beverley Minster

A rare opportunity to join the maintenance team looking after the fabric of the building for Beverley Minster Old Fund has arisen – a dream job for a handy crafts person, with a head for heights and a love of historical buildings.

A member of the team is relocating to Scotland, making a full-time opening for the first time in nearly fifteen years.

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Yorkshire Parents Are Spend Less Than Half An Hour Per Day With Their Children

Yorkshire Parents Spend Less Than Half An Hour Per Day With Their Children

Yorkshire parents and their children spend less than half an hour a day of ‘real’ quality time together, according to a One Poll study.

Researchers found fathers and their daughters are at a loss, getting the least quality time together than any other parent-child combo, with a quarter of an hour less every week.

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New Events Management Course Takes Off At East Riding College

New Events Management Course Takes Off At East Riding College

East Riding College’s new level 2 marketing and events management full-time study programme starts this September, with it already proving incredibly popular. 

The course is the first step towards a career in wedding planning, organising fashion shows, music events, promotions, sporting events, product launches and all manner of other marketing and promotional events. 

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Major Maritime Project Gets Green Light By Planning Committee

Major Maritime Project Gets Green Light By Planning Committee

Plans to transform some of Hull’s maritime treasures have been given the go-ahead at the council’s Planning Committee.

The decision now means that if the £13.6m bid to the National Lottery Heritage Fund is successful, funding would protect and promote 800 years of Hull’s seafaring history by creating the best maritime trail in the north of England.

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East Yorkshire Transport Charity Launches Volunteer Recruitment Drive

East Yorkshire Transport Charity Launches Volunteer Recruitment Drive

The East Yorkshire community transport operator, Beverley Community Lift (BCL), has launched an appeal for new volunteers in the county as the charity approaches its 50th anniversary year.

The service helps dozens of people every week in the East Riding with car and minibus transport services, particularly those who have difficulties using public transport or have no access to a car. It operates in and around Beverley, Cottingham, Market Weighton, Holme-upon-Spalding-Moor and Pocklington.

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Popular Family Event Big Bus Day Is Back For 2019

Popular Family Event Big Bus Day Is Back For 2019

Hull’s popular Big Bus Day returns for 2019, with lots to see and do at the Streetlife Museum of Transport.

Jointly organised by local bus company East Yorkshire and Hull Museums, Big Bus Day attracts people of all ages and has become one of the Museum Quarter’s biggest events.

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Murder Day Is Coming To Beverley

Murder Day Is Coming To Beverley

The East Riding Festival of Words presents a Murder Day on Saturday, 19 October at Beverley Memorial Hall.

There will be an array of crime authors, put together by the Murder Squad, including Cath Staincliffe, and an expert panel of bestselling authors: Margaret Murphy, Helen Pepper, and Ann Cleeves.

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