Beverley’s Wednesday Market will be adding some international flavours from this month.
Next Wednesday (15 March) sees the start of Street Food @ Beverley Wednesday Market, a new initiative bringing new stallholders to the town selling tasty street food from across the world as well as locally sourced products.
Thousands of potential holidaymakers are getting the opportunity to find out all about Hull and the East Riding from Visit Hull & East Yorkshire (VHEY) at a series of holiday and travel shows across the country.
VHEY recently had a stand at the north’s most inspirational event dedicated to showcasing the best in travel, the Manchester Destinations Holiday & Travel Show
For the second year, Beverley has been shortlisted in the Coach Friendly Destination category at the British Coach Tourism Awards.
The town narrowly missed out on last year’s accolade but is back in contention for 2017 after winning judges over with a submission that highlighted the town itself
With less than a month until the record breaking Paul Roggeman European Open Beach Championship (EOBC), the world’s largest three-day beach angling festival, entries are reeling in.
The event, renamed in memory of its founder, celebrates its 24th birthday this year and will run from Friday, 24 to Sunday, 26 February, with an estimated 1,000 anglers returning to the East Yorkshire Coast, with its HQ at Sand Le Mere Holiday Village, hoping to reel in a share of £35,000 in prize funds.
Funding has once again been awarded to the Holderness Coast Fisheries Local Action Group (FLAG) by the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund, to continue its valuable work assisting the East Riding’s coastal communities and local fishing industry.
There is funding available for the fishing industry, fishing communities and groups and organisations involved in the social, economic and environmental wellbeing of the Holderness coast from the FLAG initiative.
Graham Stuart joined East Riding Councillor Jane Evison and a group of constituents as he rode on the Holderness Area Rural Transport (HART) bus to celebrate its achievements and promote its bid to become a registered NHS non-emergency patient transport provider in 2017.
Founded in 2003 to tackle transport needs in Holderness, HART has gone from strength to strength and now has nine vehicles covering the coast from Bempton to Spurn including the market towns of Driffield, Hedon, Withernsea and Hornsea.
Organisers of the Beverley Festival of Christmas have hailed this year’s event as the most successful yet, with an estimated 60,000 people attending the festivities on Sunday, 11 December.
The festival benefitted enormously from an increased footprint, which took in North Bar and Flemingate.
There’s never been a better time to sign up for an adult learning course, with East Riding of Yorkshire Council launching its new course guide for spring 2017.
Aimed at people aged 19 years and over, the guide is full of courses starting in January that can help East Riding residents improve their skills to get a job, gain a new qualification or learn something completely new.
There is just under a week to go until the annual Beverley Festival of Christmas on Sunday, 11 December, from 10am-4pm, and final preparations are being put in place.
This year’s event starts with a parade from Wednesday Market to Saturday Market and will include an appearance from Santa and his reindeer, marching bands, Bernese mountain dogs
New electrical power points and street lighting in the pedestrian precinct of Goole is now complete, thanks to £8,760 from East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s High Street Fund.
Power Up the Precinct is a project by Goole Town Council, working with Business in Goole (BIG), and complements the Goole Portas funded urban realm works, town centre seating though the Renaissance Small Projects Fund….
The annual Beverley Festival of Christmas returns for 2016 on Sunday, 11 December, from 10am-4pm, and will take place at venues and locations across the town.
The countdown has begun in the search for the region’s remarkable tourism businesses, with the launch of the 2017 Remarkable East Yorkshire Tourism Awards
Graham Stuart MP visited the Adult Learning Centre in Beverley to meet management, tutors and learners and to celebrate the Centre’s success in helping local people
A new visitor’s guide, supported by Enterprise Inns, has been produced by tourism partnership Visit Hull & East Yorkshire (VHEY) to promote the historic public houses of Beverley.
Some of the most famous works by local artist David Hockney are breathing new life into a pedestrian lane in the centre of Beverley.
You are never too old to learn new skills – that is the message from an East Riding woman who has been developing her expertise in the world of computing thanks to adult learning courses.
A new academic year has started at the council’s adult learning centre in Beverley and, whilst enrolment on courses is high, there are still places available.
Following the success of the Official Start of this year’s Tour de Yorkshire, the historic streets of Beverley will again transform into a cycling circuit as some of the country’s top riders