MP for Beverley and Holderness, Graham Stuart, met the NFU and local farmers to discuss the concerns and challenges of the Farming Rules for Water. The group consisted of arable, horticultural, poultry and pig farmers.
A new drive to improve the digital skills of thousands of people across the Humber is being launched today following match-funding from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). It comes as new figures reveal Hull and East Yorkshire’s tech sector is one of the fastest-growing in the UK.
Tech Minister Chris Philp has been in Hull to formally launch a new Local Digital Skills Partnership, a new campaign aiming to equip people for the region’s digital jobs boom and ensure more residents can benefit from the thriving local tech sector.
A business that has worked under the radar guiding governments in the fight against corruption and terrorism is now helping to protect businesses by applying high-level crime prevention techniques that have been tried and tested internationally.
Keith Hunter, appointed last year as Executive Director for Justice, Policing and Security by East Yorkshire-based Agencia, has sharpened the private sector offer by enhancing the company’s 25-year track record of transforming judicial systems with his own experience of dealing with businesses of all sizes during 35 years with the police.
Haxby Group GP Practice has launched a new GP Mentoring and Support Programme, offering bursaries to people wanting to become a GP.
The new programme is designed to offer support to future doctors and those applying to medical school across the region.
Hull City Council have appointed specialists in the renewable energy sector to assess the feasibility of the council’s corporate sites for the installation of a number of green energy projects.
The council are looking at installing rooftop solar photovoltaics (PV), solar farms, wind turbines and solar canopies across their corporate sites.
Victory Leisure Homes – the luxury holiday home manufacturer, with sites in Gilberdyke and Hull – has announced its chosen charity for 2022, which is an organisation particularly close to the heart of one long-serving member of staff.
Chris Rooks, flooring department team leader, has worked at Victory for over a decade. Four years ago, he became a dad to daughter Millie, who was diagnosed with Down Syndrome before she was born.
Hull City Council is inviting people to “branch out” and take part in a free, fun-filled activity day of tree planting at a city woodland as part of The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations.
Members of the public are invited to take part in woodland planting, bushcraft, foraging, den building and other tree-related crafts tomorrow on Tuesday 22 February, from 9am to 4pm.
Ancient figures, around 2,600 years old, from the Hull & East Riding Museum, are being showcased as part of a new exhibition at the British Museum in London.
The Roos Carr figures date back to the Bronze Age and were part of an accidental discovery by labourers in the Holderness village of Roos in 1836.
Soshell, the digital marketing agency responsible for all of Joshua James Jewellery’s marketing materials taps into new audiences after organising a collaboration between the brand and award-winning body confidence advocate, Jess Megan.
The jewellers, who have seen tremendous growth over the past decade, worked with Soshell to compose a thought-provoking social media campaign in aid of raising awareness and funds for the charity of Beat.
Work has started on the £11.7m redevelopment of Queens Gardens in Hull.
The first stage of the redevelopment will include the refurbishment of the Rose Bowl Fountain and the removal of the bandstand which is being relocated to Pickering Park.
Freedom Festival Arts Trust, creators of one of the UK’s leading international arts festival, Freedom Festival, with support from the Welcome Back Fund, England European Regional Development Fund as part of the European Structural and Investment Funds Growth Programme 2014-2020, the Arts Council and the Global Streets network are delighted to be working in partnership with Hull City Council to bring a new event to Hull City Centre, The Awakening.
Ideal Heating has announced it will be offering a series of new apprenticeship opportunities throughout 2022 as it prepares the next generation of talent with skills ready for a future in green energy.
With over 10 new apprenticeships set to be introduced across various areas of the business, the successful applicants will help Ideal play a part in the UK’s drive to become a net-zero economy by 2050, as it increases its production of low carbon heating products.
A row of Grade II-listed buildings on Whitefriargate in Hull is to be partially converted into modern apartments following a £433,000 grant from Historic England.
The grant will support the conversion of unused upper floor space, above retail units, at 7-9 Whitefriargate.
Ultrafast broadband has arrived in a Lincolnshire village, thanks to a full-fibre rollout by specialist rural internet provider Quickline Communications.
It’s all part of the Lincolnshire superfast programme to bring significantly faster broadband speeds to isolated areas of the county. Quickline was awarded the £6.1 million BDUK Broadband grant by Lincolnshire County Council 16 months ago.
Beverley and Holderness MP, Graham Stuart, whose constituency is set to include vital energy-generating infrastructure at Saltend Chemicals Park and the Yorkshire Energy Park, has met Energy Minister, Greg Hands, to back plans for a 600-megawatt, low-carbon hydrogen production plant.
The world-renowned exhibition, ‘Wildlife Photographer of the Year’, on loan from the Natural History Museum in London, will open at Sewerby Hall and Gardens on Saturday, 7 May, featuring exceptional images which capture fascinating animal behaviour, spectacular species and the breathtaking diversity of the natural world. The exhibition will run until July.
Businesses across the Humber region have stepped up to give their backing to an awards scheme that focuses on recognising the efforts of employees and which this year will expand to present three events.
The People in Business Awards (PIBA) are accepting nominations now for their trio of celebrations with the Hull & East Yorkshire People in Business Awards back for the third year and now joined by the Northern Lincolnshire People in Business Awards and the Yorkshire Coast People in Business Awards.
A Middleton on the Wolds based family poultry business has created a new role in its senior management team to support its growth.
Soanes Poultry has appointed Nafferton HR specialist, Mandy Lowthorpe as People and Culture Manager.
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