East Riding Archives, based at the Treasure House in Beverley, started cataloguing on its collections database in January 2000 and has recently completed its 400,000th entry.
It’s taken 18 years of hard work to get there and has meant a cataloguing rate of, on average, 22, 222 documents per year.
Colleagues from William Jackson Food Group gathered at their pub, The Ferguson Fawcett Arms in Walkington, to launch a Text Donate service to help local children this Christmas.
Also joining the Hull-based family business, which owns Jackson’s Bakery and Aunt Bessie’s, were the Cash for Kids’ mascot Courage the Cat and Viking FM presenters Alex Duffy and Darren Spence.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council has announced that is it to carry out emergency repairs to the carriageway on the B1230 Keldgate Road (the road from Walkington to Beverley) near the cattle grid on the Westwood from Monday 20 to Wednesday 22 March, 2017.
The works will be carried out between 09.30 and 15.30 on all three days, and the road will be completely closed between those times. Traffic will be diverted via Bentley and the A164
Hull and East Yorkshire’s premier tourism awards, the REYTAs, have achieved record entries yet again.
And such was the quality, the organisers, Visit Hull and East Yorkshire (VHEY) had to introduce an additional category during the short-listing process because of the “overwhelming” numbers vying for the honour of Remarkable Tourism Event.
Beverley businesswoman Niki Clappison made a life changing decision to move out of hospitality at the Barn House in Walkington and into property development
Viking FM’s charity Cash for Kids launch their annual gift appeal, Mission Christmas this week. The Mission Christmas appeal strives to ensure no child goes without a gift at Christmas
Rathlin Energy UK have issued a response to the public meetings that were in Beverley and Bishop Burton, the statement released by the company who operate the exploration site at Crawberry Hill read;
Humberside Police are again warning residents in Beverley to be vigilant following a high number of burglaries in the area. A total of 15 houses have been burgled in recent weeks.
Beverley Athletic Club’s Carla Stansfield was first female runner to complete the Burton Pidsea 10k road race last weekend. She was also first runner overall for Beverley, completing the flat, rural route in 37:14
A poll conducted in Beverley this weekend by the Beverley & Holderness Labour Party revealed that an overwhelming majority of those who took part said they opposed fracking.