With less than a month until the record breaking Paul Roggeman European Open Beach Championship (EOBC), the world’s largest three-day beach angling festival, entries are reeling in.
The event, renamed in memory of its founder, celebrates its 24th birthday this year and will run from Friday, 24 to Sunday, 26 February, with an estimated 1,000 anglers returning to the East Yorkshire Coast, with its HQ at Sand Le Mere Holiday Village, hoping to reel in a share of £35,000 in prize funds.
East Riding Leisure South Holderness at Preston has introduced the STA (Swimming Teachers’ Association) International Learn to Swim Programme throughout its swimming lessons programme, including platinum awards for advanced swimming and junior lifeguard courses from Monday 23 January, 2017.
The new programme will be fun and exciting, and will help children and young people progress through levels and achieve, by virtue of their success tracker and Health and Wellbeing books.
Feeling the January blues? Why not give yourself something to look forward to by signing up to a daring abseil down one of the tallest buildings in the North on Sunday 21st May to raise money for the British Red Cross!
The Red Cross is looking for brave people from across Yorkshire to don their finest fancy dress and make their way down the side of a towering student accommodation building in the centre of Leeds to raise money to help people in crisis.
Residents are being offered exclusive market-leading rates* for home energy thanks to the power of collective energy switching.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council teamed up with technology partner iChoosr, the UK’s leading expert in collective energy switching, in 2013 and has been able to deliver savings of £3.5million so far for East Riding residents.
Official results published have confirm that Hull Trains continues to exceed customer satisfaction levels with the long-distance rail industry.
The independent National Rail Passenger Survey (NRPS) shows that Hull Trains has the highest ever satisfaction score recorded for any operator in the UK this decade.
Visitors at the Coletta and Tyson Garden Centre in Beverley and The Freedom Centre Hull were surprised by groups of over-60s performing Bollywood dance, tai chi and watercolour painting in the foyers, as part of Royal Voluntary Service’s volunteer recruitment drive.
Led by local instructors Sandra Thompson, Sheila Dickinson and Austin Holt, the classes were organised to demonstrate just a few of the activities residents in the area can get involved with, bringing more people together to have fun and create new friendships.
Clarence House has confirmed today that The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall will visit Hull on the 8 February as Hull celebrates its year as the UK City of Culture.
The tour will take in visits to the Ferens Art Gallery, Holy Trinity Church, the literacy charity First Story at The Deep and The Royal Shakespeare Company outreach programme at the Goodwin Development Trust.
A fitness project designed to increase levels of physical activity among pregnant women and new mums in Hull is hosting an event to celebrate its success and promote new and exciting sessions for 2017.
The Us Mums event takes place at Ennerdale Leisure Centre on Thursday 26 January from 11.30am – 2.30pm. New and expectant mums will have the chance to try a range of free taster sessions including Buggy Bootcamp, Yoga, pool party and Box Fit.
Finding the perfect family car can be a challenge – how can the kids be kept entertained? Is the price right? Does it cost much to run? Is there space for everything?
Fortunately, local Vauxhall retailer, Evans Halshaw, has the answer, thanks to Vauxhall’s latest Astra.
As plummeting overnight temperatures hit the region, local residents are encouraged to take simple steps to protect their health.
Night-time temperatures are set to dip below 0⁰C and it is likely that we will see several days of frost, fog and cold weather before the end of February.
In 2013, a band called Lau took to Beverley Folk Festival’s concert marquee stage and blew the audience away.
Whilst the event organisers hoped the group would be popular, they were astounded to see this venue full to capacity, with a strictly one-in-one-out policy such was the demand.
A low fog and cold temperatures made for a lovely morning on the Beverley Westwood. This collection of images taken with a drone show the low lying fog and other features of the Pasture.
Below each of the photographs there is a small description, low fog made for some interesting views of the town with some of the photos being taken from above the worst of the fog.
Better information from members of the public helped East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s dog wardens issue almost double the number of fixed penalty notices for dog fouling in 2016 than in 2015, figures have revealed.
In 2016, the council’s dog wardens issued 28 fixed penalty notices to owners who failed to clean up after their pets, compared to 11 in 2015.
Photos from the Hull Boys Sunday Football League featuring Beverley Whitestar Dragons who took on South Cave Sporting Tigers at Longcroft School.
South Cave Tigers, placed third in the table went into the match against an unbeaten Whitestar team who are currently top.
Residents who would like to recognise people and businesses that help make their community a better place to live have until the end of January to nominate them for an award.
People can now make nominations for the 2017 East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s Chairman’s Awards which are presented to individuals and businesses that have helped improve the area over the last year.
MP Graham Stuart has reacted to news that the latest figures published show that the number of reported crimes in the region has increased.
Office of National Statistics released last week revealed 13pc rise in reported over a twelve month period, September 2015 to 2016 with Police and Crime Commissioner Keith Hunter blaming lack of resources for the rise.
Humberside Police are taking part in a national incentive to tackle the issue of motorists using their mobile phones while at the wheel.
Switch Off Before You Drive Off aims to tackle the growing problem of people using their phones to call, text and even live stream their journey which they say is putting other road users at risk.
BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend is set to be one of the musical highlights of Hull UK City of Culture 2017 when it comes to Burton Constable in East Yorkshire on 27 and 28 May.
DJ Nick Grimshaw made the announcement that it would be coming to the area on this morning’s Radio 1 Breakfast Show.