The Summer of Fun at Sewerby Hall and Gardens is here, with a varied programme of fun activities and events throughout the school holidays running till Friday, 31 August.
Highlights of the Summer of Fun will include Yorkshire Day on Wednesday 1 August, from 11am to 3pm with a spectacular celebration of all things Yorkshire.
Mayor of Beverley, Cllr Bryan Pearson has thanked all those involved with brightening Beverley up as the town prepares for the visit of Britain in Bloom Judges.
Cllr Pearson, who himself has rolled up his sleeves and got his hands dirty also called for people in the town to make one last push ahead of the judge’s visit.
East Riding College and East Riding of Yorkshire Council have collaborated with local employers to develop a new civil engineering course.
Organisations have identified a gap in local provision of higher-level HNC qualifications in construction and civil engineering. Nationally, there is a shortage of workers in construction and civil engineering qualified at higher levels.
Definitely one for the diary is Cottingham Food and Drink Festival, returning to the East Yorkshire location on Sunday 16th September 2018 (10am to 5pm).
Returning for the sixth year running, the event will feature stalls in Market Green, King Street and Hallgate for this one-day foodie extravaganza.
Temporary pavement signs are to be installed at opposite ends of the centre of Beverley as a trial to encourage visitors to make the most of their time in the historic market town.
Known as roundels, the circular markers will display directions and distance information and will be located between North Bar Within and Saturday Market, and between Wednesday Market and the Flemingate centre, via Beverley Train Station.
Once again Beverley Town Cricket Club had three wins last weekend with the 1st, 2nd and 4th XIs all recording impressive wins, losing a total of only ten wickets in the process.
Beverley record wins against Malton & Old Malton, Sewerby and Gilberdyke on what proved to be a very successful day for the club.
Hundreds of runners descended on the village of Walkington to tackle the challenging course of the Walkington 10k and Family Fun Run in very warm conditions.
With the main event seeing 515 finishers, the top prize went to Jonathan Carter of Tipton Harriers, who was first home in a time of 32 minutes, 44 seconds.
It was a busy weekend for round six of the British Superbike Championship held on the famous Brands Hatch GP circuit for Beverley racers, Jordan Rushby (Pirelli National Superstock 1000 Championship-SSK1000) James Westmoreland (Dickies British Supersport Championship), and Sam Christie (Rider) and Adam Christie (Passenger) (Hyundai British Sidecar Championship).
AEDdonate are the latest group to win £2,000 in the Tesco March/April Bags of Help customer vote. Shoppers at the Morton Lane store voted for the project called ‘Defibrillators for Beverley’ .
The defibrillator is to be sited at the Game Bird Public House on Holme Church Lane, Beverley and Tesco recently visited the pub to make the cheque presentation.
Brough’s Terry Gibbon participated in the fourth round of the 2018 British Truck Racing Championship at Donington Park – the closest circuit to the team’s home driving T Sport Racing’s MAN.
“Convoy in the Park“, a massive show truck exhibition formed part of the event. Thousands of spectators attending the two-day event had plenty to see and do: there were 10 truck races – divided into two classes – as well as trade stands, a kids fun fair and an action arena including caravan smashing.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council is holding a consultation today in Beverley with regard to a new Older People’s Housing Strategy.
The council say their new strategy explores the different housing opportunities available for older people and will seek to try to meet their choices and preferences.
Players from the Humber Colts junior section enjoyed a curry as they held their presentation night at Maa Indian Restaurant in Beverley.
Coach Phil Matthews held the event at the town centre curry as Maa Indian along with JC Landscapes sponsor the side who finished runners up in their league.
HU17.net Magazine Issue 407 is out and is available to purchase from Molescroft News on Woodhall Way in Beverley.
This week’s issues features a selection of content including local news and round up of the sporting action from the weekend.
A microbrewery in Hull is adding a bit of fizz to the menu at Trinity Market.
Fellows and Vittle is developing a range of ales to compliment the wide range of food on offer after the market was granted a licence to serve alcohol.
Beverley Racecourse is hosting raceday tea parties to help combat loneliness and isolation among older people.
The racecourse has teamed up with Contact the Elderly, a charity which organises monthly tea parties to ease acute loneliness among older people, aged 75 and above, who live on their own.
Following the announcement that the council has secured £40 million from the Department for Transport towards a major highway improvement scheme on the A164 and at Jock’s Lodge junction, the next stage of the scheme’s development includes investigatory work which will feed into the detailed scheme design.
The next phase of this work is based on assessing the highway drainage. This work will start on the evening of Monday, 23 July at Castle Hill Roundabout, Cottingham, working along the A164 northwards to Lincoln Way Roundabout, Beverley.
A partnership of 129 between Tony Spence (56) and Olly Grantham (76) set Beverley Town Cricket Club on the way to a 114 runs victory over strugglers Sewerby at the Norwood Recreation Ground.
Beverley scored a total of 272-4 also included 33 from Rob Fish whilst Tom Norton (49no) just missed out on a half-century.
Beverley ARLC are just one win away from being crowned champions after they made three wins from three beating Waterhead Warriors 44-22 on Saturday.
Once again Beverley were made to work for the win though gaffer Scott Taylor praised his side for their clinical finishing on a day when the most important thing was securing the win.