Around 40,000 illegal cigarettes and 5kg of illegal tobacco have been seized in Hull. Enforcement officers from Hull City Council’s Trading Standards team used tobacco detection dogs to find the contraband.
Which was equivalent to around 2,000 packs of cigarettes and 100 pouches of tobacco – during intelligence-led inspections at a number of businesses in the West Hull area. Investigations are now underway.
The Burton Agnes Jazz & Blues Festival, which began in 2007, celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2017.
Performers included jazz’s great Claire Martin OBE and Ray Gelato, Mississippi native Lisa Mills, and Belfast Blues legend Kaz Hawkins. To crown the celebrations a link was made with the Caribbean Island nation of Saint Lucia.
MP Graham Stuart has welcomed news that NHS England has provided funds to the Clinical Commissioning Group to improve access to GP services by making more appointments available outside of normal opening hours.
Mr. Stuart says he often receives complaints from constituents that GP care is not currently available during the evenings and over the weekends.
Local travel consultant, Karl Douglas says has picked out what he thinks will be some of the most popular destinations for holiday makers this year.
In 2017 Brits spent almost £2.5 billion on overseas trips visiting destinations like Spain, Mexico and the United States of America.
Fame – The Musical is set to tour the UK in a stunning new 30th Anniversary tour including Bridlington Spa in October 2018.
Based on the 1980 phenomenal pop culture film, Fame The Musical is the international smash hit sensation following the lives of students at New York’s High School For The Performing Arts as they navigate their way through the highs and lows, the romances and the heartbreaks and the ultimate elation of life.
Sales of vinyl records in the UK enjoyed another top year with purchases in 2017 reaching their highest levels since the early 90s.
Vinyl now accounts for 3pc of all music sales with consumers in the UK buying a staggering 4.1 million vinyl records in 2017, with Ed Sheeran topping the sales charts.
Successful independent transport planning and traffic engineering business, Local Transport Projects (LTP) is opening a new office in Manchester to complement its existing base in Beverley, East Yorkshire.
LTP specialises in transport/development planning, traffic engineering and highway design services, and works throughout the UK, with 20 staff currently based at its Beverley office. It serves the residential, commercial, health and retail sectors as part of the planning process as well as holding framework contracts with various local authorities and other public bodies.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s public health team is supporting the annual ‘Act F.A.S.T.’ stroke campaign to empower people to call 999 at any sign of a stroke.
Public Health England, working closely with the Stroke Association, will re-launch the national campaign on 1 February.
Residents in the Beverley area with a keen eye for photography are being invited to capture an award-winning image of the Humber Bridge.
The #YourBridge project, run in association with Hilton Photographic, Hull, and London Camera Exchange, Lincoln High Street, is running throughout 2018, is open to photographers of all abilities, and each month features different theme.
HU17.net Magazine Issue 382 is out and available from Molescroft News on Woodhall Way.
This week’s issues features a selection of content that has appeared on the HU17.net web site including a roundup of local news and sport.
The new exhibition ‘Ted Lewis: Novelist, Artist and Jazz Musician’ is currently on display in the Community Exhibitions space at the Treasure House in Beverley.
To accompany the exhibition, there will be an Open Afternoon on Saturday, 3 March, from 1pm to 3pm in the Education Room.
Beverley Town Football Club youngest members showed off their now playing strip ahead of the new season this weekend at the Beverley Leisure Centre.
Beverley Town Moles and Beverley Town Saints will take part in the Hull Boys Sunday Football League competing against other sides in the U7s age group.
Beverley Town Reserves hosted Holme Rovers in the East Riding County League however the game was abandoned in the first half due to a serious injury to Town’s Tom Proud.
Proud found himself on the wrong end of an awful tackle that left him serious damage to his leg with fears at first it was broken.
Beverley Town boss Rich Jagger says his sides first half performance was not acceptable as Town were beaten 3-0 by South Cave United.
Town went into the match looking to maintain their unbeaten run only to come unstuck that also saw their fox in the box Matty Littlefield given a straight red card.
Scott Taylor says he was very happy with the his side after Beverley ARLC got their preseason underway taking on Myton Warriors in a pre-season friendly.
Beverley put on a good show despite going down 34-18 in a match that was always going to be a big test for Taylor and his players.
Hull-based business Land of Green Ginger Design has teamed up with three other central Hull media businesses to offer new, unique ‘Presenting to Camera’ courses.
The courses will introduce positive and practical methods in how to present whether that’s standing in front of a camera or presenting to three, 300 or 1,000 people.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council has announced that its hugely popular Active Coast programme will return in 2018.
Launched at Easter 2017, the council’s Active Coast programme provided over 100 organised events and activities, and involved over 14,000 participants.
East Riding residents are being given the chance to have their say on plans to improve access to GP services in the region by making more appointments available outside of normal GP practice opening hours.
NHS East Riding of Yorkshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is looking to use funding from NHS England to offer additional appointments from 2019 and is running a short survey to help shape what this may look like.