Major improvements are on the way to East Riding Leisure Francis Scaife in Pocklington, with a £300,000 refurbishment of the Tone Zone gym and cycle studio, and the introduction of online booking.
The Tone Zone gym and cycle studio will be closed from Saturday 6 May. The Tone Zone will reopen on Monday 22 May, when it will incorporate a new TRX wall, which has already proved popular at East Riding Leisure Beverley and Goole.
Humberside Police are appealing to the public for help to locate two men who entered the home of an elderly couple and stole money.
A wedding breakfast with a twist in a church, a comic musical chase through the streets and a puppet show in a café are among the performances you can expect if you go to Newland Avenue this summer.
For one day only in Hull’s Newland Avenue, a theatre festival will transform the most unlikely of places into pop-up performance spaces. The avenue is set to come alive as flashmobs, interactive shows, music, art and dance erupt in a variety of the area’s independent venues.
A new independent business in Beverley say they just knew the town centre was the right choice for their new venture, The Modern Draper.
Owners Chris Terry and Lisa Brown started trading in Beverley’s Georgian Quarter at the start of April bringing their own unique and personal shopping experience to the town.
Beverley’s leading amateur rugby team has scored a big win for the season – successfully converting a sponsorship deal with the Potting Shed bar and gardens.
The Potting Shed bar and gardens has signed up to support next door neighbours Beverley ARLC, whose community ground adjoins the bar’s beer garden.
HU17.net Magazine Issue 344 is out and features a selection of content that has appeared on the HU17 web site.
This weeks issue includes an interview with Cosmo’s owner along with a roundup of the weekend’s sporting action that saw the cricket season get underway.
Claire Jacques, Business Development Manager at 360 Chartered Accountants, has been selected to be a mentor for the prestigious Cherie Blair Foundation for Women Mentoring programme.
The year-long mentorship, which starts in May, aims to support and empower women in developing and emerging markets so that they can set up and grow successful businesses.
Studio by Preen latest collections are now available at Debenhams in Beverley. The range consists of utility chic wardrobe essentials, with a focus on modern day separates alongside easy day dresses which take you easily from work to weekend.
Inspired by Preen’s signature prints and key shapes, the collection offers a mix of bold, primary colours sat back to monochrome prints and tones.
Staff at Sewerby Hall and Gardens are celebrating the fact that the venue has been validated as a Learning Destination by Scarborough Children’s University, supported by the University of Hull.
The accreditation means that Children’s University passport holders who visit Sewerby Hall and Gardens outside school hours can be awarded an hour for visiting the house itself; an hour for completing one of the trails; an hour if they take part in a drop –in activity; and an hour for visiting the zoo.
Fitmums and Friends, the Hull & East Riding based not-for-profit running club which aims to make sure everyone has equal opportunity to enjoy exercise, are inviting members of the public on a running & walking tour of some of Hull’s most famous City of Culture sights.
Local supporters of Christian Aid are appealing to people in Beverley to give generously ahead of Christian Aid Week.
Taking place in May, Christian Aid is a scheme that was set up some years ago to aid people who lost everything due to conflict.
VisitEngland, the national tourist board has announced the finalists for the Awards for Excellence 2017 with Burton Constable Hall & Grounds named as a finalist.
Working collaboratively with industry, VisitEngland’s Awards for Excellence celebrate the best in English tourism.
RICS Hull & East Yorkshire Local Association (HEYLA) is running its annual CPD event on Wednesday the 10 May at KCOM Stadium. The event is aimed at professionals in property who would like the opportunity to network with like-minded professionals over breakfast, training and lunch.
RICS aims to make these events inexpensive and informative and consisting of three sessions, such as CDM 2015, Dilapidations and Cost Reinstatement, to help attendees keep their skills and knowledge up to date, relevant, competent and competitive within their field of work.
Award-winning aerial acrobatics, stand-up comedy, poetry, interactive theatre, live music and sing along films are coming to the heart of Hull’s neighbourhoods for the second in a series of ground-breaking festivals.
Hull UK City of Culture 2017 has today announced the line-up of the hotly anticipated May half term Back To Ours (30 May to 4 June) ahead of the tickets going on sale next Thursday (27 April).
Hull Dance, the leading voice for professional dancers in the UK’s City of Culture, presents Transgression: Breaking the rules between Friday 12 and Sunday 14 May, with exceptional performances, insightful discussion and workshops from artists all well-known for breaking the rules.
From Internationally renowned New Art Club creating their usual brand of mayhem in the Guildhall’s council chamber to Colette Sadler’s Notebook Series, where she creates a conversation with her laptop.
A new mini guide, aimed at helping day visitors make the most of their trip to Bridlington, is now available.
The ‘Enjoy Bridlington’ guide includes information about various attractions in the town, including Bridlington Spa, Sewerby Hall and Gardens, John Bull’s World of Rock, Burton Agnes Hall, the Bayle Museum and Priory Church, details about sport and leisure activities like those offered by East Riding Leisure Bridlington and things to do on the heritage coast, such as tours of Flamborough Lighthouse or viewing the seabird colonies of RSPB Bempton.
After a bumper senior Pock 7s on Good Friday, the youngsters got in on the seven-a-side act at Percy Road on Sunday.
24 teams produced another six hour try feast in the Pocklington Junior Charity Sevens, sponsored by Agriyork 400, with Beverley coming through at the end of the day to finish Under 14 runners up.
Beverley Town Cricket Club players and supporters sometimes have to wait well in to the season before anyone reaches the magical three-figure mark but the 2017 season got off to a real bang over the weekend when two of their popular players made big hundreds. The 1st and 4th teams won their games but it was 2nd team player Brad Dobson who was the top run-maker when he registered his…