East Yorkshire Online Marketing Agency Handpicked For Google Elevator Success

East Yorkshire Online Marketing Agency Handpicked For Google Elevator Success
June 12, 2017

A Little Weighton based web marketing specialist is one of a handful of national agencies to be selected by internet giant Google to take part in its exclusive Elevator programme.

Getextra, the agency founded by chartered marketer Paul Smith, is the only Google Partner business in Yorkshire that has been invited by the technology behemoth to participate in its training scheme.

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Hull’s Art And Design Students To Exhibit Work At Somerset House

Hull’s Art And Design Students To Exhibit Work At Somerset House
June 10, 2017

Year ten students from Hull are set to have their artwork showcased at the world-famous Somerset House in London.

A group of 24 talented art and design students will travel to the capital on Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 June as the culmination of a year of weekly sessions held at Hull School of Art and Design (HSAD), funded by Hull UK City of Culture 2017.

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HULL : Family Fun Assured At Annual Lord Mayor’s Gala

HULL : Family Fun Assured At Annual Lord Mayor’s Gala
June 10, 2017

A colourful and multi-cultural event will mark the first public event of the Lord Mayor’s civic year.

This popular annual gala will take place this Saturday (10 June), welcoming the new Lord Mayor into their role and is set to bring a blaze of colour, music, dance and fun activities to Queens Gardens in Hull’s city centre.

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Free Workshops Offer The Chance To Get Musical In Hull

Free Workshops Offer The Chance To Get Musical In Hull
June 9, 2017

The Albemarle Music Centre is celebrating Hull UK City of Culture 2017 by opening its doors so that people can enjoy, experience and learn music – some for the first time.

The workshops – part of Hull 2017’s Creative Communities Programme – are taking place on selected Saturdays throughout the year.

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Gordon Sewell Joins Williamsons Developing Maritime Sector

Gordon Sewell Joins Williamsons Developing Maritime Sector
June 8, 2017

Expert shipping lawyer Gordon Sewell has taken his career a step further by joining Hull firm Williamsons Solicitors’ civil litigation department.

He will provide maritime law expertise along with civil litigation and defence advocacy after working for two other firms over the past 12 years. He is also targeting more commercial business.

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Hull People Urged To Consider Home Share Scheme

Hull People Urged To Consider Home Share Scheme
June 8, 2017

Participants in Hull’s Shared Lives scheme, where families care for an adult with a disability in their own home, have urged others to consider getting involved. Shared Lives is a chance for people to share their home with an adult who needs support and would otherwise be in residential care.

Those who become Shared Lives carers are carefully matched with the person they look after and receive full training and financial support. They also have access to the network of professionals behind Shared Lives, who provide practical help and advice at every stage of the process.

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High-Speed Battles For T Sport Racing At UK´s Fastest Circuit

High-Speed Battles For T Sport Racing At UK´s Fastest Circuit
June 7, 2017

At the first weekend in June, T Sport Racing attended the third round of the British Truck Racing Championship at the high-speed circuit in Thruxton near Andover.

On early Friday morning, the team was among the first ones to be all set for a great race weekend on UK´s fastest circuit. Due to noise restrictions, however, neither they nor anyone else were able to practice or test their set-up until Saturday morning.

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A Replica Of Noah’s Ark Will Be Built In Trinity Square As Part Of Summer Festival

A Replica Of Noah’s Ark Will Be Built In Trinity Square As Part Of Summer Festival
June 5, 2017

A 24-foot ark is set to be built in Trinity Square as part of a fantastic festival in Hull. Noah, as well as other tales, will be recreated at a family festival at Hull Minister on Saturday June 24.

The festival – part of Hull UK City of Culture 2017’s Creative Communities Programme -will feature a 400-year-old medieval version of Noah directed by Philip Crispin, expert in Medieval Theatre at the University of Hull,

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HULL CITY OF CULTURE : WORM’s Avantgarde State heads to Hull

HULL CITY OF CULTURE : WORM's Avantgarde State heads to Hull
June 2, 2017

Born under the stars of punk, Dada, Fluxus and hacktivism, WORM is the blue-blooded hyperactive child of an impossible love between avantgarde recreation, DIY and sustainability.

Based in Rotterdam, their mission is to separate the cultural wheat from the artistic chaff through the staging of a motley collection of concerts, film screenings, lectures, music, research libraries, performance and general anarchy.

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Polari Literary Salon To Return To Hull As Part Of LGBT 50 Celebrations

Polari Literary Salon To Return To Hull As Part Of LGBT 50 Celebrations
June 1, 2017

London’s award-winning celebration of emerging and established LGBT writers, Polari, returns to Hull in July at the invitation of Pride in Hull as part of Hull UK City of Culture 2017’s LGBT 50 celebrations, presented in partnership with the Sewell Group.

Following a hugely popular event in November 2016, this highly acclaimed literary salon, hosted and curated by critically acclaimed author Paul Burston, will be held in the city once again at Kardomah94 on Thursday 27 July.

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Artists Come Together For Special Theatre Project In Hull

Artists Come Together For Special Theatre Project In Hull
May 30, 2017

One of the city’s proudest and most exciting theatre festivals will be topped off next week with a special performance telling the story of one of Hull’s most creative and diverse communities.

Newland Avenue’s Assemble Fest takes centre stage on Saturday June 3 with show-stopping performances from the best local theatre companies in unlikely spaces.

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HULL : Man Charged Following Hate Crime Incident

Humberside Police
May 30, 2017

Humberside Police have charged a following a hate crime that took place in the during the bank holiday weekend.

44-year-old Martin Alan Warhurst of Duesberry Street, Hull has been charged with racially aggravated harassment following an incident on Ferensway, Hull in the early hours of Sunday 28 May.

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Commissioner Announces Preferred Candidate For Humberside Police Chief Constable

Commissioner Announces Preferred Candidate For Humberside Police Chief Constable
May 30, 2017

Humberside Police and Crime Commissioner Keith Hunter has announced Lee Freeman as the preferred candidate for Chief Constable of Humberside Police following the recent selection process.

Grimsby-born Mr Freeman (48), who is currently Temp. Deputy Chief Constable of the Force will now attend a confirmation hearing with the Humberside Police and Crime Panel in June. In the interim period before the hearing Mr Freeman will assume command of the Force with Garry Forsyth reverting to his role as Deputy Chief Constable with immediate effect.

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Over 200 Hull Children Take To The Stage For The Big Sing

Over 200 Hull Children Take To The Stage For The Big Sing
May 28, 2017

Over 200 schoolchildren are getting ready to take to the stage at Hull City Hall on Monday 5 June when they come together for Opera North’s Big Sing.

The younger singers are being supported by 2017 Hull UK City of Culture and come from three primary schools in the city: Gillshill Primary School, Ings Primary School and Thanet Primary School; they are joined by Year 7 and 8 pupils from Baysgarth School in Barton Upon Humber, together with pupils from Opera North’s Singing Schools: Adelaide Primary School, Kingswood Parks Primary School and Bude Park Primary School.

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