Public Health England (PHE) and the NHS’s joint Stay Well This Winter campaign has launched with the national flu vaccination programme, now available nationwide to all eligible people.
Last year in Yorkshire and the Humber, 38% of children aged 2-4 years were vaccinated, with children also offered the vaccine in school years 1, 2 and 3. The vaccine was also administered to 48% of people in at-risk groups and 72% of people aged 65 or older. Uptake by pregnant women nationally was 45%.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s Cabinet has approved free parking for the four weekends in December running up to Christmas.
The popular scheme, which the council has run for the past eight years, will apply to all council-run on-street and off-street car parks.
A visit to this fascinating country house at Christmas is the perfect chance to lift your spirits for the festive season ahead.
Meander upstairs and downstairs through 30 evocative rooms filled with fine art and furniture that will be transformed with seasonal floral displays, stunning decorations and garlands.
Bonfire Night will be going with a bang at the Potting Shed thanks to a fabulous professional fireworks display and a bonfire for customers to burn their own Guys on!
The bar will be lighting up the skies over Flemingate with two spectacular fireworks shows, starting at 8pm and 9pm, and offering free sparklers to anyone who wants to create their own mini version.
In November, The Treasure House Museum and Beverley Art Gallery are launching sessions for children under 5 and their families.
These will take place on four Thursday afternoons – 9, 16, 23 and 30 November, from 1:30-2:30pm in the Education Room.
Beverley Town Cricket Club is bidding to bag a massive cash boost from the Tesco Bags of Help initiative.
Tesco teamed up with Groundwork to launch its community funding scheme, which sees grants of £4,000, £2,000 and £1,000 – raised from carrier bag sales in Tesco stores – being awarded to local community projects.
Phoenix Dance Theatre will present their 2017 Mixed Programme at Bridlington Spa on Tuesday, 7 November, at 7.30pm.
They present a thrilling programme of work demonstrating the company’s internationally respected athletic power, emotional intensity and dynamic movement, including work by Douglas Thorpe, Aletta Collins and a new commission by Sandrine Monin, Calyx.
Campaigners opposed to changes to Sheltered Housing provision have been bolstered over the weekend with news that opposition to Council proposals is growing.
The consultation with residents closes tomorrow with those who are against the plans say residents through the East Riding are voicing their concerns.
Pupils at a primary school in Hull are a step closer to understanding what to do in a flood following a visit from the Environment Agency.
Year five students at Stoneferry Primary School took part in an interactive workshop where they engaged in a range of flood-related activities where they were taught which household objects can be the most useful in a flood and saw them using a geographic model to better understand how rivers flow.
HU17.net Magazine Issue 371 is out and available to purchase from Molescroft News on Woodhall Way.
This week’s issues includes photos from the Youth in Brass Concert, Masquerade Ball @ Lazaat Hotel and the Beverley Blues Weekender.
Beverley Town Football Club travelled to league leaders Reckitts on the back of two wins and full of confidence.
Conditions were similar to the previous week, with a strong wind blowing straight down the pitch. Eric Gardham and Tom Davies returned to the side to make up a back 3 with Kurtis Bedford, apart from that Town were unchanged.
Bradford Salem started this match in a manner which belied their lowly league position and Beverley were put under extreme pressure for the opening 10 minutes.
Bradford’s forwards were swarming all over them, albeit usually from suspiciously looking offside positions, and they were unable to escape from their own 22 and hold onto the ball for long.
The region’s most eclectic music festival is on a roll … having already announced that Stage4Beverley had responded to demand by adding an extra day for its 2018 festival, the organisers have done it again, with news that the event will now stretch over five days.
The festival will once again be based at Beverley’s East Riding Theatre, taking over the theatre from February 14th to the 18th, with a line-up bridging diverse musical genres, from folk to blues, jazz to classical, Americana to world music and more.
Photos from the Masquerade Ball that was held at Lazaat Hotel in aid of Action Duchenne.
The event also saw two ladies kiss goodbye to their hair as Christine Gibbon and Caroline North had their heads shaved to raise money for the charity.
Photos from the concert held by Beverley Church Lads and Church Girls Brigade at St Mary’s Church in Beverley.
Raising money for a charity that supports those who suffer Alzheimer’s the band were joined by three other groups in what was a superb, and at times, interactive concert.
Photos from the Beverley Braves presentation evening with guest, Liam Watts of Hull FC at the Beverley Memorial Hall.
Players of the Braves were acknowledged for their achievements and commitment to the club receiving their awards from Hull FC’s Liam Watts.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council and BAM Construction have been shortlisted in the best public service building category at this year’s Local Authority Building Control (LABC) Awards for Building Excellence.
The council’s building control and project and design management teams, working alongside BAM Construction, have been selected as a finalist for the impressive work undertaken on the new £25 million East Riding Leisure Bridlington development.
Bethan Willoughby, a stylist at De Lacy Spa in Beverley has raised over £1,500 for the charity Hull & East Yorkshire Mind by having her head shaved.
Her fund raising efforts were beamed live through the social media platform Facebook with thousands of viewers tuning in to watch as she had her hair shaved off.