Pocklington town centre will host a bustling food and drink festival on Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 April.
Taking place in the heart of the town centre, join in the fun from 9am to 6pm on Saturday and 10am to 5pm on Sunday, where stalls will line Market Place, leading to a stage and seating areas in St Peter’s Square.
Building work will be taking place at Fir Trees Nursery School in Beverley – which recently received an Ofsted ‘Outstanding’ rating – to increase nursery places and provide an enhanced offering to children aged 0 – 4 years in the East Riding.
Plans include conversion of an outdoor barn – which is currently used for outdoor activities – into a warm and welcoming indoor space. The main nursery building will also be reconfigured to create three, new open plan spaces, with a free flow pathway connecting them all.
Visitors are in for an egg-citing treat this Easter at Sewerby Hall and Gardens, with a fun filled line-up of family-friendly activities taking place throughout the school holidays.
From Monday 7 April to Sunday 20 April, visitors can enjoy an exciting mix of live entertainment, hands-on workshops, and interactive experiences in the setting of the historic Sewerby estate.
Pocklington Children’s Centre sessions will be relocating from 1 June, as the existing building will be demolished as part of Woldgate School and Sixth Form College new build school.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council is engaging with families who attend the sessions about how these run in the future.
A free theatre performance inspired by the new ‘Yes to Quit’ smoking campaign will be performed in Trinity Market and St Stephen’s on Friday April 11.
The campaign launched in Hull and other areas at the end of March, with TV, radio, transport and social media ads. It asks audiences ‘What will you miss?’ more than smoking, such as weddings, births and special time with loved ones. The question is a reality for many smokers, with two in three dying too soon of smoking-related conditions.
Hull City Council and the region’s two main bus operators – East Yorkshire Buses and Stagecoach East Midlands – have welcomed the Department for Transport’s (DfT) announcement of additional funding for the rollout of electric buses in Hull.
The Government confirmed it has made £3,907,844 available to increase the scope of the region’s ZEBRA2 (zero emission bus regional areas) project and enable the purchase of 42 more electric buses for use in the city – bringing the total number of new electric buses that will soon be operating in the region to 82.
East Yorkshire Buses is delighted to announce the return of its popular Coaster services, 12 and 13, commencing daily operations from April 5, 2025. These services will provide convenient and scenic transportation between Bridlington, Filey, and Scarborough, running up to every 30 minutes!
National homebuilder, Ashberry Homes has turned forever home dreams into reality for a well-travelled couple after they fell in love with one of their new build homes in Beverley.
Steve Wright and his husband, also named Steve (but known affectionately as ‘t’other Steve’) have been together for 17-years; during which time they’ve moved home several times; calling South London, Bridlington and Beverley home. But their moving days are now done and dusted after they found their forever home in a town they both call the friendliest place they’ve ever lived.
Touring 28-piece band, Oddfellows Brass, is bringing its popular performance to Beverley’s Masonic Hall on Saturday 12 April.
The ticketed public concert, organised by local friendship group Humber Wolds Oddfellows, starts at 2.30pm.
Students at Malet Lambert Secondary School in Hull are marking the start of a new region-wide campaign to get more people to quit smoking for good across the city.
The ‘Yes to Quit’ campaign has been launched across TV, radio, transport links and social media throughout Yorkshire and the Humber.
East Yorkshire is set to enchant fans of J.R.R. Tolkien this spring when sculptures celebrating the area’s influence on the fantasy author’s early writing are unveiled to the public.
Recovering from Trench Fever during the first World War, Tolkien spent nearly 18 months in Hull and East Yorkshire and the region’s landscape is believed to have been the inspiration for some of his stories, including ‘The Hobbit’ and ‘The Lord of the Rings’.
The Yorkshire division of national homebuilder, Bellway Homes has produced a stunning video of its Bishop’s Gate development in Beverley, which not only showcases the homes being built in the town, but also brings to life some of its biggest and best attractions.
The two minute fly-by video takes in the Minster, markets, North Bar, racecourse, Coronation Garden, Beverley Westwood and much more; highlighting why the town really is the perfect place to call home.
A new affordable housing project on Springfield Avenue in Bridlington is under construction.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s development includes thirty new council homes, 24 one-bedroom bed flats and six two-bedroom flats.
Hull City Council’s Cabinet has today (Monday 24 March) approved a funding allocation of over £7.6million from the Department for Transport (DfT) that will be used to deliver a number of proposals set out in its Bus Service Improvement Plan (BSIP) for 2025/2026.
The BSIP sets out how the council, working alongside local bus operators, Stagecoach East Midlands and East Yorkshire Buses, through the Hull Bus Alliance, will improve bus frequency, pilot new routes and services and introduce fare discounts that will help grow bus passenger numbers, address traffic congestion and improve air quality in the city.
The public will now see exactly what’s being done to tackle potholes, as the Government will now require councils in Yorkshire and the Humber to prove progress or face losing cash.
From mid-April, local authorities will start to receive their share of the Government’s record £1.6bn highway maintenance funding, including an extra £48m for the Yorkshire and the Humber.
Beverley Theatre Company (BTC) are pleased to announce that their next production will be the stage version of the classic BBC comedy series, The Good Life, adapted by Jeremy Sams and based on the scripts by John Esmonde and Bob Larbey.
Matt Jukes, Hull City Council Chief Executive and Local Returning Officer for Hull has today posted the Notice of Election in the Guildhall for the Hull & East Yorkshire Combined Authority Mayoral election, following its publication by the Combined Area Returning Officer, Alan Menzies of East Riding of Yorkshire Council.
The pre-election period is now underway, running from the publication of Notice of Election to the close of polls at 10pm on Thursday 1 May.
Trying to end North Ribb’s long unbeaten run in the Yorkshire Shield Semi Final was always going to be tough ask but Beverley certainly gave it a good go with all the team turning in one of their best performances of the season. The Beavers gave as good as they got for the first half hour of the game and the last 20 minutes, but a Ribblesdale try blitz around the half saw the visitors jump out to a lead that they would not relinquish.