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Local mental health charity Hull and East Yorkshire Mind has announced the relaunch of its “Tea & Talk” campaign for next month’s Mental Health Awareness Week, which runs from May 9th to the 15th. They’re encouraging people to organise bake sales, afternoon teas or whatever they choose in order to raise money and talk about mental health.  Community Fundraiser Marie-Louise Robinson told Beverley FM: “Tea and Talk is a fun Read more

Beverley could be branching out by making formal twinning arrangements  with a third town in Europe. A survey asking for the public’s views on twinning with Fucecchio in Italy is currently on the town council’s website. Beverley is already twinned with Lemgo in Germany and Nogent-sur-Oise in France. Fucecchio is a small town in Tuscany, about 45km from Florence and 38 from Pisa, and, like Beverley, is steeped in local history, Read more

More than 10 years after a plaque was unveiled honouring a Beverley inventor, the town's Civic Society has discovered it was placed on the wrong building. The plaque, meant to be marking the home of William Crosskill, who was born in Beverley in 1799, was placed on the outside of Beverley Register Office, Walkergate House. It's since been discovered he actually lived in the building now housing the Grosvenor Club, Read more

Fire officers were called out at the weekend to help with the rescue of an elderly lady who had broken her ankle in a fall in a wooded area on Newbald Road, Beverley. She was found to be suffering mild hypothermia by the time she was found in the early afternoon on Saturday. The crew used specialist moving equipment and thermal blankets, successfully moving the lady to the roadside, where Read more