The race starts at 11.15 next to the Minster in Eastgate and finishes in Wednesday Market. The fastest runners will complete the course in about 30 minutes while the slowest are expected to take no longer than 80 minutes. The race route passes along the following roads: • Wednesday Market • Lord Roberts Road • Champney Road • Lairgate • North Bar Within • North Bar Without • York Road…
The summer of 2011 is set to bring a new surge of excitement to the East Riding, when ‘Angels In Action’ help to bring you live music, family fun activities and electrifying entertainment. Angels in Action, the Youth in Action initiative being rolled out by a group of young people from the Beverley-based CSV East Riding project, is now in flight according to the coach, Sue Dudill. The team is…
Police in Beverley are appealing for the victim of an alleged assault to come forward. The incident occurred on Saturday 2 April 2011at approximately 0145hrs outside of the Cross Keys Hotel, Lairgate, Beverley. A man was allegedly knocked to the floor and punched in the head several times by another man. The victim of the assault is said to have been bleeding heavily and left the scene, heading in the…
The Beverley Folk Festival (Folk, Acoustic, Roots) will be presenting its first pre-festival warm-up concert of the year at its partner venue, FRUIT in Hull’s Old Town, on Thursday 7th April, featuring some of the best local talent around today. As well as one of Hull’s favourite bands, Circus Envy, it will be bringing two of the region’s best young bands to Hull; Blackbeard’s Tea Party from York and Sea…
Formed by Belfast born five-string banjo player Pat McGarvey in 2006 and taking their name from the groundbreaking multi-racial union of sharecroppers and non-landowning tenant farmers founded in Arkansas in the 1930’s (the Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union), the Edinburgh-based Southern Tenant Folk Union are now the most highly rated folk and bluegrass outfit in the UK today. Now with their third album they’ve continued to appropriate themes and ancient sounding…
Former Minster and Beverley High School pupil Selina Marshall developed a talent for playing the violin whilst at school. A talent which has seen her achieve incredible success with her band Zenith & DJ Nadir in Mexico City where they have recently launched a new album. A passion for music inspired Selina and her band members to develop their own record label IDM Records (Impacto Diffusion Music). The label launched…
Take That fans who missed out during the recent stampede for ticket sales to the 2011 tour still have the opportunity to hear their songs in 2011. This opportunity also comes to a field near Beverley. ‘Back for Good’, the countries leading Take That Tribute act will be headlining the Saturday evening slot of the 2011 Tribfest festival and performing a range of classics to thousands of local festival goers…
Ben Shires spent his youth reading books, cataloguing stamps and treading the boards in various school productions. The development of the Longcroft Performing Arts centre presented lanky-beanpole Ben with many exciting opportunities and after starring roles in Wind in The Willows, Sweeney Todd and My Fair Lady he developed a taste for the spotlight. After leaving school, Ben joined bands, recorded an E.P and made some hilariously clever YouTube videos…
Organisers of The Beverley Folk festival are thrilled to announce Barbara Dickson on Saturday and Bellowhead on Sunday as two of the headliners at this year’s festival taking place from 17 – 19 June at Beverley Leisure Complex. Chris Wade, Artistic Director of the festival said “I am delighted that we have been able to book these two bands for this year’s festival. Barbara Dickson and her band reflect the…
Armstrongs Social Club is a members club traditionally known in Beverley as somewhere you can have a great night in a friendly and safe environment. As well as live music and regular member’s events we will be introducing two great new events. Firstly we will be hosting adult ballroom dance lessons from Sunday Jan 30th onwards, from 6.45pm till 7.45pm. Dancing has always been a big part of the club…
James Ash, Managing Director of The New Vintage Clothing Ltd has just returned from a successful trip at The Birmingham NEC were The Clothes Show Live was hosted. With more than 150,000 visitors over the 6 day period it certainly wasn’t for the faint hearted. “I knew we were going to have to work hard for our money in order to cover all the overheads involved and with the ‘big…
Come to the Party, celebrate this great festival and get a taster of its 2011 activities Following the success of its collaboration with FRUIT during the Freedom Festival in Hull, earlier this year, the Beverley Festival is teaming up again with this new Hull venue, to celebrate Xmas with a special night of great artists, on Saturday 11th December. Aiming to give a flavour of what visitors to the festival…
Laura Douse, 26 makes it look so easy singing with her guitar across her lap and there seem to be no nerves or over excitement, she just genuinely wants people to enjoy her music. Laura says that she has always loved music and at 16 years of age, taught herself to play the guitar and started writing her own songs but didn’t have the confidence to perform in public until…
Need a imtidation free and friendly was to de stress, lose weight and feel good? YES?! Then SGB Fitness is the place for you, your family and your friends! SGB Fitness is the newly owned Minster Health and Leisure. Steph Booty, a Personal Trainer bought the club in July 2010 and has made some massive improvements, investing £12,000 so far and counting. There has been two extensions to the gym…
Local bands The Estuary Dwellers, The Mark Robinson Experience and Woolicane all performed live last night on Humber.tv Humber.tv has started to offer regular live music nights from their ‘Mission Control’ in the heart of Beverley. Filmed in front of an audience the video is then streamed through their web site in real time for users to watch. HU17.net Picture Gallery: Click on the thumbnail picture below to enlarge the…
In a time of economic instability you may be forgiven for forgetting what a new and exciting business looks like. So just to remind us, here is Beverley’s number one vintage guru and businessman James Ash, with The New Vintage Clothing Company. Fellow Beverlonian James has recently fulfilled his dream of creating his own fashion label and online store which specialises in unique vintage clothing, reworked vintage pieces and vintage…
Jane Nixon of Something Special Celebration Village, shares a sneak preview of what we can expect 2011 Brides-to-be will be floating down the aisle in. This year’s Harrogate British Bridal Exhibition was attended by all reputable Bridal Retailers eager to view the stunning new collections for the forthcoming season. The new collections are inspired with floral adornments and trims, both on the neckline, waist, shoulders and hemlines. Designs are strongly…
On sat 23rd oct, the Beverley’s ‘Class of the 80’s’ Reunion fundraising disco will start at 7.30pm and you can be sure of a night filled with all the magic tunes from the fantastic 80’s! The decade that brought us the rubik’s cube, neon socks, leg warmers, care bears and most of all some brilliant bands, some that have even stood the test of time and still top the charts….