Does Your Team Need Focus and Confidence?

May 4, 2010

Beverley based hypnotist, Sheila Granger would like to offer her services to local sports teams to help with performance. Sheila’s group hypnosis sessions offer psychological training for sports to provide focus and motivation – ideally the team should be aged 12 and over. Sheila says ‘Hypnotherapy is suitable for everyone.  There is absolutely nothing to lose. It is completely natural, non-magical and safe and the benefits will be evident in…

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Motorcycle Action Group Freedom Run Pictures

May 1, 2010

The Freedom Run by the East Yorkshire Motorcycle Action Group grouped up in Beverley at Riverside Café. Around 1000 bikers took part in a ride which ended with hustings on the Humber Bridge. HU17.net Picture Gallery: Click on the thumbnail picture below to enlarge the image to full size [nggallery id=622] HU17.net Picture Gallery: Click on the thumbnail picture below to enlarge the image to full size

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Beverley Lions Grant Aids Colts Development

April 29, 2010

Beverley’s newest senior football side is aiming to turn a welcome grant from the Beverley Lions into a real community booster. The Humber Colts, founded just last July, stand on the verge of a remarkable first-season promotion from Division 5 Wyke of the Hull Men’s Sunday League, standing four points clear at the top of the table with two games to go. And they hope a generous £360 grant from…

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Town Council Award Grant to the Beverley Christmas Lights Appeal

April 29, 2010

The Beverley Christmas Lights Appeal has been awarded £2500 from Beverley Town Council from the Large Grants Fund. Prue Blake from the Christmas Lights Committee says: “We would like to thank the Beverley Town Council for this award, it is much needed because this year we have extra expenses for Health & Safety.  The security of the tree brackets need testing, the electrical boxes need repairing and in some cases…

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A Sense of Photography Competition

April 29, 2010

Groups are being asked to arrange photography contests to feed into an East Riding-wide competition Local groups are being asked to hold year-long contests for creative and interesting photographs from October 2010. The local contest winners will be submitted to the wider competition – organised by the East Riding Cultural Partnership. Standout images will be chosen for a formal exhibition at the Beverley Art Gallery in 2012. Photographs could include…

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Beverley 10K Sponsors Enter 13 Runners

April 28, 2010

Hall Construction, sponsor of the Beverley 10k, has entered a 13-strong team of runners for this year’s race. Leading the team by example is Chairman and Managing Director, Martin Hall, an experienced athlete who completed the London Marathon last Sunday in a commendable time of 3.33.14. Team Hall will be finishing their training with a run this Sunday with members of Beverley Athletic Club. Anyone running in the Beverley 10k…

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Older Residents Get Healthy Eating Tips From Students

April 28, 2010

Catering students from East Riding College have been giving older East Riding residents tips on eating healthy, thanks to a link-up with AGE Concern East Riding. A series of three free cookery demonstrations for the over-50s is being held at the College’s campus in Gallows Lane, Beverley, as part of the charity’s National Lottery-funded Fit as a Fiddle project. The sessions focus on healthy eating on a budget, including cooking…

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Teenage Cancer Trust Curry Night @ Mirchi

April 28, 2010

Pictures from Mirchi Indian Restaurant in Beverley hosted a fund raising evening in aid of Teenage Cancer Research. Members of the public were invited to enjoy some top Indian food and at the same time help raise money for a worthwhile cause. HU17.net Picture Gallery: Click on the thumbnail picture below to enlarge the image to full size [nggallery id=614] HU17.net Picture Gallery: Click on the thumbnail picture below to…

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Air Cadets Clean Memorials in Hengate

April 27, 2010

On Sunday 25th April staff and cadets from 399 (Beverley) Squadron Air Cadets met at the memorial gardens in Hengate to clean the HMS Beverley and RAF 640 Squadron memorials, over the years the stonework has become dirty and required a heavy scrubbing to bring back some degree of cleanliness. Overall it was a busy weekend for the squadron, with staff and cadets spread around the country, as well as…

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Beverley Art Gallery and Treasure House Open Bank Holiday

April 27, 2010

The museum and art gallery on the first floor at the Treasure House in Champney Road, Beverley, will be open on Bank Holiday Monday (3rd May) from 9.30am – 5pm, offering a range of exhibitions, as well as a gift shop. Current displays include the unique South Cave weapons cache and a final chance to see the replica of one of the Iron Age swords from the cache. In Gallery…

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Missing: Russell Bohling Public Appeal

April 27, 2010

The father of missing 18-year-old Russell Bohling held a press conference with Chief Superintendent Paul Davison at Beverley Police Station. Mr Roger Bohling made the following statement: The family fully understands in conducting their enquiries the police had at the outset to keep an open mind, but having carefully and at length, reviewed with senior police officers what is known about the events of Tuesday the 2nd of March the…

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Experience Beverley From above as Minster Opens Doors to Public

April 27, 2010

On May Bank Holiday Monday the virgers at Beverley Minster are opening the north western (clock) tower to the general public for only the second time in 30 years. The two 165 foot towers give unrivalled views over East Yorkshire and the 40 minute guided tour includes a rest and demonstration of the clock mechanism as well as ample time for photographs from the top. The finest views of Beverley…

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Hundreds Fill the Minster for Hustings Night

April 27, 2010

Around 500 people packed into Beverley Minster last night as local candidates Dr Craig Dobson (Lib Dem), Bill Rigby (Green), Ian Saunders (Lab) and Graham Stuart (Con) took to the stage coming face to face with the voters with Rev Jeremy Fletcher over seeing the pannel. HU17.net Picture Gallery: Click on the thumbnail picture below to enlarge the image to full size [nggallery id=605] HU17.net Picture Gallery: Click on the…

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Flower Arranging With Kevin Hara

April 24, 2010

The Beverley Christmas Lights Appeal held a flower demonstration evening at St Mary’s Church Parish Hall. Kevin Hara gave the audience of around 50 people helpful hints and tips in fine art of flower arranging. HU17.net Picture Gallery: Click on the thumbnail picture below to enlarge the image to full size [nggallery id=595] HU17.net Picture Gallery: Click on the thumbnail picture below to enlarge the image to full size

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Mirchi Indian Fund Raiser

April 23, 2010

Restaurant in Beverley has joined forces with Molescroft mum Sylvia Hood to host a fundraising evening in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust. A special 3-course meal will be served in the restaurant from 6pm on Tuesday 27 April.  Diners will be entertained with acoustic music by Peter Caswell and Thomas Hood and there will also be a raffle.  Local people are invited to get together with family and friends…

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Cattle & Sheep Back on Beverley Westwood

April 23, 2010

One of Beverley’s traditional seasonal features, the grazing animals, have started to appear on the on the Beverley Westwood. Sheep with their lambs and cattle are starting to come back to the pastures that surround the historic market town. Motorists are advised to proceed with care while driving across the Beverley Westwood.

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Graham Stuart Pledges to Support Equitable Life Pension victims

April 23, 2010

Conservative candidate for Beverley and Holderness, Graham Stuart, today publicly pledged to fight for compensation to be paid to those affected by the Equitable Life pension collapse. Equitable Life got into trouble when the House of Lords ordered it to meet £1.5 billion of expensive guarantees it had made to some of its annuity policyholders. More than a million people are estimated to have lost more than £4 billion as…

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Get Expert Advice on Higher Education Qualification

April 23, 2010

People who work in childcare can find out how a higher education qualification will benefit them at an “expert session” to be held at East Riding College next week. The free two-hour session will be held at the campus in Gallows Lane, Beverley, on Thursday, April 29, from 5pm to 7.30pm. It will be delivered by the Indigo Moon Theatre Company who will demonstrate how to make and use puppets…

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