Bellway Homes welcomed local community members to its Bishop’s Gate development in Beverley on Saturday for a summer celebration and the grand opening of the new show homes.
In partnership with local business, Alpacas At The Field, Bellway Homes provided a unique and engaging experience, allowing attendees to explore the development with alpacas. Additionally, one lucky visitor won the opportunity to become an alpaca handler for the day.
A team of licensing compliance officers from Hull City Council, Wolverhampton Council, and Humberside Police conducted safety checks on Hull taxis and hackney carriages.
Recently, joint checks have been conducted several times, with the most recent one taking place on July 24. At random, taxis are stopped and thoroughly inspected, including checking the vehicle and the driver’s documentation. There are a number of taxis licensed in Wolverhampton that operate in Hull, which is permitted under licensing laws and regulations.
Beverley’s multi-faceted cultural offer includes a tradition of annual festivals, live arts and performances, visual arts, craftspeople, and heritage buildings. Together they enrich the fabric of our lovely town, the region, and its community.
Hull has maintained its status as one of the country’s top locations for the delivery of cycle training to children, according to new figures from The Bikeability Trust.
Between April 2023 and March 2024, 92% of Year 6 pupils in the city received either Level 1 and 2 or Level 2 Bikeability training (3,212 children, in total), putting Hull in the top 10 alongside Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council, Plymouth City Council, Kirklees Council, Warrington Borough Council, North Lincolnshire Council, North East Lincolnshire Council, Lancashire County Council, Cambridgeshire County Council and Leeds City Council.
Tesco’s Beverley store has been working with the Trussell Trust’s East Yorkshire Foodbank for over eight years to help fight hunger in our local area.
The store has a permanent collection point for customer donations which in the last three months alone has resulted in almost three thousand meals going to local people in need. Tesco also helps by making an annual contribution to Trussell Trust.
The Beverley Grand Prix, presented by Wren Kitchens, was a fantastic success; hundreds of cyclists raced around the town centre, for six hours of cycling events from four to 10pm. It was the first such event in the town since 2017.
The event featured six rides and races, including the finale of the British Cycling National Circuit Series, which was won by Matthew Bostock, of Ribble Rebellion
Retirees looking to downsize and live their retirement to the full are being invited to be amongst the first to secure their dream home at the new McCarthy Stone Retirement Living Plus development on Langholm Close, Beverley.
This comes as the UK’s leading manager and developer of retirement communities has announced that apartments at Westwood Manor are now available to reserve off-plan, with construction set to complete later this year.
Three-times Olympic gold medal winning cyclist Ed Clancy OBE is getting ready to ride in the Beverley Grand Prix presented by Wren Kitchens on Friday 26 July.
A former winner of the Beverley race, Ed said he has fond memories of the competition and is glad it has returned to the town for 2024.
East Riding is celebrating being breastfeeding friendly this World Breastfeeding Week with a Big Breastfeed.
World Breastfeeding Week, 1-7 August, provides an opportunity to highlight and celebrate East Riding’s Breastfeeding Friendly Scheme and the support available to breastfeeding parents. As part of this a variety of events are taking place that families can get involved in.
Historical memories of an East Riding landmark, local residents and their rural lives are now available for all to listen to.
East Riding Archives has released digital recordings of interviews with more than 60 people who worked in the countryside around Skidby Mill, near Cottingham, in the first half of the 20th century.
The teams at a Thixendale rapeseed oil business and a Hunmanby brewery put their best foot forward for a sponsored walk recently, raising £5000 for charity.
Teams from Breckenholme (including representatives from Yorkshire Rapeseed Oil, Charlie & Ivy’s, and The Honest Bean Co) and Wold Top Brewery met at Breckenholme Farm in Thixendale to walk 31 miles across the Yorkshire Wolds to Hunmanby Grange, home to Wold Top.
Career-developing volunteer positions for this July’s Beverley Puppet Festival are open for applications.
“The festival is looking for volunteers with community spirit, love of the arts and an interest in ensuring a great experience for visitors,” said Vicky Yannoula, festival director (trainee), and volunteer manager and trainer.
Preparation works are to begin for a planned £49m scheme to create a new relief road for Howden.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council is due to start initial work on Monday 1 July to prepare for the creation of the new Howden Relief Road which will link the A614 Thorpe Road with Station Road.
Denis Healy has been an East Riding councillor in Beverley since 2016 and is the Leader of the Liberal Democrat opposition on the East Riding of Yorkshire Council.
He retired last year from his day job with a leading engineering institution to concentrate on serving his residents as their councillor.
People in East Riding are being cautioned about the use of fake versions of the drug Ozempic.
Ozempic is a drug prescribed to people with type 2 diabetes in order to lower their blood sugar levels, with the active ingredient semaglutide. However a global alert has been issued by the World Health Organisation (WHO) about fake versions being circulated to people to help lose weight.
Bishop Burton College is delighted to announce several of their Level 3 Extended Diploma in Policing students have been accepted into the Police.
Ella Edeson, Harrison Mann, Alfie Chapman, James Lancaster, Ivan Bartle-Milner and Adnan Kadric who will complete the two-year course this summer will be joining Humberside Police; and Mia Begg and Phoebe Redhead North Yorkshire Police.
Janet Street-Porter CBE has been announced as the guest speaker of this year’s Women of Achievement Awards.
Organised by Women in Business Hull, the Women of Achievement Awards will take place on Friday 15 November from 12-5pm. The region’s biggest celebration of women in business, the unique awards champion the achievements of women who either run their own business or hold a leading role in their profession, industry, organisation or charity.
Don’t miss Early Bird tickets for Sewerby Winter Woodland. The tickets go on sale on Friday, 28 June at 10.30am. There is no need to register for a discount, just head on over to www.sewerbyhall.co.uk/winterwoodland. Not able to pay the full amount straight away?