East Yorkshire Buses is excited to announce a series of significant updates to its bus services, set to take effect from 10th November 2024.
In response to customer feedback, these changes are designed to simplify routes, improve reliability and provide more frequent services to passengers across Hull and surrounding areas.
With Barratt and David Wilson Homes’ new Key Worker Deposit Contribution scheme, East Yorkshire’s key workers can now qualify for up to £15,000 towards the deposit on a new home.
In East Yorkshire, the scheme has been introduced to Queens Court, Poppy Fields, Fleet Green, Harrier Chase, Minster View, Harland Park, and Hesslewood Park.
As the World Cup clashes for the first time with a Danish Christmas tradition that has been an annual event in the region for nearly 50 years, this year’s celebration will take on a football theme.
Denmark and France’s big match will be screened live on TV during the Scandinavian Christmas Market on Saturday 26 November.
Hull broadband provider Pure Broadband has scooped a national award as customers continue to turn to it to supply its ultrafast connection.
The Hessle-based company beat competition from across the UK to win the Best Fibre Marketing Campaign at the 2022 UK Fibre Awards thanks to its fresh, new brand identity and proposition: ‘No ifs, no buts, no buffering. Just really good broadband.’
Rural broadband specialists Quickline Communications has announced plans to relocate its headquarters in East Yorkshire as part of its ambitious growth strategy.
Quickline, which recently unveiled its new brand identity, has doubled the size of its workforce in the last six months and has outgrown its current offices in Hessle.
Global healthcare giant Reckitt gave a glimpse of its efforts behind the scenes which protected staff and customers during the pandemic and led to double success in a business awards scheme.
Another double winner, Synergi Finance, highlighted the innovative approach which brought success in the People in Business Awards (PIBA) as well as in the National Association of Commercial Finance Brokers (NACFB) awards.
The proportion of Year 6 children in the East Riding who have been awarded their first preference of secondary school for September 2022 has risen again this year to 97%.
Parents and carers across the East Riding, as well as nationally, will find out which secondary school their children will attend in the next academic year, which starts in September.
A Night Upstairs With Barrie Rutter, November 14th, 7.30pm at the Wrecking Ball Arts Centre, Wrecking Ball Music & Books.
Barrie Rutter’s last appearance in public was in January 2020 at Hull Truck, sharing the stage with his friend and colleague Eliza Carthy. The audience was unaware that two days previously he had been diagnosed with throat cancer.
Two site managers from Barratt Developments Yorkshire East have won a top national award for the quality of the homes they are building in Hull.
Paul Dearnley, Site Manager at the housebuilder’s Hesslewood Park development in Hessle and Mark Greenley from Harrier Chase in Brough, each landed a Pride in the Job Quality Award from the National House Building Council (NHBC) having impressed judges with their dedication, passion, commitment, and leadership.
Leading law firm Rollits LLP has announced the promotion of one of its specialist employment lawyers to Partner.
Caroline Neadley, who joined the firm in October 2017, steps up from the role of Associate having performed exceptionally well and contributed to all aspects of the employment team’s success.
Construction work has begun on a new enterprise centre in Beverley, paving the way for around 30 companies to make it their new home once completed early next year.
The £4.8million development on Grovehill Road will become a landmark building in the market town and will offer superior facilities for new and existing businesses, regenerating a former demolition site and visually enhancing the immediate area.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council, as part of the Reopening High Streets Safely Fund (ROHSS), has commissioned specialist consultants The Retail Group to write COVID Recovery Action Plans for town centres across the region.
The Attestation ceremony of the latest intake of 50 new student officers took place at the Police Training Centre in North Hull.
It means that the total numbers of Police Officers at Humberside Police to 2074, the highest number in 10 years.
Local housebuilder Barratt Developments Yorkshire East is continuing to support NHS workers in Hull by extending their NHS Deposit Scheme until June 2021.
The move follows the popularity and success of the NHS Deposit Scheme, which has so far benefited 39 key workers in Hull, 26 of which were first-time buyers.
Major improvement work is to be carried out in three arterial roads in the east and west of the city.
Holderness Road, Hessle Road and Anlaby Road will be undergoing extensive resurfacing works as part of a phased programme to improve the routes for motorists and cyclists.
A charity which is working to establish an internationally renowned scanning centre in the Hull and Humber area is urging cyclists and runners across the region to show their support in two major fundraising events.
The Daisy Appeal, which is planning to open a Molecular Imaging Research (MIR) Centre at Castle Hill Hospital early next year, is targeting the My Prudential RideLondon cycle challenge and the Great North Run to boost its bid to raise £8.2m.
Alongside the good news that Barratt Developments is back constructing and selling homes, six site managers across East Yorkshire have won a top national award for the quality of the homes they are building from the National House Building Council (NHBC).
Emma Hardy MP has signed the Holocaust Educational Trust’s Book of Commitment.
In doing so she pledged her commitment to Holocaust Memorial Day and honouring those who were murdered during the Holocaust as well as paying tribute to the extraordinary Holocaust survivors who work tirelessly to educate young people today.