MP Graham Stuart has responded to claims that he and fellow Conservative MPs voted against measures to prevent untreated sewage from being released across the East Riding of Yorkshire.
Members of an outdoor swimming group in Hornsea, who are using an app to monitor the quality of the water they swim in on any given day, have contacted the local MP to raise their concerns.
A Hull teacher who survived two brain tumours scoops £65,000 on an Irish Lottery bet.
Nina Curran started playing Lucky Clover an Irish Lottery Pool bet from The Football Pools after a second brain surgery in July 2019.
The best-dressed ghosts and ghouls in Hull will be rewarded with a free game of golf this weekend at Lost City Adventure Golf.
On Saturday 30 and Sunday 31 October the team at Lost City will be on the lookout for spooktacularly attired golfers and those whose Halloween fancy dress creations make the biggest impression will receive a free 18-hole round of adventure golf.
The 2020 winner of the hit television show Britain’s Got Talent is heading to Beverley’s Flemingate centre to kickstart Christmas.
Comedian and musician Jon Courtenay, who was crowned the 14th winner of the popular ITV series last year, will make a special appearance at Flemingate’s Christmas lights switch-on on Friday, November 19.
The prospect of home ownership has been made much more accessible for prospective buyers in Beverley thanks to the launch of a brand new low deposit mortgage scheme at a popular development of new homes in the area.
Deposit Unlock is a new mortgage lending scheme offered by housebuilders Barratt Homes and David Wilson Homes on properties including Queens Court and Minster View in Beverley.
The Freemasons have signed the Armed Forces Covenant during a ceremony at Freemasons’ Hall in Covent Garden led by His Royal Highness, The Duke of Kent.
The partnership aims to support members of the Armed Forces community and ensure they have the same access to government as well as commercial services and products as any other citizen.
A Night Upstairs With Barrie Rutter, November 14th, 7.30pm at the Wrecking Ball Arts Centre, Wrecking Ball Music & Books.
Barrie Rutter’s last appearance in public was in January 2020 at Hull Truck, sharing the stage with his friend and colleague Eliza Carthy. The audience was unaware that two days previously he had been diagnosed with throat cancer.
Thousands of residents and businesses across North Yorkshire will be kept up to speed on plans to provide them with ultrafast broadband connectivity, with the launch of a new online information hub.
The new website, ‘Connected Yorkshire’, forms part of the development of the county’s digital infrastructure, which will see broadband specialist Quickline Communications installing OFCOM ultrafast internet access in North Yorkshire’s remotest locations.
Dove House Hospice is launching an urgent appeal for stock.
Since reopening in December 2020, Dove House’s shops were inundated with donations but donations have now slowed and the shops are running extremely low on stock.
Victory Leisure Homes, the luxury holiday homes manufacturer based in East Yorkshire, joins some of Britain’s top manufacturing companies to be shortlisted in this year’s Manufacturer MX Awards 2021.
Victory, which has trebled its production in the past 18 months, has been shortlisted in the Product Innovation & Design category for the very first time.
The UK’s No. 1 homewares retailer, Dunelm, is coming to Beverley’s Flemingate centre.
Dunelm is bringing its new superstore format to Flemingate and will take over the former Debenhams department store to become the centre’s new anchor operator.
Since relaunching the Love Your High Street fund in April 2020, East Riding of Yorkshire Council has helped more businesses, local town/parish councils and organisations by offering grants of up to £10,000 (subject to meeting the eligibility criteria) during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A state-of-the-art 3G Pitch has been officially opened by the Chairman of East Riding of Yorkshire Council, Councillor Nigel Wilkinson, for East Riding Leisure Beverley.
The new 3G Pitch was made possible thanks to investment from the Premier League, The FA, Commuted Sums, East Riding of Yorkshire Council and the Government’s Football Foundation.
In the week leading up to Remembrance Day 2021, over 140 officers and soldiers of The Yorkshire Regiment will lay commemorative wreaths at war memorials in 30 towns across the region as well as parading on Remembrance Sunday, 14 November, in Hull; Barnsley, Huddersfield, Middlesbrough and York.
Arco, the UK’s leading safety company, has donated over £50,000 worth of personal protective equipment (PPE) supplies to the HEY Smile Foundation, a leading local charity working with organisations in the health and community support sectors.
This PPE will be distributed to local groups and charitable organisations across Hull and East Yorkshire and will help support some of the most vulnerable people in society ahead of the challenging winter period.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council has taken delivery of its first fully electric-powered minibus.
The green, zero-emissions minibus will be used by the council’s transportation team for taking children to schools in the area.
The cobbled streets and historic buildings of Hull’s Old Town were recently the backdrops for Enola Holmes 2 – the next instalment of the hit Netflix franchise.
Enola Holmes 2 was the latest in a string of productions to have been shot in Hull following the likes of The Personal History of David Copperfield and ITV’s Victoria.
In the YORSwitch October auction suppliers were unable to bid below, or indeed close to, the Ofgem price cap, so there was no winning bid on this occasion.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s YORSwitch team is now in an unusual situation, where its best advice is to not switch to a fixed tariff but roll on to the price cap when your current deal ends.