Beverley ARLFC went toe to toe with their Cumbrian hosts for 65 minutes but just ran out of steam in the closing minutes.
Up until then, particularly in the first half, an upset against the still promotion-chasing home side looked likely as they led 14-4 at the break and were still 14-10 up deep into the second half.
Tesco in Beverley has been handing out the cash to both Beverley High School and the Leven Festival.
Beverley High School was awarded £4,000 while the Leven Festival picked up a £1,000 donation. Money donated was raised through the companies ‘Bags of Help’ scheme.
Rick Robert’s reputation as one of the country’s leading hair salons has been confirmed. Rick has
been placed as a double finalist in HJ’s British Hairdressing Awards 2019, sponsored by Schwarzkopf Professional.
An exhibition in Hull will explore the role the city has played in supporting its seafaring community.
For those in Peril on the Sea will look at how, from the 18th century to the present day, efforts have been made to help seafarers and to improve their physical and moral welfare.
Brand new traffic lights are to be installed at a major Beverley junction starting next week.
Work is due to begin on Monday 12 August to replace the lights and poles at the New Walkergate and Manor Road junction with Norwood and Hengate.
When the 2019 US Open commences at Flushing Meadows in New York City at the end of August, despite the distance, fans of tennis in Beverley will have a vested interest in the progress of one of the town’s former residents.
Kyle Edmund is a familiar name to members of the Beverley & East Riding Lawn Tennis Club, which is where the current British number one first began to hone his talent as a youngster. Indeed, the coaching program is run by head coach, Tom Davies, who contributed towards helping Edmund realise his ambitions of becoming a professional tennis player.
Some of the world’s top para-cyclists, including Beverley-born double world and Paralympic champion Adam Duggleby, will be in the town next month for the start of the Yorkshire 2019 Para-Cycling International.
Adam, who is the tandem pilot for partially-sighted Steve Bate, will join around 60 cyclists in Beverley’s Saturday Market on Saturday, 21 September for the start of the Yorkshire 2019 Para-Cycling International.
An optician in Kingswood Retail Park Hull has teamed up with Hull City Football Club to offer family match day tickets to watch The Tigers at home this season.
The local Specsavers store has partnered with Hull City to help boost awareness for children’s eye care.
Humber Street Sesh’s graffiti scene was boosted by local bus company East Yorkshire providing two single deck buses to be painted by world-class artists.
Two decommissioned buses were loaned to the festival, which took place on Friday 2 and Saturday 3 August, with graffiti artists being given free rein to create something spectacular.
Resident Playwright and Hospital at Night Lead Nurse Steph Flanagan wrote and directed her first play, ‘Egg White and Oxygen’ which transports the audience back to nursing times in the 1980s, as a Trainee nurse dons her uniform for the first time to start her training. Due to popular demand, the play is returning on the 26th and 27th August.
East Riding Town Crier Michael Wood has still got plenty to shout about after narrowly missing the title of Champion Crier at the Loyal Company of Town Criers British Championship in Darlington.
Michael was beaten into second place on the competition podium after losing out on the title by half a point. However, he was thrilled to be awarded the next two important prizes – Best Dressed Town Crier and Best Ambassador. These titles are for town crying presentational skills off the podium.
Stylish fashion and summer cocktails will be the order of the day as racegoers up the glamour stakes for Flemingate Ladies Day.
The prestigious raceday, presented in partnership with Beverley’s Flemingate centre, returns on Wednesday, August 14, with superb racing, excellent entertainment, mouth-watering hospitality, wonderful prizes and a celebrity guest!
Beverley ARFLC will make one of their longer trips this Saturday as they face Barrow Island in the National Conference League.
Scott Taylor and his side will head to Ratings Lane for the 2.30PM kick in a match that has little meaning.
Jacob’s Well is, for the first time, sending a coach overseas, in a change from its normal business of sending aid for hospitals, schools or disaster victims.
The coach, generously donated by Acklams coaches in Beverley, is en route to Burkina Faso in West Africa.
East Yorkshire community transport charity, Beverley Community Lift (BCL), received a Yorkshire Day treat with a donation of £500 towards minibus activities in the county.
The donation was made by Barchester’s Charitable Foundation, part of Barchester Healthcare, which operates care homes across the country.
A trip to the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition in Beverley in 2018 has inspired one young visitor to complete a fundraising walk from Beverley to York, to raise money to save rhinos.
Acacia Van Dyk, aged 10 and from Cottingham, visited the exhibition at the Treasure House last year, which showed winning photographs from 2017, and was moved by the stunning and shocking picture she saw of a rhino with its horns removed.
HU17.net Magazine Issue 454 is out and available to purchase from Molescroft News on Woodhall Way.
This week’s issue features a selection of content that has appeared on the HU17 Web Site.
News that additional charging points for electric cars in the East Riding have been installed has been welcomed by Beverley Motorworks.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council has announced that points have been installed in Withernsea and also Pocklington.