Hull is no stranger to arts and culture and this summer, the annual Freedom Festival will use the city as its stage once again, in a way it has never done before.
The festival programme has been revealed and tickets for the five incredible indoor shows are available to buy now.
Six years in the planning the Beverley Braves will soon be ready to move into their new home on Thurlow Avenue.
Chairperson of the club Neil Gay says the new facility will help them develop as a club. He also says having a base they can call home will benefit the young people in their ranks.
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Beverley racer Roger Donnan competed in last weekends Thruxton Motorsport Celebration.
Saturday saw qualifying where he achieved a time of 1min 22secs placing him sixteenth on the grid with the MCR S2 car.
Members from For Entrepreneurs Only have developed an exciting new series of breakout sessions for The Business Day at Bridlington Spa.
The new sessions will appeal to anyone who wants to know more about the risks and rewards of running a private sector business. Sessions will also help those who want to gain new ideas on how to grow and improve.
The 28 Day Survey is a new campaign to start conversations around women’s health issues – starting with the question, “what makes a happy period?”
Following suggestions at the Hull Health and Wellbeing Board that up to 3000 (or possibly more) women in Hull will struggle to afford sanitary products, NHS Hull Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and Hull City Council have agreed to research the issue locally and launch The 28 Day Survey.
This summer, Hull is heading back to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival as Absolutely Cultured’s Hull Independent Producer Initiative.
The Hull Independent Producers Initiative supports and develops Hull’s performing arts sector through training and mentoring. Also, it helps by championing emerging theatre companies living and working in the city.
Steamer Trading Beverley’s store is closing down just months after the business was saved by ProCook.
Located on Toll Gavel the closure of the store will leave a huge gap in the high street. The sad part this latest blow in Beverley’s Historic Core comes just weeks after The White Company opened.
League leaders Ince Rose Bridge strolled into town and demonstrated their title credentials. They combined a physical and aggressive defence with an adventurous attack.
Their efforts proved too much for Beverley who had to work hard to stay in touch at the Beverley Leisure Centre.
York Cricket Club beat Beverley Town Cricket Club by 81 runs at the Norwood Recreation Ground.
Beverley, however, can take many positives from the game both in the field and also with the bat. On another day this match could have swung their way
Dereck Hardman was presented with a certificate in acknowledgement for winning a ‘Points of Light Award’.
The incentive which originated in the USA recognises volunteers within the community. Launched in 2014 in the UK, the scheme sees the Prime Minister make an award each working day.
A nurse who has dedicated 36 years of her life to the NHS is planning to cycle from Land’s End to John O’Groats to raise £1,000 for sick children at Hull Royal Infirmary.
Barbara Joy, 55, is taking on the epic sponsored cycling challenge to raise funds for WISHH, the independent charity funding the redecoration of Ward 130 and the Children’s High Dependency Unit at Hull Royal Infirmary.
A date for the diary: Cottingham Food and Drink Festival returns to the East Yorkshire location on Sunday 15th September 2019 (10am to 5pm).
Returning for the seventh year running, the event will feature stalls in Market Green, King Street and Hallgate for this one-day foodie extravaganza.
Beverley’s glasses wearers have just a month left to express their specs style and be in with a chance of winning £10,000 cash.
Dance diva, Oti Mabuse, kicked off Specsavers’ Spectacle Wearer of the Year competition. They are encouraging glasses wearers to also submit their entries before the deadline of Sunday 30 June.
As today marks four months since 21-year-old University of Hull student Libby Squire went out with her friends and never returned home.
The Senior Investigating Officer on the case has definitively expressed the investigation “is still very much active” and has stated, “we will do all we can to get justice for Libby”.
Queensway Properties have completed the external rendering of Grade II listed Garden Village Shopping Centre, the UK’s first renovation project to receive approval for this type of work from local Councillors.
Following concerns the building was going to rack and ruin, directors of Queensway Properties have worked with local councillors to agree on a solution to overhaul parts of the external brickwork which had crumbled away, creating damp inside the property and leaving parts of it uninhabitable.
Local bus company East Yorkshire has transformed its summer seaside express service for 2019.
A popular service, the X21 from Hull and Beverley to Bridlington, Filey and Scarborough. Running daily throughout the summer it has been boosted by better vehicles and extra journeys.
Ennerdale Leisure Centre is to receive a £1.76million facelift, with working starting on site mid-July.
In order to prepare for the work, the centre will close to the public on Monday 1 July, however, a number of pre-planned swimming lessons and a gala will still take place up until Friday 14 July.