East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s Business Investment and Tourism Services have secured Customer First accreditation – the UK’s national standard for customer service.
Although the council’s business services team has held the prestigious award for a number of years, the most recent assessment – carried out over two days – was the first time that the authority’s inward investment, Greenport business support, tourism and events teams were also included.
Beverley and Holderness MP, Graham Stuart, has given his strong backing to Tesco’s Bags of Help scheme and has urged residents to nominate local projects that can benefit from their plastic bag charges fund.
On Tuesday 23 January Beverley Tesco is hosting a ‘Meet the Funder Day’, where sports clubs, community groups and schools will have the chance to meet charity representatives from Groundwork – who are administering the Bags of Help scheme in partnership with Tesco.
Royal Flying Corps playing cards are on display at the Treasure House in Beverley, marking the 100th Anniversary year of the Royal Air Force.
The RAF was formed towards the end of World War I in April 1918 by merging the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service.
Beverley ARLC return to action this weekend for the first time since they contested the Yorkshire Men’s League Grand Final way back in September of last year.
Their game on Saturday will be the first of three pre-season friendlies against NCL opposition and the toughest, being against Premier Division outfit Myton Warriors.
St Mary’s Primary school say their Active Travel Breakfast was a huge success and given it popularity they had to hold it over two mornings.
An annual event at the school, the Active Travel Breakfast is part of wider incentive to encourage young people to lead healthier lifestyle.
Beverley Garland Dancers will be holding free taster sessions in February as they look to give people a chance to try out Morris dancing.
The group say no experience is needed, they hope people will come along and bring with them some enthusiasm coupled with a desire to have fun and stay fit and try out clog Morris dancing.
A keen amateur photographer from East Yorkshire has become the first winner of #YourBridge – a competition seeking to discover the best images of the Humber Bridge.
Mark Thompson, an IT worker with Hull-based communications company, KCOM, was voted January’s winner by staff at the Humber Bridge, for a spectacular picture of the sun rising behind the Bridge.
Councillor Denis Healy will be continuing his support for Beverley Street Angels, the volunteer group that helps keep people safe in the town centre on weekend evenings, when he joins them on patrol in Beverley this coming Saturday night.
Cllr Healy spent a January Saturday night with the Street Angels a year ago, and on Saturday he will be donning his high vis jacket again to highlight the importance of the work undertaken by the Street Angels volunteers in the town.
Residents of Hull and East Yorkshire are invited to get involved in an exciting social history exhibition, coming soon to the Treasure House in Beverley.
The exhibition Our Histories Revealed, which will open in May, 2018, is part of the wider project Africans in Hull and East Yorkshire, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Residents in Hull are being given the chance to have their say on plans to improve access to GP services. These proposals would make more appointments available outside of normal GP practice opening hours.
NHS Hull Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is to use funding from NHS England to offer additional appointments in the evenings and over weekends. If these plans go ahead the extra provision would be available from 2019.
Bosses of the troubled retailer Debenhams have purchased shares as they look to stop the rot and show faith in the business.
Debenhams, who trade in the out of town retail park, Flemingate in Beverley issued a profit warning while adding they plan to accelerate job cuts and store closures.
During 2017 – 19, former Opera North cellist Miriam Roycroft, and Lance Coburn, are performing the entire repertoire for cello and piano by Bohuslav Martinů.
Performances are taking place at selected venues throughout Ireland, and are delighted to present some of these enticing and rarely-heard compositions in Beverley on Thursday, 15 February at 7.30pm at Toll Gavel United Church.
Two local women are encouraging East Riding residents to take their cervical screening test when it is offered, and not to be embarrassed for the sake of their health.
With Cervical Cancer Prevention Week taking place from 22-28 January, East Riding residents are being urged to take up their cervical screening invitations after statistics showed that one in five women fail to book and attend their smear tests. That’s 20% who are throwing away the chance to detect the changes that could lead to cervical cancer and could be treated at an early stage.
Beverley and Holderness MP, Graham Stuart, welcomes the news that the Business Secretary, Greg Clark, has pledged to secure the future of the Post Office through £370 million of funding.
Funding will be used towards helping branches to extend opening hours, cut queue times and protect rural branches like the one in Cliff Road, Hornsea, which is re-opened with a temporary postmaster in place while a permanent replacement is sought.
Supporters of the Minsters Rail Campaign are questioning the priorities of East Riding of Yorkshire Council after they ‘wrecked’ hopes of saying the region is open for Rail Expansion projects.
Cllr Peter Hemmerman, Market Weighton Town Councillor and Chairman of Minsters Rail Campaign says that Conservative Councillors instead voted on the focus of the council being put into roads and flood defence.
HU17.net Magazine Issue 381 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, sport, travel and politics.
Anyone who’s seen Tom Cruise’s film Minority Report will be familiar with the futuristic predictions it makes for a world characterised by boundless technological possibility.
Strange to say, then, that one Hull company is working with the giants of international gaming and software development to turn some of what it foresaw into reality.
There are still some tickets available for a rare opportunity to see two world class orchestras joining forces at Bridlington Spa this month.
Manchester Camerata and Sinfonia Viva will be getting together for a New Year’s concert with a difference – the orchestral extravaganza will be performed at Bridlington Spa on Sunday, 28 January, at 2pm.