Beverley

Support Event For East Riding Voluntary Youth Sector Groups

Support Event For East Riding Voluntary Youth Sector Groups
January 8, 2020
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East Riding youth groups wanting support and advice with their Positive Activity Grant (PAG) applications are invited to attend a free open evening on Tuesday 21 January.

As the deadline approaches for this year’s applications, East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s youth and family support service (YFS) is holding the event in conjunction with the HEY Smile Foundation and the council’s external funding team.

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East Riding College Ofsted Report Is A Positive One

East Riding College Ofsted Report Is A Positive One
January 7, 2020
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East Riding College has recently received a very positive Ofsted report under the new, tougher 2019 education inspection framework.

The College, which has campuses in Beverley and Bridlington and a site in Hull, has now maintained its “good” status for over a decade following November’s short inspection visit.

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Who Should You Bet on in Britain’s Next Generation of Tennis players?

Who Should You Bet on in Britain's Next Generation of Tennis players?
January 3, 2020
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The absence of Andy Murray from the Australian Open will once again leave British hopes of winning a tennis tournament in doubt, to say the least.

Kyle Edmund has shown promise in the past in the men’s draw, reaching the semi-finals of the competition in 2018. However, Edmund’s form has declined over the last two years, and it would be a surprise to see him make an appearance in the second week of the competition; with current odds of 150/1 to succeed in the Australian Open.

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Graham Stuart MP Keen To Address Local Flooding Issues In 2020

Graham Stuart MP Keen To Address Local Flooding Issues In 2020
January 2, 2020
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Graham Stuart, MP for Beverley and Holderness, has spoken of his determination to keep on tackling flood prevention to make sure we never see a repeat of the devastation caused by floods in 2007.

Heavy rain throughout the beginning of November led once again to people’s homes being flooded as the overly saturated ground couldn’t cope with the amount of rainfall.

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Landmark Native American Film To Be Screened In Beverley

Landmark Native American Film To Be Screened In Beverley
January 1, 2020
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The success of British director, Steven Lewis Simpson’s adaptation of the bestselling novel, Neither Wolf Nor Dog defies logic—Hollywood logic that is.

Produced and financed by his UK company, with 18 shoot days in the US’s poorest region, a crew of two and a 95-year-old lead actor, the US self-distributed release was launched in small towns and outperformed Hollywood blockbusters in numerous multiplexes.

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Charity To Give Away Festive Jewellery Daisy Charm

Charity To Give Away Festive Jewellery Daisy Charm
December 16, 2019
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A teenager who traded a career in fixing cars for a brighter future making and mending gleaming jewellery has charmed her employer and a leading charity with a special Christmas creation.

Savannah Beal has hand-crafted a silver daisy as a gift for Karen Guest, who hired her as an apprentice in the family firm of Guest & Philips. Karen has donated the piece to the Daisy Appeal, which is now giving it away free of charge on Facebook to the most deserving recipient.

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The Pull Of Polo Is Driving Security Firm’s East Yorkshire Expansion

The Pull Of Polo Is Driving Security Firm’s East Yorkshire Expansion
December 13, 2019
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A security company which relocated from Leeds to Beverley because of a passion for polo is heading into its tenth anniversary year with the promise of recruitment and expansion.

Security Direct UK supplies specialist shutters, doors and grilles to corporate and domestic customers around the UK, but less than half of the company’s business comes from its home area.

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Bishop Burton Students To Sample Life Working Abroad

Bishop Burton Students To Sample Life Working Abroad
December 11, 2019
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Travel and tourism and business students at Bishop Burton College will be broadening their horizons on a trip to work in Spain.

Students in the second year of their Level 3 courses in travel and tourism and business will be given the chance to gain crucial experience of working in another country in the two-week trip to Seville at the end of March 2020.

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Service Launch Shakes Up Vehicle Leasing Market

Service Launch Shakes Up Vehicle Leasing Market
December 10, 2019
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An East Yorkshire vehicle finance company is growing fast as customers benefit from a straight forward, simplified approach to fleet management.

Automotive Funding Solutions (AFS) is an independent firm with offices in Beverley run by Chris Goodman and his team of vehicle leasing specialists.

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Salon’s Sporting Heroes Double Their Money For The Daisy Appeal

Salon’s Sporting Heroes Double Their Money For The Daisy Appeal
December 7, 2019
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A leading hair salon group donated more than £3,000 to the Daisy Appeal after staff completed their annual Olympics in memory of a much-loved former colleague.

Teams from the Unique salons in Beverley, Cottingham and Hessle took to the fields of Blackburn Leisure Centre in Brough for the tenth edition of the sporting challenge and racked up the total raised at “Caroline’s Day” over the years to more than £40,000.

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Little Women – Rehearsals Underway At East Riding Theatre

Little Women - Rehearsals Underway At East Riding Theatre
November 27, 2019
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Rehearsals are underway at the East Riding Theatre in Beverley, for Laura Turner’s magical stage adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s classic coming of age novel, Little Women.

Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women continues to inspire audiences through the tale of four young sisters Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth as we follow their adventures through their struggles with family, love, individuality and finding their place in the world as they grow into Little Women.

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Redrow Pushes East With Latest New Homes In Swanland

Redrow Pushes East With Latest New Homes In Swanland
November 26, 2019
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Redrow Homes are pushing east with a development of 56 new homes in the sought-after East Riding of Yorkshire village of Swanland, near Kingston upon Hull.

The award-winning homebuilder has acquired a site of just under five acres off West Wold and has planning consent for a range of two, three, four and five-bedroom properties, including 14 affordable homes and four bungalows.

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