Planners Give The Green Light For New Business Centre

Planners Give The Green Light For New Business Centre
February 17, 2017

East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s planning committee has today given the go ahead for the development of a multi-million-pound business centre at the Bridgehead business park, Hessle.

The construction of the £3.9 million project will be delivered by the council. Once built, the building will be operated via an exciting new partnership between the council and the University of Hull.

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Hornsea Area Regeneration Partnership Annual General Meeting

Hornsea Join National Network Of Coastal Community Teams
February 15, 2017

Hornsea Area Regeneration Partnership (HARP) invites anyone who would like to find out more about its work to the Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Thursday, 23 February, at the Hornsea Town Hall, in Newbegin, from 6pm.

The meeting will look at HARP’s achievements over the past year and its plans for the future.

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Creative Community To Join Together At Flemingate

Creative Community To Join Together At Flemingate
February 14, 2017

An innovative social enterprise is to provide a creative home for new, upcoming and established artists and designers at Beverley’s popular Flemingate centre.

Designed to promote and develop creative individuals, THECREATIVELAB will provide cost-effective shared retail space for the creative community to display and sell their work in a fully-staffed retail environment, without the usual costly overheads incurred by small businesses.

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EU Regulation Is A Disaster For Holderness Fishermen Says MP

MP To Visit NHS Humber Foundation Trust To Discuss Mental Health
February 14, 2017

Beverley and Holderness MP Graham Stuart has condemned a new EU Regulation that threatens the livelihoods of Holderness coast beach fishermen and has written to the Fisheries Minister, George Eustice, to ask him to pursue an exemption for Holderness.

The Regulation includes a total ban on targeted sea bass fishing from the shore, jeopardising the future of men like Shaun Wingham, who fishes near Withernsea using the centuries-old practice of onshore fishing, whereby a net is stretched out along the shoreline at low tide and the catch is brought in when it retreats again. Sea bass is the most valuable part of their haul.

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Places Still Available At Tour de Yorkshire Roadshows

Driffield Added To The Tour De Yorkshire Business Roadshow Line-Up
February 6, 2017

Places are still available for business and community representatives in Driffield and Pocklington to find out more about what they can do to make the most of the 2017 Tour de Yorkshire.

Hosted by Welcome to Yorkshire and East Riding of Yorkshire Council, the free roadshows will be taking placed at Driffield Showground on Wednesday, 15 February, from 10am-12.30pm, and at The KP Club, Kilnwick Percy, York, on Wednesday, 22 February, from3-5pm.

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RSPCA Hull & East Yorkshire Branch Open Charity Shop In Beverley

RSPCA Hull & East Yorkshire Branch Open Charity Shop In Beverley
February 1, 2017

A new shop that will be run by the Hull & East Riding Branch of the RSPCA will open for business today, 1 February, in the centre of Beverley.

Located on Butcher Row the Hull & East Riding Branch of the RSPCA will launch their second charity shop to be following on from the success of their first store in Hull on Holderness Road.

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Designs Signage Solutions Ltd To Help Hull 2017 UK City Of Culture Dress The City

Designs Signage Solutions Ltd To Help Hull 2017 Uk City Of Culture Dress The City
January 27, 2017

Designs Signage Solutions Ltd. are excited to announce their involvement with Hull 2017 UK City of Culture as a supplier. Designs will be helping showcase the events going on throughout the year with high quality branding, signage and print.

This year is of great significance to Hull, honouring the city’s history and acknowledging its revitalisation over the last ten or so years. The influx of tourism and investment that come with the title will only enhance the city and build a better Hull for years to come.

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Help For Charities To Cut Through Financial Red Tape

Help For Charities To Cut Through Financial Red Tape
January 26, 2017

As more and more charities are recognising the need for expert financial guidance, award-winning 360 Chartered Accountants has decided to devote its next Saturday morning surgery to helping those struggling with what can be a financial minefield.

The Hull and East Yorkshire-based firm says many charities try hard to cope with the different types of financial reporting required, but fall short of the complicated regulations without expert guidance.

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Biggest Beach Angling Festival In The World Celebrates 24 Years

Biggest Beach Angling Festival In The World Celebrates 24 Years
January 26, 2017

With less than a month until the record breaking Paul Roggeman European Open Beach Championship (EOBC), the world’s largest three-day beach angling festival, entries are reeling in.

The event, renamed in memory of its founder, celebrates its 24th birthday this year and will run from Friday, 24 to Sunday, 26 February, with an estimated 1,000 anglers returning to the East Yorkshire Coast, with its HQ at Sand Le Mere Holiday Village, hoping to reel in a share of £35,000 in prize funds.

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Yorkshire Party Set To Develop A Vision For Yorkshire

Yorkshire Party Set To Develop A Vision For Yorkshire
January 23, 2017

The Yorkshire Party say they are in the process of creating a vision of how Yorkshire would should any plans for devolution be successful.

Their vision will outline the possible changes to localised government, introductions of a Mayor and also the economic impact on the region.

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Holderness Coast Fisheries Local Action Group Secure Funding

Holderness Coast Fisheries Local Action Group Secure Funding
January 19, 2017

Funding has once again been awarded to the Holderness Coast Fisheries Local Action Group (FLAG) by the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund, to continue its valuable work assisting the East Riding’s coastal communities and local fishing industry.

There is funding available for the fishing industry, fishing communities and groups and organisations involved in the social, economic and environmental wellbeing of the Holderness coast from the FLAG initiative.

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Humber Film To Shoot ‘A Place They Called Forgotten Town’

Humber Film To Shoot ‘A Place They Called Forgotten Town’
January 17, 2017

A major music video shoot for Humber Film’s Hull City of Culture 2017 – Creative Communities Programme will take place in the Old Fruit Market in Hull.

The song ‘A Place They Called Forgotten Town’ is a musical and lyrical reworking by Hull-born Henry Priestman of his late 1980’s chart hit ‘Forgotten Town’ by The Christians which was written about the state of the country at the time (the North especially), which particularly affected his home town.

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Humber NHS Welcomes Prime Minister’s Focus On Mental Health

Humber NHS Welcomes Prime Minister’s Focus On Mental Health
January 11, 2017

Humber NHS Foundation Trust is welcoming this high profile focus being given to mental health services following Prime Minister Theresa May’s speech to the Charity Commission, where she described mental health as “dangerously disregarded” and as secondary to physical health.

In her speech Mrs May spoke of the need to place less emphasis on patients visiting their GP or attending A&E services.

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Dirty Hero Will Sort The Men From The Boys And The Women From The Girls!

Dirty Hero Will Sort The Men From The Boys And The Women From The Girls!
January 10, 2017

Would you rush into a burning building to save a stranger? Would you willingly lay down your life for your battalion on the battlefield or jump into a river to save someone from drowning?

Hopefully you’ll never have to find out. But now you can unleash your inner hero, in a brand new exciting, but grueling obstacle course race coming to North Yorkshire in 2017!

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BLADE : Major Commission For Hull UK City Of Culture 2017

BLADE : Major Commission For Hull UK City Of Culture 2017
January 8, 2017

In a major commission for Hull UK City of Culture 2017, the artist Nayan Kulkarni is transforming the historic heart of the city with Blade, a monumental artwork that changes the way people see and experience Queen Victoria Square.

Nayan Kulkarni, a multimedia artist known for his work with light, has taken a 75 metre long Rotor blade that would normally be at the top of a wind turbine, to create the artwork, a spectacular interruption into the newly renovated public space.

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