Hull is setting its sights on becoming a skateboarding friendly city and Hull City Council will officially launch the project next week.
It is hoped that following the significant investment by the Council recently into the 10 new skateboarding facilities in the city’s parks, a wider skateboarding legacy can be created
If you are still stuck for ideas this Christmas then you could do worse than to visit the award winning Christmas Festival of Food and Drink.
Taking place this Saturday at Beverley Minster the Christmas Festival of Food and Drink which won East Yorkshire Local Food Network, Best Food and Drink event 2016 brings together a range of local stalls selling
New electrical power points and street lighting in the pedestrian precinct of Goole is now complete, thanks to £8,760 from East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s High Street Fund.
Power Up the Precinct is a project by Goole Town Council, working with Business in Goole (BIG), and complements the Goole Portas funded urban realm works, town centre seating though the Renaissance Small Projects Fund….
Beverley and Hull based chartered accountant, Tracy Hutty director of cbaSadofskys has completed the challenge of trekking the Great Wall of China, exceeding her target raising over £4,000 for Alzheimer’s Society.
The trek involved six days trekking the contours of hills and mountains on remote sections of the 13,000 mile long Wall, taking in historical sites of the Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square and Beijing.
Beverley Minster will once again be illuminated green in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support on Tuesday 6 December for the charity’s annual Christmas carol concert.
The concert marks the start of the Christmas festivities for many local people and will feature an evening of entertainment with a host of musicians, singers and readers, including the Bishop of Hull
Open Art 2016 opens at Beverley Art Gallery on Saturday 26 November. The annual exhibition invites entries from all artists, amateur or professional, living in the East Riding of Yorkshire or Hull.
It will be officially launched by Councillor Caroline Fox, Vice Chairman of East Riding of Yorkshire Council.
East Riding residents are being urged to be cautious and to think where they are buying from as they search for bargains in the run up to Christmas.
The warning comes from East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s trading standards officers as retailers gear up for Black Friday, which this year will take place on Friday, 25 November
Sewerby Hall and Gardens has begun its search for talented children with its annual design a flower bed competition, of which the closing date is Friday, 31 March 2017.
To coincide with one of the house exhibitions and as a reminder of Sewerby Hall and Gardens’ unique location, the theme for the competition is ‘Beside the Seaside’.
Beverley and Holderness MP Graham Stuart is pushing for a fair deal for blue badge clock users with his constituent Katrina Gardner – an active thalidomide campaigner.
Ms Gardner, of Sproatley, is one of many thalidomides who are able to drive without use of their arms and has qualified for the Government’s Blue Badge scheme
More details have been released today about what to expect at Made in Hull, which will kick off Hull UK City of Culture 2017.
Everyone is invited to this landmark event, which is free and will run from Sunday 1 until Saturday 7 January.
360 Chartered Accountants has appointed a new business development manager, coinciding with the firm’s launch of its third office in Hull.
Claire Jacques, formerly MD at Intrasource Limited, has over 15 years’ experience in senior sales/marketing and business development
A coach campaign launched by Visit Hull & East Yorkshire (VHEY) to attract visitors to Beverley will be extended for another 12 months after helping raise the profile of the town and increase bookings by 30%.
The campaign was a finalist in two categories, Coach Tourism Innovation and Coach Friendly Destination, at the National Coach Tourism Awards 2016 and was praised by judges.
Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman have long established themselves as one of the UK folk scene’s most rewardingly enduring partnerships.
Twice recent winners of the BBC Radio 2 Folk Award for Best Duo – 2016 & 2013 – the couple’s intimacy and strength of passion on stage have won them many fans and an enviable reputation
HU17.net Magazine Issue 324 is out and features a selection of content from the HU17.net Web Site. The magazine can be purchased from Molescroft News, Woodhall Way.
During 2010, a huge project began to digitise 650 million newspaper articles on to 40 million web pages currently held by the British Library.
Users of private home computers wishing to access the British Library newspaper archive pay an annual fee of either £6.95 for 48 hour access
Visitors to Flemingate gasped in delight as Santa and his trusty elves opened the doors to the area’s newest and biggest Christmas grotto in the area.
Scores of families attended the first day of the Flemingate grotto on Saturday following a preview evening last Thursday, at which the Mayor of Beverley, Councillor Rob Begnett,
With 8,000 people expected to visit Beverley Minster this Saturday for the Christmas Festival of Food and Drink, what can they expect from the event that is now in its fifth year.
Beverley Town Council who organise it have pulled out all the stops to ensure that for people attending there will be more new stalls and also additional entertainment.
A new exhibition opens at the Beverley Guildhall on Friday 25 November, showing the results of the recent competition to capture “the essence of Beverley” in photographs.
The exhibition, called “Capturing Beverley”, contains over 100 beautiful images that were submitted to the Guildhall website over the past year. The Capturing Beverley exhibition runs until 24 February, 2017