East Riding of Yorkshire Council staff are helping residents to get online as part of a two week campaign that includes drop-in sessions at multi-service centres (MSCs) in Brough, Driffield, Haltemprice, Hessle, Pocklington and Withernsea.
Be Online encourages people to use more online self-service facilities and access websites such as Learn My Way to improve digital skills with free online courses. These include online basics and safety, finding work online and CV writing.
Organisers of Flem’s Fight Night say they are grateful for the support they have received from the residents and businesses in Beverley.
Following the sad loss of local man Paul Fleming, his friends have pulled together to raise money for his wife and two children.
Schools and local football teams in the Hull and Beverley area are being urged to Club Together in support of grassroots football teams.
Topps, the UK’s leading collectibles company is offering youngsters in the area the chance to win a training day with Premier League and Manchester City superstar, Kevin De Bruyne, a Premier League Manager (past or present) and a week-long adventure holiday camp as part of its annual Club Together competition.
Beverley ARLC showed off their new kit ahead of their 40/20 cup clash with the Hull Knights.
Before the game squad members and the management team presented Matthew Bordewijk, manager of The Potting Shed, with a gift following their sponsorship.
Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s award winning play “The Night Season”, (originally staged at the National Theatre in London), opened at Beverley’s East Riding Theatre on March 2nd and runs until Saturday 25th of March.
It is a personal favourite of the theatre’s new artistic director Adrian Rawlins, making his directorial debut at the ERT in this astonishing and beautifully conceived, staged and acted production.
Photos from the dress rehearsal where pupils from Beverley Minster Primary School were putting the final touches to their annual production Aladdin.
Taking place at Beverley Grammar School the pupils from Minster Primary will perform their colourful production over three days later in the week.
Between 2005 and 2014, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) claimed the lives of 266 babies in the Yorkshire and Humber regions.
Health professionals in Hull are urging parents to make themselves aware of safe sleeping practices.
Sewerby Hall and Gardens have three weeks of family fun activities planned for the Easter holidays.
Between Saturday, 1 and Sunday, 23 April, there are plenty of activities and events planned for visitors young and old alike.
The word culture is on everyone’s lips in this Hull2017 City of Culture year; now culture will be served up on a plate, too, in one of the region’s social highlights of the year, the Remarkable East Yorkshire Tourism Awards, the REYTAs.
A number of local businesses from Bevelrey in running for an award including Lempicka Cafe & Bistro, who are based at Wednesday Market and Butt Farm Caravan & Campsite, who are eyeing up the Best Newcomer Award.
Step up to the fashion floorspace and give your staircase the wow factor with a brand new carpet this spring, an area of the home often overlooked.
According to Beverley Carpets, stairways are often not given the full attention they deserve, despite the fact that in many homes it’s the first thing people see when they walk in the door.
After raising over £500 for the Hull and East Riding Institute for the Blind, 360 Chartered Accountants are now inviting other companies to follow their lead.
The team at 360 was charged with turning £50 into £500 as part of HERIB’s Challenge 500. And by using their entrepreneurial skills they did exactly that!
New hope for men with advanced prostate cancer
Dr. Daniel Diaz-Garcia, who was awarded his doctorate from the University of Nuevo Leon in Mexico, is currently visiting the research laboratory of Beverley cancer scientist Dr. Justin Sturge at The University of Hull.
A free workshop training session will be held on Friday, 31 March for people wanting to learn about oral history.
This is one of the activities offered through the Bridlington Quay Townscape Heritage project, which is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund. The session will take place at King Street Library, from 10am-4.30pm.
Humberside Police are teaming up British Transport Police and other local partners as part of a campaign to raise awareness about child sexual exploitation and identify children at risk.
As of Wednesday 15 March officers from both forces will be taking the opportunity to educate young people in stations with information about the signs and risks, in the hope that this will arm them with the knowledge to protect themselves from being susceptible to the risk of grooming.
The first of four exhibitions has opened showcasing work created as part of Hidden Voices, an initiative aimed to unlock the voices and creative talents of the 60 homeless people living rough on the streets of Hull who are fed twice a week by St Mary’s Church in Lowgate, will open.
Hidden Voices is one of 60 new projects to receive funding through the Hull 2017 Creative Communities Programme, which is being delivered in partnership with the Big Lottery Fund.
A former retail manager who stole £89,000 from The Deep to fund his gambling addiction has been ordered to pay back more than £60,000 to the charity.
Jason Metcalfe, 45, of Hamlyn Avenue, Hull, stole the cash from two ‘penny press’ machines and put fake refunds through the tills of the gift shop.
Beverley Folk festival is promising big changes at their 2017 event promising their ‘biggest and best festival ever’.
In 2016 the festival introduced a ‘Big Top’ style marquee for their popular Concert Stage and now in 2017 they plan to introduce another Big Top for their Main Stage as well.
Work being carried out to support unpaid carers in the East Riding and the resources available to help them in their caring roles is due to be discussed by the area’s Health and Wellbeing Board.
In 2011 there were over 37,000 carers providing one or more hours of unpaid care per week in the East Riding, 8,500 of whom were providing 50 hours or more of care.