Friday 13th July marks the opening night of this year’s eagerly awaited Beverley Puppet Festival with anyone who loves 1970s British horror and holiday camps set to be in for a treat.
Odd Doll Theatre will open the event with a retro-tastic comedy, Seaside Terror to give audiences fun frights and ice-cream chills!
East Riding of Yorkshire Council has confirmed that the bridge across the Dutch River at Rawcliffe Bridge, which has been closed to traffic since October, will reopen to cars only from Thursday 29 March.
The council has been carrying out work to determine what weight of vehicle can safely cross the bridge, and has decided it is now safe to reopen it to cars only, as measures have been put in place for them to use the bridge in a safe manner.
East Riding of Yorkshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), working in partnership with East Riding of Yorkshire Council is looking at ways to improve the lives of adults with autism in the East Riding.
A new draft Adults with Autism Strategy identifies a number of key areas for development. These include:
Residents and road users are being informed of an extension to an essential road closure which is required to permit work to be carried out on the £22million Anlaby and East Ella Flood Alleviation Scheme.
Contractors working for East Riding of Yorkshire Council are currently working to construct a new culvert underneath Beverley Road, near Anlaby.
HU17.net Magazine Issue 391 is out and availible to purchase from Moklescroft news on Woodhall Way.
This week’s issue features a selection of content including a team photo of Beverley Town’s PAN Disability Football Team and a round up of local news and the weekend’s sporting action.
Two open days will take place in Bridlington during the Easter holidays to encourage people with a disability or mobility issue to come along and access specially-adapted bicycles.
All Ride is an adapted bike scheme for people over the age of five which has been set up along the North Promenade in Bridlington. The scheme offers people with disabilities or mobility issues, as well as their family and carers, the opportunity to take part in cycling. All Ride is the only adapted cycling scheme of its kind in the East Riding.
Members of Beverley Building Society have voted for Age UK East Riding as their charity of the month for February.
Age UK East Riding picked up a prize of £250 which they will use to help fund their work they do in the community with vulnerable people.
Beverley RUFC kicked off in this top of the table clash at Beaver Park with both sides looking to pick up the points to consolidate their positions in second and third place respectively.
After 5 minutes a Scarborough forward was caught offside and Phil Duboulay kicked the resulting penalty (3-0).
Beverley Town Football Club manager Rich Jagger says he is pleased after his side beat East Riding Rangers 4-1 to move up to fourth in the Humber Premier League.
Jagger had called for his side to pick up where they left off last time out when they beat the current leaders Chalk Lane.
Beverley made it three wins from three and have gone top of the National Conference League after they beat Oldham St Annes to 25-14 at the Beverley Leisure Centre.
Tries from Alex Calvert, Trevor Penrose, Peter Starling (2) and drop goal from Lewis Straw ensured Beverley continued their perfect start to the new season, a record shared with just one other club.
A new exhibition opens at Sewerby Hall and Gardens on Saturday, 24 March : ‘Musical Memories – The World of Herman Darewski’ will take visitors back to the Bridlington of the 1920s and 1930s.
Herman Darewski’s band delighted the crowds at Bridlington Spa in that era, keeping holidaymakers out until after midnight, much to the annoyance of the landladies in the town.
Beverley Town Football Club return to Humber Premier League action this weekend as they welcome East Riding Rangers to Longcroft School.
Town boss Rich Jagger will be looking for his side to follow up on their recent win over league leaders Chalk Lane against a side who are bottom of the table.
A new eatery will open for business in June at the out of town retail park, Flemingate with centre manager Graham Tait saying it brings another food option to the centre.
Sumo Pan Asian will join a number of food outlets at the retail park that include Gourmet Burger Kitchen, The Firepit and Subway.
Happy Hounds in Beverley are celebrating three ‘Barking Good Years’ in business.
Happy Hounds, a luxury boarding kennels on Long Lane, Beverley was founded by Tracey Southern, who confessed she had some sleepless nights ahead of opening the business.
Leading equine experts from across Yorkshire are hooking up at a charity fundraising evening at the Conference Centre at Beverley Racecourse next week.
Coinciding with National Equestrian Safety Day, the inaugural Yorkshire Horse & Rider Safety Event will feature presentations from experts in different disciplines that impact on horse welfare and how a horse will perform in public.
With the 2018 Cheltenham Festival now in the books, attentions turn to the upcoming Grand National at Aintree. Run on Saturday 14th April this year, punters have known for some time they will have a new winner following 2017 champion One For Arthur’s early withdrawal due to injury.
Picking that winner is another matter, with players adopting all manner of strategies to beat the bookies. One tactic is doing the groundwork, reading the form and figures of each horse and coming to an educated decision.
Beverley has been awarded a top accolade at the British Coach Tourism Awards 2018, at a ceremony at the National Motorcycle Museum at the NEC Birmingham.
The town secured the coveted title of being the UK’s most coach friendly destination –seeing off stiff competition from Bournemouth, Burnham-on-Sea, Devon, Guildford, Otley and Wells.
East Riding Archives has received £30,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for an exciting project, ‘Trawling Through Time: The Story of Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Shipbuilders’, in Beverley, East Yorkshire.
Made possible by money raised by National Lottery players, the project focuses on making digital images and cataloguing historic trawler plans from the archive of the former local Beverley shipbuilders.