Tribfest 2011 East Yorkshire biggest music festival not only includes top quality Tribute acts but further marquees for both Folk and Unsigned acts from across the country. Over the weekend of August 19th – 21st music fans should take the opportunity to check out the Unsigned Acts as well as the main stage performers as some very promsing bands from across the country are on display at the festival at…
East Riding College students have secured an invitation to perform at the prestigious WorldSkills 2011 showcase event in London in October. The group of fashion, media and hair and beauty students – attending both the Beverley and Bridlington campuses – are joining together to put on a mixed media show in front of thousands of spectators at the ExCeL exhibition and conference centre in London. Their performance is a catwalk…
Graham Stuart returned to London Thursday to join with his fellow MPs in denouncing the violence of this week’s riots, ensure more effective maintenance of law and order in future and examine the underlying causes for so many engaging in such outrages. Parliament was recalled from its summer recess for the first time since 2002 to have an emergency debate on the violence in London and cities throughout England. The…
The Barnfathers, along with those named Bairnsfather and Banfather (which are all variations of the same name) are an old English family that we trace back to the time of the Vikings in York. It is believed, due to the results of the Viking DNA Study conducted by University College London in which we participated, that we are related to the Danes who settled in York. The first person we…
An East Riding College worker is celebrating after winning a national award for championing the opinions of learners. Enrichment officer Tracy Underwood was named learner voice practitioner of the year the Learner Voice Awards, organised by the national Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS) in partnership with the National Union of Students. The award recognises Tracy’s efforts to ensure learners are able to give their views on their course and…
De Lacy Spa in Saturday Market Beverley has been presented with East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s Gold Standard Health and Safety Award. The Beauty salon has over the last 3 years gained the Council’ s and Habia (the Hair & Beauty Industry Authority) standard Award which publicly recognises those salons able to demonstrate good standards of health and safety and best practice. The Award will not be renewed should standards…
Off Shoots Musical Theatre Company present the memorable musical, Summer Holiday, which originally starred Sir Cliff Richard and Una Stubbs in the iconic 1963 movie and Darren Day on stage in the 1990s, includes a romantic wedding in Italy as part of the famous road trip from London to Greece in a double-decker bus. Hit Songs include: Bachelor Boy, Dancing Shoes, The Young Ones, Living Doll. Not forgetting the title…
Residents and visitors to Bridlington can enjoy a feast of free sport activities on Sunday, 24 July as the Open Weekend 2011 Beach Sports Festival takes place on the south beach. The festival, organised by the East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s Sport and Play Development Service, will includes fun family activities as well as beach soccer, High 5 netball, cricket and three-versus-three basketball tournaments. Events get underway from 11am in…
Over a thousand teenagers and young adults across the Humber are to benefit from a new sports programme that aims to fulfil the legacy promise made by Seb Coe in Singapore in 2005 to ‘inspire young people to choose sport’. Sportivate will give 14- to 25-year-olds the chance to receive six to eight weeks of coaching in a sport of their choice. Launched by Sport England and The Humber Sports…
Off Shoots Musical Theatre Company present the memorable musical, Summer Holiday, which originally starred Sir Cliff Richard and Una Stubbs in the iconic 1963 movie and Darren Day on stage in the 1990s, includes a romantic wedding in Italy as part of the famous road trip from London to Greece in a double-decker bus. Hit Songs include: Bachelor Boy, Dancing Shoes, The Young Ones, Living Doll. Not forgetting the title…
Tribfest, the country’s leading Tribute music festival is branching out further in 2011 with the addition of the Laughing Cow Comedy Marquee. Not only does the festival have over 80 musical acts but also twenty two comedians as well to bring further fun to the festival weekend of August 19th-21st at Beverley Polo Club The Laughing Cow Comedy Marquee will be running through the weekend and includes dozens of comedians…
Andrew Brant of Beverley Athletic Club is celebrating after setting a new personal best in the Edinburgh Marathon on Sunday. It was his sixth marathon and the first time he had run the distance in less than four hours. He completed the 26 mile course in 3:53:59 – an amazing 10 minutes faster than his time in last month’s London Marathon. Brant has come a long way since his first…
Members of Beverley Athletic Club are making the final preparations for this Sunday’s Hall Construction Beverley 10k which starts next to the Minster in Eastgate at 11.15. Amongst the field of 1200 runners are last year’s winner Darran Bilton, course record holder Andy Lyons and Beverley AC’s top runners James Pearson, Rob Snaith and Matt Chadwick. Bilton has an excellent record in the race but he has not beaten the…
It was a beautiful sunny day for last weekend’s Keswick half-marathon and Beverley Athletic Club’s Steve Evins thoroughly enjoyed the scenic race. Despite running the London Marathon only two weeks before, Evins put in a strong performance on the challenging course in the Lake District. The first six miles through the Newland Valley were particularly hilly and the second half of the race took runners on the undulating road around…
Sunday 1st of May saw the highly competitive Goole judo open competition take place, an event which attracted entrants from as far a field as London. However it was Beverley girl, Holly Bentham who triumphed in the Under 12 years old, less than 48kg category, taking the gold medal. Holly powered into action allowing her to build on her similar success at last year’s event by producing some of the…
The Royal Wedding was celebrated in Beverley as it was across the rest of the UK with street parties. In London around a million people lined the streets as Prince William and Kate Middleton got married at Westminster Abbey. HU17.net Picture Gallery: Click on the thumbnail picture below to enlarge the image to full size [nggallery id=1431] HU17.net Picture Gallery: Click on the thumbnail picture below to enlarge the image…
A Beverley based facialist is offering Mother and Daughter massage taster sessions to celebrate Mother’s Day. Dr Katerina Steventon of FaceWorkshops has created the taster sessions to demonstrate the natural age defying benefits of the three kinds of facial massage that she specialises in and is offering them as a Mother’s Day treat for mums and daughters. Each hour long session comprises a tailored mix of relaxing facial massage techniques…