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Success For 360 As First Apprentice Qualifies As Accountant

Success For 360 As First Apprentice Qualifies As Accountant
May 3, 2017
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The 360 Chartered Accountants team is celebrating after its very first apprentice passed her final ACCA exams to become a fully qualified accountant!

Sophie Holmes joined 360 in 2011 and came second in the national finals of the ICAEW Apprentice Business Challenge Competition in 2013. Last year, after having already been promoted internally for her exceptional work, she was named as the firm’s Charities Specialist.

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Ash.TV Announces £9.99 Business Videos

Ash.TV Announces £9.99 Business Videos
May 3, 2017
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Unbelievable, Hull based business ash.tv is now offering business videos starting from £9.99 to help promote small businesses online and achieve rocketing results.

After previously being identified as a leading start up in Tech North awards and becoming one of the top 10 fastest growing tech companies in the North of the UK Hull based video advertiser Ash TV is now offering a new service that is proving to be a success.

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HULL : Parading Around In Orchard Park, Stilts And All

HULL : Parading Around In Orchard Park, Stilts And All
May 3, 2017
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Today is the last chance to attend an Extraordinary Orchard Park Parade workshop before the big event itself on Saturday (6 May).

Artists from Handmade Parade, Hull Carnival Arts and Rag and Bone have been working with residents of the Orchard Park Estate to make creatures, characters and flags that will feature in the Extraordinary Orchard Park Parade. The final workshop takes place at St Michael’s Youth Project on Orchard Park Estate between 3.30pm-5.30pm.

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PHOTOS : Lord Line & St Andrew’s Dock – From Above

PHOTOS : Lord Line & St Andrew’s Dock – From Above
April 28, 2017
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One of the most well known land marks in the area, the Lord Line building stands, abandoned and derelict in St Andrew’s Dock in Hull.

Over year’s since moving to the area I have been interested in this building and have photographed it many times from the ground, though this time took some shots from above.

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Holderness Beach Fishermen’s Hopes Rise For Early Sea Bass Dispensation

Holderness Beach Fishermen’s Hopes Rise For Early Sea Bass Dispensation
April 27, 2017
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Graham Stuart MP has received a welcome boost to his campaign for the EU to scrap its new regulation which prohibits the Holderness onshore fishermen from landing Sea Bass.

Graham met onshore fisherman Shaun Wingham and his wife Penny in Withernsea recently to hear about the impact of the new EU regulation which prohibits them from landing Sea Bass. Shaun and his colleagues fish using a net that is stretched out along the beach at low tide, allowing the catch to be brought in when the tide retreats again. Sea Bass is the most valuable part of their haul.

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CALLING ALL BUDDING ACTRESSES : Leading Ladies Sought For Sci-fi Shorts

CALLING ALL BUDDING ACTRESSES : Leading Ladies Sought For Sci-fi Shorts
April 27, 2017
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Calling all budding actresses! Fantastic opportunity for local young talent to play leading roles in sci-fi films being shot in Hull & Aarhus as part of an interactive art project for Hull UK City of Culture 2017

Are you up for a challenge and ready to take your next step in professional acting? The search is on for the best young acting talent Hull has to offer as a casting call launches for the leading roles in a series of sci-fi films being shot in the city.

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Tour de Yorkshire – Final Preparations Now In Place

Tour de Yorkshire - Final Preparations Now In Place
April 26, 2017
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Thousands of spectators are expected to line the streets of the East Riding on Friday, 28 April as the 2017 Tour de Yorkshire gets underway in Bridlington before passing through East Yorkshire and taking in Driffield and Pocklington for the first time.

The ceremonial start takes place outside Bridlington Spa, at 12.35pm, before the riders leave the town, passing by East Riding Leisure Bridlington and out via the A614.

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East Riding Leisure Francis Scaife To Benefit From Major Improvements

East Riding Leisure Francis Scaife To Benefit From Major Improvements
April 25, 2017
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Major improvements are on the way to East Riding Leisure Francis Scaife in Pocklington, with a £300,000 refurbishment of the Tone Zone gym and cycle studio, and the introduction of online booking.

The Tone Zone gym and cycle studio will be closed from Saturday 6 May. The Tone Zone will reopen on Monday 22 May, when it will incorporate a new TRX wall, which has already proved popular at East Riding Leisure Beverley and Goole.

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HULL CITY OF CULTURE : Performance Where You Least Expect It

HULL CITY OF CULTURE : Performance Where You Least Expect It
April 25, 2017
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A wedding breakfast with a twist in a church, a comic musical chase through the streets and a puppet show in a café are among the performances you can expect if you go to Newland Avenue this summer.

For one day only in Hull’s Newland Avenue, a theatre festival will transform the most unlikely of places into pop-up performance spaces. The avenue is set to come alive as flashmobs, interactive shows, music, art and dance erupt in a variety of the area’s independent venues.

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360 Manager Becomes Mentor For Cherie Blair Foundation

360 Manager Becomes Mentor For Cherie Blair Foundation
April 25, 2017
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Claire Jacques, Business Development Manager at 360 Chartered Accountants, has been selected to be a mentor for the prestigious Cherie Blair Foundation for Women Mentoring programme.

The year-long mentorship, which starts in May, aims to support and empower women in developing and emerging markets so that they can set up and grow successful businesses.

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Sewerby Hall And Gardens Accredited As Learning Destination

Sewerby Hall And Gardens Accredited As Learning Destination
April 25, 2017
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Staff at Sewerby Hall and Gardens are celebrating the fact that the venue has been validated as a Learning Destination by Scarborough Children’s University, supported by the University of Hull.

The accreditation means that Children’s University passport holders who visit Sewerby Hall and Gardens outside school hours can be awarded an hour for visiting the house itself; an hour for completing one of the trails; an hour if they take part in a drop –in activity; and an hour for visiting the zoo.

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RICS Hull & East Yorkshire Local Association To Host Networking Event

RICS Hull & East Yorkshire Local Association To Host Netowrking Event
April 24, 2017
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RICS Hull & East Yorkshire Local Association (HEYLA) is running its annual CPD event on Wednesday the 10 May at KCOM Stadium. The event is aimed at professionals in property who would like the opportunity to network with like-minded professionals over breakfast, training and lunch.

RICS aims to make these events inexpensive and informative and consisting of three sessions, such as CDM 2015, Dilapidations and Cost Reinstatement, to help attendees keep their skills and knowledge up to date, relevant, competent and competitive within their field of work.

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Back To Ours Returns – Over Ten Acts In Eight Venues Over Six Days

Back To Ours Returns - Over Ten Acts In Eight Venues Over Six Days
April 24, 2017
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Award-winning aerial acrobatics, stand-up comedy, poetry, interactive theatre, live music and sing along films are coming to the heart of Hull’s neighbourhoods for the second in a series of ground-breaking festivals.

Hull UK City of Culture 2017 has today announced the line-up of the hotly anticipated May half term Back To Ours (30 May to 4 June) ahead of the tickets going on sale next Thursday (27 April).

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Dance Artists Break The Rules With A Weekend Of Contemporary Dance

Dance Artists Break The Rules With A Weekend Of Contemporary Dance
April 24, 2017
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Hull Dance, the leading voice for professional dancers in the UK’s City of Culture, presents Transgression: Breaking the rules between Friday 12 and Sunday 14 May, with exceptional performances, insightful discussion and workshops from artists all well-known for breaking the rules.

From Internationally renowned New Art Club creating their usual brand of mayhem in the Guildhall’s council chamber to Colette Sadler’s Notebook Series, where she creates a conversation with her laptop.

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New Mini Guide To Help Visitors Enjoy Bridlington

Bridlington Spa Leads The East Riding Into The Year Of Culture
April 24, 2017
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A new mini guide, aimed at helping day visitors make the most of their trip to Bridlington, is now available.

The ‘Enjoy Bridlington’ guide includes information about various attractions in the town, including Bridlington Spa, Sewerby Hall and Gardens, John Bull’s World of Rock, Burton Agnes Hall, the Bayle Museum and Priory Church, details about sport and leisure activities like those offered by East Riding Leisure Bridlington and things to do on the heritage coast, such as tours of Flamborough Lighthouse or viewing the seabird colonies of RSPB Bempton.

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Arup To Design And Pre-Construct Yorkshire Harbour And Marina

Arup To Design And Pre-Construct Yorkshire Harbour And Marina
April 23, 2017
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East Riding of Yorkshire Council and Bridlington Harbour Commissioners have appointed internationally-renowned professional services firm Arup to undertake project design and pre-construction work for the Yorkshire Harbour and Marina Project.

Funded by a £3.5 million Local Growth Fund grant, awarded by the York, North Yorkshire and East Riding Enterprise Partnership, Arup will start work in March and will provide a design for the preferred concept, advice on potential funding sources, preparation of papers to support any statutory orders and consents and the development of tender documentation for the project’s construction. This work is anticipated to take until late 2018 to complete.

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