Technology

Young People Can Be Safer on Facebook With New App

July 13, 2010
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Humberside Police are urging Facebook users across the East Riding to add a new application to make them safer online. The UK’s national law enforcement agency dedicated to child protection – the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre – and Facebook, the biggest social networking site, have joined forces to develop the initiative. For the first time, it will give all Facebook users in the UK – and especially…

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Stanifords Estate Agents

June 24, 2010
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Located within the heart of this historic East Yorkshire Market Town, the Beverley Office of Stanifords.com provides a wide variety of properties to suit all requirements.  We assure a first class and truly professional service, whether buying or selling, you can expect to receive help from qualified, knowledgeable and experienced staff who will be on hand to assist in every step of the way. With two superbly situated branches, as…

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Counting Votes at the Beverley Leisure Centre

May 7, 2010
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Pictures from yesterday evening at the Beverley Leisure Centre, votes for the Beverley & Holderness constituency were counted as the Election finally came to an end. The ballot boxes started to arrive just after 10pm though a long process followed of sorting counting and recounting in order to declare a winner. Given all the technology in the world these days this process seemed very long and drawn out. With any…

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Acklams New Elite Coach Manufactured by Yorkshire Based Plaxton

March 5, 2010
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Customers of Acklams Coaches in Beverley enjoyed a grand day out in Scarborough this week as the company took delivery of the latest addition to its fleet. Paul and Alan Acklam were joined by over 30 valued customers on a visit to the Plaxton factory in Scarborough where their new 51-seater Elite coach was built. The group toured the factory to see how Plaxton’s skilled workforce design and build luxury…

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Lincoln Cathedral Diana Certificate of Excellence

March 3, 2010
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2 Volunteers from CSV East Riding’s Vinvolved Team attended the Diana Princess of Wales Award Ceremony in Lincoln Cathedral Chapter House last Friday. They were there to collect a much-deserved Certificate of Excellence on behalf of the project’s Youth Action Team. The Mayor of Lincoln, The Right Worshipful, Councillor David Gatrick, presented Kayleigh Cooper and Jamie Baker with the award and thanked them for their efforts in the community. The…

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Students’ Designs Turn Waste into Fashion

February 26, 2010
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Two students from East Riding College have taken part in a competition to turn discarded clothing into high fashion. Zoe Oakes and Faye Theabould, who are both first year students on the  National Certificate in Fashion and Clothing at the College’s Bridlington campus, designed and created dresses using pre-worn and charity shop garments as part of the contest organised by East Riding of Yorkshire Council. The competition aimed to highlight…

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Film & Sound Archive Opening at Treasure House

February 17, 2010
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From Friday, 12 February, a free digital film and sound archive with access to footage which brings the region’s past to life will open to all. People using the award-winning new archive will be able to see the region after the blitz, local industry, life in the towns and villages of the East Riding and even the wreckage of the Howden R38 Airship crash in 1921. Sound archives including interviews…

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A Slice of Iron Age Technology Coming to Beverley

December 15, 2009
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The Treasure House, Beverley, is this week taking delivery of a superb replica of one of the swords from the South Cave Weapons Cache, a unique collection of Iron Age swords and spears found by metal detectorists in 2002. The sword and scabbard have been produced by Roland Williamson of Cheltenham-based firm Bodgit & Bendit, which makes high quality reproductions of historical artefacts from a variety of time periods. Roland…

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HSBC

August 3, 2009
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Headquartered in London, HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world. HSBC’s international network comprises around 8,500 offices in 86 countries and territories in Europe, the Asia-Pacific region, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa. With listings on the London, Hong Kong, New York, Paris and Bermuda stock exchanges, shares in HSBC Holdings plc are held by around 220,000 shareholders in 119 countries and…

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Dee Atkinson & Harrison

July 19, 2009
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Originally established in 1885, Dee Atkinson & Harrison has long been involved with property sales, agriculture and the sale of fine arts in the East Riding Areas. With high profile Residential Estate Agency offices in the Market Towns of Driffield and Beverley, and the West Hull villages of Hessle and Swanland, we provide a friendly and professional service to house buyers and sellers alike. We have invested heavily in technology…

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