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Hull 4 Heroes Able To Respond Quicker With New Corporate Card Solution

Hull 4 Heroes Able To Respond Quicker With New Corporate Card Solution

Hull based financial technology firm Expensemate has given Hull 4 Heroes the ability to respond quicker to veterans’ needs with three pre-paid cards, which speed up and monitor the transactions that are essential to running the charity.

Expensemate, which is part of the Rix Group, launched the only corporate expense card to offer credit in 2020. They have gifted the charity with three of their pre-paid cards – worth £252 a year in usual fees – to enable members of the Hull 4 Heroes team to respond quickly when supporting veterans.

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Beverley Minster Choir – Celebrating Success And Building For The Future

Beverley Minster Choir – Celebrating Success And Building For The Future

Beverley Minster Choir hosted two events as they made a return for the first time in over a year as a result of the pandemic.  They are now seeking young people to join their ranks as they look to build for the future.

The first of these, a celebratory evensong saw the return of the full choir for the first time since March 2020 earlier in the month.

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Celebrated Hull Historian And Photographer Gifts His Life’s Work To City

Celebrated Hull Historian And Photographer Gifts His Life’s Work To City

Hull historian, author and photographer Dr Alec Gill MBE has gifted his extensive research – representing 50-years of documenting the city’s Hessle Road Fishing culture – to Hull History Centre.

Almost one hundred large box files, containing tens of thousands of pages, have been deposited at the archive in Hull.

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Man Charged With Theft Of Distinctive Bike

Man Charged With Two Counts Of Arson

A 26-year-old man has been charged in connection to two incidents that occurred in Beverley on Wednesday 8 September.

The man was charged with arson with intent to endanger life and arson with criminal damage in relation to two fires that destroyed two vehicles on Swinemoor Lane and Grove Hill Road.

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East Riding Of Yorkshire COVID-19 Vaccination Bus A Success

East Riding Of Yorkshire COVID-19 Vaccination Bus A Success

The vaccine roll-out throughout East Riding of Yorkshire has been very successful with 90% of people receiving their first and 84% their second.

This is due, not only to the number of vaccination clinics throughout the large geographical area, but also the health and wellbeing bus that is touring East Riding of Yorkshire, offering the lowest-vaccinated areas in the region easier access to COVID-19 vaccine.

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Law Firm Marks Milestone By Sharing In Camera Interviews With Colleagues

Law Firm Marks Milestone By Sharing In Camera Interviews With Colleagues

A law firm that is celebrating its 180th anniversary is turning to a combination of tradition and technology to share the stories of its rich history.

Rollits still has copies of the hardback book published in 1991 by the then Senior Partner Tom Farrell to celebrate 150 years of the firm. Thirty years on the practice is adding to the archive by filming interviews with members of its team from offices in Hull and York.

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Beavers Beaten On The Road By Old Crossleyans

Middlesbrough Recover To Secure Victory Against Beverley

Middlesbrough kicked off on a bright sunny afternoon at Beaver Park and the Beavers immediately set up camp in the visitors 22.

After 5 minutes Rob Smith scooted over for a try which Phil Duboulay converted (7-0). He followed this 2 minutes later by making a fine break and putting Jake Boardman in for a try which Duboulay again converted to make it 14 points to nil and to set their supporters cheering after last week’s disappointing result at Old Crossleyans.

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WISHH Charity Launches £40,000 By Your Side Appeal

WISHH Charity Launches £40,000 By Your Side Appeal

Hull Hospitals are here, by your side when you need them, from the delivery of exceptional care to supporting families and loved ones.

They are a team we can truly depend on when we need them most. Many of us will have our own story to tell on how hospital staff have touched our lives and gone above and beyond to make a difference.

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Incentive Launched By Housebuilder To Support Education Professionals

Incentive Launched By Housebuilder To Support Education Professionals

A local housebuilder is supporting the teachers, tutors and lecturers who play such an important role in their communities by launching a new incentive designed to boost their efforts to buy a new home.

Barratt Developments Yorkshire East, which has developments across Hull, including Fleet Green and Hesslewood Park in Hessle, Poppy Fields and Harland Park in Cottingham, Queens Court and Minster View in Beverley, and Harrier Chase in Brough, is offering a discount of up to 3% off the price of a new home for anyone who works at a nursery, school, college or university.

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Bridlington Kite Festival 2021 A Flying Success

Bridlington Kite Festival 2021 A Flying Success

This year’s Bridlington Kite Festival drew in big crowds at the weekend with kite-enthusiasts treated to a range of different shapes and designs in the air.

More than 100 kites took to the skies, including Oscar, the world’s largest teddy bear, Bertie Bassett, a stingray, Mario, and a 100m-long dragon made by hand in Bali, according to owner Malcolm Goodman who brought it along to Sewerby Fields in only its second outing.

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Campaign Shows The Consequences Of Abuse In Primary Care

Campaign Shows The Consequences Of Abuse In Primary Care

A campaign has been launched to help tackle a rise in abusive behaviour towards healthcare workers in primary care across the Humber area.

The initiative is led by Humberside Group of Local Medical Committees Ltd (Humberside LMC) with the support of the Clinical Commissioning Groups in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, and Northern Lincolnshire, and a range of partners who are standing together to say that abuse of primary care workers in any role will not be tolerated.

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Find Out About Fostering And How You Can Make A Difference

Find Out About Fostering And How You Can Make A Difference

East Riding of Yorkshire Council is looking to recruit new foster carers and supported lodgings providers, for children and young people, at a fostering event in Driffield next week.

Anyone interested in finding out more about becoming a foster family is invited to go along to an information event at Driffield Rugby Club, YO25 9DW (next to Driffield Show Ground), on Tuesday, 21 September, starting at 7pm, with refreshments available from 6.30pm. 

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Motor Group Backs Daisy Appeal Drive To Fund Cutting-Edge Research

Motor Group Backs Daisy Appeal Drive To Fund Cutting-Edge Research

The charity behind a campaign to raise £8.5 million to provide a Molecular Imaging Research (MIR) Centre at Castle Hill Hospital has received a £3,000 boost from the UK’s largest independent car retailer.

Staff at the York branch of Arnold Clark handed over the donation from the company’s community programme to support the Daisy Appeal, which has already raised more than £20m to fund cutting-edge research and state-of-the-art equipment and facilities for patients in the Humber region.

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