Fraud cases are met frequently in UK through varied forms that lead to unwanted consequences and to victims who are deceived through all sorts of scams.
The first thing to do when you discover you have been the victim of fraud is to alert the police and make a statement in this sense.
Beverley has always been considered a market town. However, this is not to say that businesses have failed to keep up to date with modern technology.
As the younger generation now enters into the entrepreneurial world, a great many opportunities await. Countless small- to medium-sized business owners are beginning to look outside of traditional boundaries in order to appeal to a wider audience.
The Viewfinder Photographic Society’s (VPS) annual photography exhibition in Skidby gets underway once again at the beginning of October.
A popular free to attend event, the work on display is that which is created by members of the club which meets to share their love for photography.
Hull’s brand new £36m venue will be officially opened tomorrow (Thursday 30 August) by music legend Van Morrison.
Van Morrison, who is 72 and from Northern Island has had a string of hits over the decades including Brown Eyed Girl, a song he wrote himself and which was recorded back in 1967.
An online application form has been launched to help speed up the process for people applying for, or renewing blue badge parking permits.
Now the new application process, which has been developed by East Riding of Yorkshire Council alongside the East Riding Disability Action Group, could see those who are automatically eligible receive their blue badge within days rather than weeks.
East Riding College and East Riding of Yorkshire Council have collaborated with local employers to develop a new civil engineering course.
Organisations have identified a gap in local provision of higher-level HNC qualifications in construction and civil engineering. Nationally, there is a shortage of workers in construction and civil engineering qualified at higher levels.
Hull Trains, who operate a direct link between Beverley and London is delighted have revealed the first artist’s impression of the new trains set to hit the tracks as part of a major £60m investment.
From December 2019 onwards, customers will benefit from more seating capacity, enhanced interiors and faster speeds as part of a major £60million investment.
Body cameras are to be worn by civil enforcement officers working in the East Riding for the first time in a move to increase safety and prevent abusive incidents.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council is to supply all members of its civil enforcement team, whose job is to enforce parking regulations across the area, with the body cameras from this week.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council has been handed the keys to its new business centre at Bridgehead Business Park, in Hessle, with contractor – PDR Construction – beginning its final phase of works.
The £3.9 million development, known as ergo, is aimed at the growing renewable energy and environmental technology sectors and will provide a connected environment offering flexible office space, conference facilities, an on-site café and parking.
An East Yorkshire based wireless internet service provider is advising parents to take greater responsibility when children are online, by promoting Safer Internet Day.
Celebrated around the world on Tuesday 6 February 2018, this year’s theme is Create, connect and share respect: a better internet starts with you.
Anyone who’s seen Tom Cruise’s film Minority Report will be familiar with the futuristic predictions it makes for a world characterised by boundless technological possibility.
Strange to say, then, that one Hull company is working with the giants of international gaming and software development to turn some of what it foresaw into reality.
While many people were enjoying the Christmas break and bringing in the New Year the East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s Lifeline and Responder Service were handling thousands of calls from its most vulnerable customers.
Between Christmas Eve, on Sunday 24 December 2017 and Tuesday 2 January 2018, staff at the Lifeline Control Centre, in Driffield dealt with a total of 9,241 incoming and outgoing calls.
Computers have become such a fundamental part of our lives that it is easy to forget that we ever managed without them.
The ubiquity of technology has meant that some long-established practices are falling by the wayside in favour of modern day conveniences.
Marshmallow Laser Feast (MLF) – the creative studio that explores human perception through bleeding edge tech – is set to unleash its latest virtual reality (VR) art installation, A Colossal Wave!, on Hull UK City of Culture 2017, from 1 to 10 December.
Commissioned by the British Council in collaboration with pioneering Canadian artists (Presstube, Dpt. and Headspace), the MLF-spearheaded installation is an artistic extravaganza that combines the latest innovations in interactive and interconnected VR with computer graphic ‘voice fruit’ artworks generated by the public, Newton’s theories of cause and effect, a giant sculpture and a thought-provoking message about marine pollution.
East Yorkshire based wireless internet service provider, Quickline Communications is helping local people feel more confident in using the internet and the devices needed to access it as they support Get Online Week.
As the UK’s biggest annual digital inclusion campaign, Get Online Week has been supported at events across the UK; in libraries, village halls, Job centres and more. Staff and volunteers have helped people to take their next step toward being a confident, capable and safe user of the internet and to #try1thing.
The prominence of eSports and its entertainment factor in the UK has been brought to light recently with the appointment of university graduate Jack Stewart to the newly made position of an eSports journalist for The Daily Mail newspaper.
The Eastbourne graduate had completed a degree in Sports Journalism BA (Hons) at the University of Brighton. He had written about eSports during his course as a topic that he felt passionate about.
A new online service could revolutionise the way patients across Hull and East Riding get medical advice from their GP.
NHS Hull CCG and the East Riding of Yorkshire CCG are using digital technology to bring choice to patients who want to consult online, in many cases avoiding the need to make a visit to the practice altogether.
A Little Weighton based web marketing specialist is one of a handful of national agencies to be selected by internet giant Google to take part in its exclusive Elevator programme.
Getextra, the agency founded by chartered marketer Paul Smith, is the only Google Partner business in Yorkshire that has been invited by the technology behemoth to participate in its training scheme.