Local owner Keith Brown is optimistic Moonlit Sands can realise her true potential in the prestigious Hilary Needler Trophy at Beverley on Saturday (June 10).
Brown’s silks have in recent years become a standing dish at the well-attended East Yorkshire circuit, with the likes of Top Notch Tonto and Orewa having got off the mark at Beverley before going on to achieve great things.
The Albemarle Music Centre is celebrating Hull UK City of Culture 2017 by opening its doors so that people can enjoy, experience and learn music – some for the first time.
The workshops – part of Hull 2017’s Creative Communities Programme – are taking place on selected Saturdays throughout the year.
Drivers are to be asked for their help with a series of roadside surveys taking place in Beverley this month on behalf of East Riding of Yorkshire Council.
The surveys are being held to collect information on the journeys people make on the roads around Beverley and will take place between Tuesday 13 and Thursday 22 June.
The Tidal Waves beach music Festival in Bridlington this weekend (Friday 9 and Saturday 10 June) event has now added a second venue – The Spa Gardens, on Saturday.
The newly – announced schedule of music at the Spa Gardens on Saturday is:
Police are appealing for help to identify three men they would like to speak with in relation to a theft from electrical suppliers in Beverley.
Police say that an impact driver and hammer drill were from a store in Beverley and would like help to ID who were captured on CCTV as they look to try to recover the stolen property.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s annual compost giveaways enjoyed one of their most successful years yet – with 5,000 bags given away free to residents.
Ten giveaway events were held across the East Riding during May, in Market Weighton, Elloughton, Preston, Driffield, Beverley, Bridlington, Hornsea, Withernsea, Pocklington and Goole.
Expert shipping lawyer Gordon Sewell has taken his career a step further by joining Hull firm Williamsons Solicitors’ civil litigation department.
He will provide maritime law expertise along with civil litigation and defence advocacy after working for two other firms over the past 12 years. He is also targeting more commercial business.
The annual Care Home Games grand final was held at East Riding Leisure Beverley last week where older residents from the East Riding battled it out for the top prize.
The event was organised by East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s Sport, Play and Arts Service and enabled a total of 16 teams from care homes across the East Riding to compete in the grand final of the competition which saw players ranging in age from their late 60s to 102 years old, put their Boccia soft bowls skills to the test.
Participants in Hull’s Shared Lives scheme, where families care for an adult with a disability in their own home, have urged others to consider getting involved. Shared Lives is a chance for people to share their home with an adult who needs support and would otherwise be in residential care.
Those who become Shared Lives carers are carefully matched with the person they look after and receive full training and financial support. They also have access to the network of professionals behind Shared Lives, who provide practical help and advice at every stage of the process.
Two businessmen from Beverley say they have enjoyed a successful month since relocating from the town to Hull.
Leon Dawson and Harry Bignell who run Minster Car Co Prestige say the sales figures are a testament to the service they are offering customers.
Quiet Riot the monthly music night which ran in Beverley during 2015 returns to the town on Friday 9 June, coming back to a venue that was witness to many fantastic nights.
Quiet Riot- The Beverley Alternative brought fifty established acts from the Hull music scene to play at Hodgsons Pub and acts who played at the big local festivals such as Humber Street Sesh, Freedom Festival and Cottingham Springboard performed here on a monthly basis.
The Treasure House in Beverley will host a fascinating talk on Thursday 15 June at 6.30pm, when guest speaker Paul Brunyee will explore the links between Beverley and the Battle of Waterloo.
The battle of Waterloo and the Peninsular War resulted in a tremendous outpouring of writing both in letters and diaries.
At the first weekend in June, T Sport Racing attended the third round of the British Truck Racing Championship at the high-speed circuit in Thruxton near Andover.
On early Friday morning, the team was among the first ones to be all set for a great race weekend on UK´s fastest circuit. Due to noise restrictions, however, neither they nor anyone else were able to practice or test their set-up until Saturday morning.
Tom Dascombe will attempt to win the Hilary Needler Trophy for a second time if Formidable Kitt lines up at Beverley on Saturday (June 10).
The Cheshire handler savoured a red-letter day at the popular East Yorkshire circuit when Don’t Tell Mary claimed the historic sprint by four lengths in 2009.
Undeterred by last year’s inclement weather, organisers of an outdoor folk and acoustic music festival are planning a bumper event and hoping for brighter weather for the 2017 festival.
The second Folk in the Field festival takes place on June 24 at The Playing Fields, Station Road, Shiptonthorpe.
Denis Healy, The Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Candidate for Beverley & Holderness has issued a final statement ahead election.
Voters will go to the polls on 8 June as Mr. Healy, through his statement says that every vote for the Conservatives is a vote for the dementia tax, NHS cuts, sacked teachers and a bad Brexit.
From watching Eddi Reader in 2010 to performing as a main act on the same night as her in 2017, Sarah Shiels’ development and journey with Beverley Folk Festival is wonderful. You can read Sarah’s Beverley Folk Festival journey below:
“8 years ago I started my involvement with Beverley Folk Festival by watching Eddi Reader, who is for me, the most brilliant singer to come out of Scotland and probably the rest of the world.
Chatburn could confirm his place at Royal Ascot with a big run in the £25,000 Brian Yeardley Continental Two-Year-Old Trophy at Beverley on Saturday (June 10).
Prince Of Lir defeated The Last Lion by a length and a quarter in last season’s Brian Yeardley and the form was brilliantly franked at the Royal meeting as the same two horses finished first and second in the Norfolk Stakes.