Johanna Boal from Beverley, has been selected as Labour’s Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for the Beverley and Holderness constituency for the General Election on 8 June.
Mrs Boal said she wants to restore hope to people’s lives that have been ruined by the ‘cynical and cruel Tories’ that she says have slashed spending locally.
James Westmoreland from Beverley competed in round three of the British Superbike Championship (BSB) on board the Gearlink Kawasaki ZX-10R around the Oulton Park International Circuit in Cheshire.
He will start from twentieth on the grid setting a time of 1min 36.4secs. As the lights went green for the first of the weekends two races ‘Westy’ had an average start and dropped two places off the start line.
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This weeks issue features a collection of content from the HU17.net web site and includes local news and a round up of the weekend’s sporting action.
Beverley Town Cricket Club were unlucky this weekend as they lost by one wicket to Sessay in the Hunters York & District Senior League Premier.
After losing the toss Beverley were put into bat at the Norwood Recreation Ground on a surface that was difficult to score on.
Monks Walk pub in Beverley is inviting readers to meet the authors of two very different local interest books on the same day.
On Wednesday May 10th the pub in Highgate will be welcoming Fleur & Colin Speakman, authors of the highly acclaimed new book ‘The Yorkshire Wolds – a Journey of Discovery’, which has a chapter on Beverley and John Phillips, author of: ‘Of a Fair Uniforme Making’ – a definitive history on the building of Beverley Minster.
The blue and golds clinched their first league points of the season in a penalty riddled encounter at the Leisure Centre last Saturday. Almost every technical offence appeared to prompt a blow of the whistle.
It was an important day off the field with club entertaining sponsors and Beverley did manage some well worked tries in between the stoppages to at least put on something of a show. Injuries to Billy Riby, Lewis and Josh Poskitt and the late withdrawal due to work of Ryan Anson forced Howdle to juggle the starting lineup. Lewis Campion started at full back, Ben Naylor on the wing, and Jack Humphries slotted into the halfs.
Ruth Carr will attempt to put the gloss on a memorable few days when golden oldie Dubai Dynamo runs at Beverley on Bank Holiday Monday.
The North Yorkshire handler is still on a high after Sovereign Debt provided Carr with a first Group-race winner from as many runners at Sandown on Friday.
A number of businesses in Beverley have been nominated for ‘Hull Life Style Award’ which was set up to celebrate business and the people that make Hull a great City.
Nominations from Beverley include The Kings Head Hotel, Mimi Boutique, TC Patisserie, Roots Rum Shack & Kitchen, BodyFlex Gym, Sessions Hair and Beauty Spa, Tickton Grange Hotel, Chequers Micropub, Cerutti 2 Beverley , The Potting Shed, Pipe and Glass, The Westwood, Hugh Rice Jewellers and Lempicka Café & Bistro .
One of the most well known land marks in the area, the Lord Line building stands, abandoned and derelict in St Andrew’s Dock in Hull.
Over year’s since moving to the area I have been interested in this building and have photographed it many times from the ground, though this time took some shots from above.
Beverley Racecourse has teamed up with celebrity chef Colin McGurran to make visiting the East Yorkshire venue an even more fabulous experience during the 2017 season.
In a first for a Northern racecourse, the partnership has seen the acclaimed chef create signature dishes to be enjoyed by race day diners in the popular The Attraction restaurant.
A popular Wednesday Market restaurant has made some major changes to their menu, adding new dishes that are designed to “reflect the seasons”.
Cosmos in Beverley have undertaken a tasty overhaul of their menu, including totally changing the children’s menu, adding pizzas and a new succulent mixed grill.
A mini farm will visit Hull’s Old Town this year as International Hanse Day returns for 2017.
Visitors to the event will have the chance to pet lambs, pigs and a goat whilst learning about livestock in the Middle Ages on Saturday 13 May.
Graham Stuart MP has received a welcome boost to his campaign for the EU to scrap its new regulation which prohibits the Holderness onshore fishermen from landing Sea Bass.
Graham met onshore fisherman Shaun Wingham and his wife Penny in Withernsea recently to hear about the impact of the new EU regulation which prohibits them from landing Sea Bass. Shaun and his colleagues fish using a net that is stretched out along the beach at low tide, allowing the catch to be brought in when the tide retreats again. Sea Bass is the most valuable part of their haul.
Calling all budding actresses! Fantastic opportunity for local young talent to play leading roles in sci-fi films being shot in Hull & Aarhus as part of an interactive art project for Hull UK City of Culture 2017
Are you up for a challenge and ready to take your next step in professional acting? The search is on for the best young acting talent Hull has to offer as a casting call launches for the leading roles in a series of sci-fi films being shot in the city.
Beverley ARLC could be missing Jake Hart-Fisher for their first home league game of the season as the player battles to recover from a toe infection.
Hart-Fisher says the infection was caused by an injury he sustained while playing though insists its on the mend and he is better now.
Campaigners will be meeting with Yorkshire Water representatives in Beverley tomorrow, Friday 28 April, amid concerns relating to planned improvements at Yorkshire Water’s sewerage works in Beverley.
The company are planning to build a temporary access road at an alleged cost of £0.5m in order to minimise disruption during forthcoming construction.
Could you be a foster carer? That is the question that will be asked by the East Riding fostering team during Foster Care Fortnight (8 to 21 May 2017)
The theme of Foster Care Fortnight is ‘foster care transforms lives’ and the team is urging people who are thinking about becoming foster carers to do it now.
Thousands of spectators are expected to line the streets of the East Riding on Friday, 28 April as the 2017 Tour de Yorkshire gets underway in Bridlington before passing through East Yorkshire and taking in Driffield and Pocklington for the first time.
The ceremonial start takes place outside Bridlington Spa, at 12.35pm, before the riders leave the town, passing by East Riding Leisure Bridlington and out via the A614.