Beverley apprentice Liam Wardell has been named the best apprentice in the Yorkshire & Trent Region for the 2017 Federation of Master Builders’ (FMB) Master Builder Awards.
As part of the Master Builder Awards the FMB carries out a nationwide search to find the building industry’s best apprentices.
Hull based wealth management company, The Insurance Partnership Financial Services Ltd has won a technology award at the Change the Game Conference in Manchester for ‘Most Extensive Use’, presented by Hamish Purdy, CEO of Intelliflo.
The Insurance Partnership Financial Services Ltd made a significant investment in Intelligent Office (iO) technology, to streamline office systems in order to enable the team to further improve its service and support to clients.
Madeleine St John has been admitted to the roll of solicitors and is forging ahead on a career in wills and probate with Williamsons after benefiting from the firm’s training programme.
Madeleine, who has been with the practice for nearly four years as a paralegal and trainee in Hull, will move to the firm’s offices in her hometown Beverley at Tower House, North Bar Within.
Thanks to a donation from the Sunday Times art critic through the Friends of the Ferens adopt a painting scheme, the painting of ‘Portrait of a Unknown Musician’ (c.1644) by William Dobson will now go on display.
For a while it was thought that this painting might represent Henry Lawes, Gentleman of the Chapel Royal and a composer in the court of Charles I. But comparison with a painting of Henry, possibly by the artist Lely, has placed this identification in doubt.
New warning signs are to be placed at litter hotspots across the East Riding as part of a campaign to combat the growing problem of roadside rubbish.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council will be placing yellow signs on the verges of main roads with a clear message to drivers to ‘Take Your Litter Home’.
Craft brewer Great Newsome is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a special ‘Festivale’ on June 17.
The farm-based brewery at South Frodingham, Holderness, is laying on food, drink and entertainment for the family event in support of the Daisy Appeal medical charity.
School children in Bransholme are coming together to produce a time capsule as part of the Hull estate’s 50th anniversary celebrations.
The capsule will be buried for 50 years before it is opened again in 2067.
Music and sculpture will take the stage at NHS Hull Clinical Commissioning Group’s (CCG) Annual General Meeting.
The CCG is delighted to invite people in Hull to join them in a celebration of a year in healthcare. The event marks the CCG’s fourth year in local healthcare and will take place at the Guildhall, Alfred Gelder Street in Hull on Wednesday 28 June.
The Tidal Waves beach music Festival in Bridlington this weekend (Friday 9 and Saturday 10 June) event has now added a second venue – The Spa Gardens, on Saturday.
The newly – announced schedule of music at the Spa Gardens on Saturday is:
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.
360 Chartered Accountants are urging business owners to attend their next popular Saturday morning surgery to learn how cloud accounting can simplify the running of their financial affairs.
As the region’s only gold-accredited Xero provider, the Hull and East Yorkshire-based firm say that they are getting more and more enquiries about how to use the software to its full effect.
Internationally exhibiting Dutch artist Philip Akkerman will visit Ferens Art Gallery on Thursday 1 June to give a masterclass on painting and an informative and entertaining lecture on Dutch painting.
Akkerman, who has works on display at the Ferens Art gallery, paints almost exclusively self-portraits in his own distinctive style will be instructing participants on the secrets of the ‘Old Masters’ in an intimate environment.
Local bus company EYMS has announced that its popular Moors Explorer bus from Hull, Hessle, Cottingham and Beverley to the North York Moors will run again during Summer 2017.
Moors Explorer is the only direct public transport route up to the North York Moors from the Hull and East Riding area, and is especially loved by ramblers, who use it to access parts of the Moors which are otherwise inaccessible for those without a car.
GP practices across Hull and East Riding will be open as usual on Monday. However many are still bringing their IT and clinical systems back on-line following the cyber-attack, which took place on Friday 12 May 2017 and affected many organisations around the world.
Some practices will not yet have full access to patient records, prescriptions, appointment systems and in some cases telephone systems.
The line-up for the country’s biggest festival for unsigned and emerging musical talent was announced with a special performance on a rooftop in Hull.
The politically charged punk noisemakers and “thick-skinned DIY” band LIFE, fresh from playing SXSW and with a new album about to drop, were also announced as the headliner for Humber Street Sesh, which takes place on August 5 when crowds of 30,000 are expected to descend on Hull Marina.
12,000 people flocked to the High Street and Museums Quarter in for the 2016 event and on Saturday 13 May, the area will once again be transformed into a medieval market place.
Hanse Day celebrate’s Hull historic place in the Hanseatic Leage, an international commercial and defensive confederation of merchant guilds and market towns.
The line-up for Hull’s first children’s literature festival has been confirmed ahead of free tickets being released next week.
The Big Malarkey Festival will bring together writers, illustrators, cartoonists, performers, musicians and artists to a fantastical tented village for children inside East Park to celebrate children’s literature in all its forms and invite creativity through activities and workshops.
Employment in the city is now the highest on record, with increases in employment for the sixth consecutive quarter.
The number of people in work has risen by a significant 800 people in the latest quarter, compared to the previous quarter.