A year-long hunt is on for the best images of our region’s most iconic landmark, the Humber Bridge.
Each month, the Humber Bridge Board is inviting the public to send in their images that best capture the spirit of that month’s theme, as part of the #YourBridge project, run in association with Hilton Photographic, Hull, and London Camera Exchange, Lincoln High Street.
The brand new Hull Venue will be hosting the biggest Christmas parties in the city next year.
The arena will play host to seven Christmas Party Nights in December 2018 with 600 people at a time set to enjoy a three course meal, live band and DJ. Tickets, priced £39.95, are on sale now.
Hull is planning a £50m cruiser terminal in a bid to attract a new bracket of visitors to the city, which is just about to celebrate the end of its year as the UK Capital of Culture.
Grace Chatterton, project manager – major projects & infrastructure at Hull City Council, told Built Environment Networking’s Hull & Humberside Development Plans conference, that the authority has appointed internal and professional teams to deliver the project.
Hull filmmaker Phil Codd has realised a lifelong dream with the final day’s shooting of his debut feature film, B-Negative.
Phil, a popular composer, musician and filmmaker on the regional arts scene, directed and wrote the full length vampire comedy, B-Negative, which has been produced, shot and cast entirely in Hull and East Yorkshire by his company, Mollusc Films.
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Hull City Council’s Planning Committee refused planning applications to demolish both the Lord Line building and Hydraulic Tower and Pump House.
The locally listed Lord Line building and the Grade II listed Hydraulic Pump House & Tower both sit within St Andrew’s Dock.
Naga Munchetty, journalist and broadcaster will host The Business Day at Bridlington Spa on Friday 8 June 2018, placing business networking at the heart of a day of discovery and insight.
Naga is known for being one of the main presenters on breakfast television. She will be joined on the day by headline speaker Joanna Lumley and also Geoffrey Boycott, as previously announced.
They’re not the likeliest bunch of musicians to get together, it’s fair to say.
But a group of legal eagles from Hull are the driving force behind a charity CD designed to raise funds for Yorkshire Cancer Research.
An exclusive VIP launch party for the American-style barbecue restaurant on Park Row attracted the glitterati of Leeds.
Leeds Rhinos stars Ashton Golding and Richie Myler, soap stars and model Sam Reece were greeted by fire performers as they arrived at the glamorous new venue.
A year of young people’s creativity will be celebrated at LIMITLESS, a two-week festival, running from noon until 9pm, every day this week and until Wednesday 13 December.
Taking over the former Argos building in Lowgate, Hull; the festival is a showcase of work undertaken by children as part of hundreds of activities during the city’s tenure as UK City of Culture.
It is estimated that around 100,000 children run away from home every year. Hull-born Niall Ransome, member of Olivier Award-winning Mischief Theatre Company, explores this important issue in FCUK’D: an alternative show for the festive period, backed by Hull UK City of Culture 2017.
Dealing with themes of abandonment, loyalty, family, and the real experiences of young working-class lads in Britain today. Drawing on his experiences of growing up in Hull, in FCUK’D Niall tells the brutal and heartfelt story of a teenage boy who kidnaps his younger brother in an attempt to flee his decrepit council flat and escape his daily encounters with the authorities.
Eight talented young writers and illustrators have been announced as winners of the J Venn Young Writers’ Competition by Hull Libraries this week.
The youngsters, who range from seven-14 years-old, will see their work in print at the end of the year in an anthology published by Hull Libraries.
Beverley and Holderness MP, Graham Stuart, praised Modular Building Manufacturers Paragon Space as he visited the local business at their Burstwick site. The small company, which employs 11 members of staff, have recently won a five-year hire contract with the NHS to provide temporary consultant rooms for Weybridge Hospital.
Paragon Space have been operating in Burstwick for three years and, having built up from scratch, now design, manufacture and install modular buildings for clients across the UK.
The first ever Weekend of Christmas is taking place this weekend (Saturday and Sunday 2 and 3 December) at Sewerby Hall and Gardens.
Most of the individual events included in the Weekend are free of charge – after payment of admission to Sewerby Hall and Gardens – although there is a small extra charge for the Photobooth and the donkey rides on both days.
The finale of an inspirational year-long project exploring the lives of people living with dementia takes place in Hull this Friday.
The Butterfly Effect, part of the Hull UK City of Culture 2017 programme, has celebrated individual stories whilst inviting people to question their preconceptions of what life with dementia is like through various workshops.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s Pathway team is celebrating after winning the national Social Worker Team of the Year Award 2017.
The team, which supports looked-after young people and care leavers from the age of 16 years, won the award as a result of its outstanding work with children and their families.
The Hull Local Plan has been formally adopted at a meeting of Full Council.
The plan provides a robust and ambitious framework for the development of the city up to 2032, providing certainty for investors and creating the conditions for growth by:
Hull Culture and Leisure has awarded its first annual membership to a local talented athlete, as part of a new scheme to support the city’s future sporting stars reach world-class podiums.
Marko Voronovs, aged nine and from Spring Bank West, Hull is a member of Hull Boxing Centre and has achieved a place on the England Boxing Talent Programme (EBTP).