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Businesses are being asked to show their commitment to arts and culture by signing a new charter. The Hull and East Yorkshire Creative Charter is the first of its kind in the UK, according to arts collaboration partnership HEY Creative. Companies are asked to display local artwork and share details of arts events on their social media channels. Launching the scheme on Monday, Max May, HEY Creative's chief executive, said Read more

A cute little penguin chick has hatched at Sewerby Hall & Gardens – the third grandchild of the late Rosie, who was one of the world’s oldest Humbolt penguins.  The eight-week-old chick was born on Easter Monday, 8 April – the exact same date as their one-year-old, big sister Crackle.  The new Humbolt penguin is still being cared for in their nest by proud parents Twinnie and Sigsbee and hasn’t Read more

Up to 50 six-foot-high rats will feature in a radical new sculpture trail across Hull and East Yorkshire to raise funds for the vital work of The Daisy Appeal at Castle Hill Hospital Organisers hope to raise up to £250,000 by encouraging organisations across the region to support this unique public art initiative by sponsoring the distinctly decorated giant Rats.  The ‘Mischief of Rats' will be unleashed in the summer Read more

The neighbourhood policing team and local partnerships will be holding a residents meeting at Beverley Minster on Friday 31st May at 6pm. Come and join us for local updates on ongoing work and an opportunity to ask questions.

The popular butcher shop in Wednesday Market, Ye Olde Pork Shoppe, is due to close later this month. Its bright red frontage and period signage has been a landmark in the Beverley town centre for over half a century. Many residents will have shopped there and remember the lengthy queues outside the shop on Christmas Eve as customers waited to collect their turkeys. A letter from the shop's team has Read more

Weel Road, which leads to the Household Waste Recycling Site, is to be resurfaced between its junction with Main Street, Tickton, to the vehicle access to Holland Farm, which is north of the metal bridge leading to Grovehill Road, Beverley. East Riding Council is spending £140,000 to upgrade the narrow road and work is due to start on Monday 11 March and take two weeks to complete, with work carried Read more

There are 2.4 million adults in England alone – over 7% of the working age population – who can barely read or cannot read at all. Read Easy Hull and District works to provide free, one-to-one coaching to adults who want to learn to read via its trained volunteer Reading Coaches - but it desperately needs more. The group affiliated to the national charity Read Easy UK in August 2021, and began Read more

East Riding of Yorkshire Council today (February 8) approved its annual budget which leaders said would put "residents first and at its heart." A statement from the council's Conservative Group said that at a time when many councils were failing to produce a balanced budget and were declaring section 114 notices (cutting all but essential services), East Riding Council was not cutting services and was investing: 80k in a 20mph Read more

Objections to the plans for the new Beverley Household waste and recycling centre have well exceeded 2,600. East Riding Council plans to build the new site, which will be much larger than the current one in Weel, in Ings Road, off Grange Way in Molescroft. Objections from Molescroft, Tickton and Routh Parish Councils and the Beverley Town Council have been lodged against the plan, claiming there would be a loss of Read more