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.
Hull-based green cleaning company Bio-D has been announced as the winner of a prestigious award for energy and sustainability at a major regional manufacturing awards ceremony.
The Make UK Manufacturing Awards recognises the achievements of companies from across the North East, Yorkshire and the Humber. The winners of each category now go on to the National Manufacturing Awards Ceremony which will be held in London in January.
With the number of children needing foster care continuing to rise, a Beverley fostering agency, Orange Grove Fostercare is encouraging people to consider opening up their home to a child in care.
According to the Fostering Network, the UK’s leading fostering charity, 900 foster families are needed across Yorkshire.
MP Graham Stuart has thanked pig farmers in his constituency for their hard work to make him aware of the litany of problems facing their industry, including labour and CO2 shortages.
Across the country, the industry has been experiencing workforce shortages of approximately 10-15%, while a reduction in exports to China thanks to Covid-19 outbreaks at processing plants has compounded problems as repurposing pigs for the domestic market requires significantly more butchery.
Unity in Community is offering free craft, fitness and wellbeing classes from September to December 2021.
Ranging from Boxercise to Christmas crafts this is an opportunity to try something new, meet other people, practice self-care, or get creative.
A grant scheme designed to engage local residents through exploring Hull’s maritime story has been unveiled.
The Hull Maritime project has launched its first round of micro and small grants supporting community groups and freelancers.
Visit East Yorkshire are delighted to announce that a brand-new Christmas market is coming to Beverley!
Taking place from Monday 13 to Friday 17 December, ‘The Made in East Yorkshire Christmas Market’ will celebrate the very best produce that East Yorkshire’s local businesses have to offer.