Hull City Council has created an ambitious plan to improve bus services across the city after carrying out a major public consultation.
As part of the National Bus Strategy published by the Government in March, all local transport authorities are required to develop a Bus Service Improvement Plan (BSIP), to be reviewed annually.
Hull City Council has appointed Gillian Osgerby as the Project Director to deliver a major transformation and regeneration project in the city.
Gillian will be responsible for delivering the £30.3m Hull Maritime project, funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund and Hull City Council. It involves the transformation of five key maritime treasures — Arctic Corsair, North End Shipyard, Spurn Lightship, Dock Office Chambers and the Hull Maritime Museum.
A local housebuilder has donated £1,000 as part of its Community Fund initiative to the Teenage and Young Adult Cancer Unit, a dedicated care facility at Castle Hill Hospital in Cottingham.
The chosen cause, Teenage Cancer Trust, is a world-class cancer service for young people in the UK, providing life-changing care and support so young people don’t have to face cancer alone, and has developed a specialist Teenage and Young Adult Cancer Unit based within the Queen’s Centre at Castle Hill Hospital, close to the housebuilder’s Poppy Fields development.
East Yorkshire based Blue Aurora Media wins ‘Best Climate Change Omni-Channel Production’ at the Media Innovator Awards 2021 for ‘The Waterline Live’ series of podcasts, webinars, videos and online resources, produced in partnership with Marketing Humber to connect The Waterline Summit with an international audience.
Business leaders and regional investors alongside an excited audience of friends and supporters of regional grant-maker Two Ridings Community Foundation, came together at Birdsall House, Malton to hear six small grassroots charities pitch at a Yorkshire version of Dragons’ Den.
Two fly-tippers have been asked to pay a joint total of £800 after waste was dumped in villages near Beverley and Market Weighton.
The streetscene enforcement team at East Riding of Yorkshire Council has recently dealt with two cases involving the illegal disposal of waste.
With the cold weather fast approaching and the cost of living ever increasing, this winter will be extremely challenging for many people in the region. If you want to help, donate to Two Ridings Community Foundation’s Surviving Winter Fund.
‘Reflections of Japan in East Yorkshire’, a unique exhibition bringing together a selection of items from private collections across East Yorkshire and artwork by Laura Boswell, opens Saturday 16 October at Beverley Art Gallery in the Treasure House.
The idea for the exhibition came about over two years ago when the Japanese Embassy introduced the ‘Japan-UK Season of Culture’, a celebration of the many facets of Japanese culture in the UK.
The CADEY Committee, accompanied by their generous funders Esh Construction and Humber Aid have made a whistle-stop tour of Beverley and Holderness to pay visits to the life-saving public access defibrillators installed over the summer.
The East Riding Festival of Words is hosting a Bestsellers Day on Saturday, 23 October at Beverley Memorial Hall.
The popular event is back for 2021 and will feature four sessions.
Beverley 1330 have confirmed a number of events that will take place to mark key historic milestones of the towns past.
Organisers hope people in the town will take the opportunity to enjoy some of the 9 events that will take place across four day period.
East Riding Libraries are encouraging residents to ‘Get reading, Get listening and Get watching’ for Get Online Week 2021, which runs from Monday, 18 to Sunday, 24 October.
During the week, there will be members of the library team on hand at sessions in Beverley and Bridlington North and on the Gilberdyke Mobile Library to help anyone to start using the huge digital library of eBooks, audiobooks, digital newspapers, magazines and streaming services available completely FREE to East Riding Library members.
Barratt Developments Yorkshire East is celebrating receiving Gold Standard at its show home garden, located in Cottingham at David Wilson Homes’ Harland Park development, as part of its ongoing partnership with The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB).
In Remembrance week 2021, we honour the achievements of one of Hull’s own, Private Jack Cunningham VC, whose story of bravery in the face of the enemy has been brought back to life after the restoration of a 104-year-old piece of cinematic history.
John Cunningham, who was usually known as Jack, came from a traveller family and was the eldest son of Charles Cunningham, a licensed pot hawker and his wife Mary Ann. He had six brothers and just like his father, was a hawker.
A tribute to Beverley’s shipbuilding past is to be officially opened this week. Located by the River Hull on Grove Hill road the tribute highlights an industry that deserves to be remembered.
Employing hundreds of people the industry located in Beverley built over 1000 ships. The first iron ships were built in Beverley back in 1882 by Henry and Joseph Scarr.
One of Redrow’s 13 prestigious awards in the 2021 UK Property Awards is heading to the picturesque village of Swanland, near Hull.
The fully furnished Leamington Lifestyle show home at Swanland Heights has been named as an award winner.
The Princess Royal has recently visited the Defence School of Transport in Leconfield. Princess Anne who is the Colonel in Chief of the Royal Logistic Corps visited 25 Training Regiment RLC and DST at Normandy Barracks in its 25th Anniversary year.
Backing from a global brand is helping a grassroots football club in Beverley continue to flourish.
AFC Tickton is one of the area’s biggest football clubs, with more than 450 players aged from six to 72.