Hoping for better weather for racing
After the loss of the Hilary Needler Trophy evening meeting last week due to parts of the track being waterlogged, racing on the Westwood is set to resume next Wednesday with a seven-race programme...
View ArticleMembers of Wolds Runners complete Humber Bridge 10k
Sunday 1st June saw three Yorkshire Wolds Runners take part in the City of Hull AC annual Humber Bridge 10km. The warm temperatures proved to be too much for some runners taking part in the event but...
View ArticleJust paw-fect family fun
From waggiest tail to most handsome dog to prettiest bitch, canines competed to be top dog in a wide range of categories at Sledmere Dog Show.Held in the gardens of Sledmere House, visitors to the show...
View ArticleGale ready for massive Roses clash
Yorkshire Vikings skipper Andrew Gale is looking for his team to kick-start their NatWest T20 campaign with a win in this evening’s Roses clash at Old Trafford against Lancashire Lightning, 5.30pm...
View ArticleGale keen to build on Roses win
Yorkshire skipper Andrew Gale is eager to build on Friday’s dramatic T20 Roses win at Old Trafford with more success in the LV County Championship first division home game with Nottinghamshire, which...
View ArticleFirst World War commemorative exhibition
The Beverley Community Museum is taking part in the East Riding’s First World War centenary commemorations with an exhibition that looks at the impact of the war in Beverley. The new exhibition,...
View ArticleBook review: The White Russian by Vanora Bennett
When White Russian anti-Communist forces were driven out by the Bolsheviks after the 1917 revolution, nearly 200,000 of them fled to Paris where they took up an uneasy residence.Twenty years later, the...
View ArticleBook review: Football, magic and mishap with Oxford University Press
What perfect timing for a nation consumed by the excitement of the World Cup Finals… the terrific tale of a team of madcap, misfit footballers.Oxford University Press, which prides itself on producing...
View ArticlePodium finish is icing on cake for Cowton’s first TT festival
Road racer James Cowton has returned home to East Yorkshire after being away for a few weeks while racing in Ireland at the North West 200 Road Races and the world-famous Isle of Man TT festival.With...
View ArticleBook review: Sisters of Treason by Elizabeth Fremantle
When the deposed nine-day English queen Lady Jane Grey was executed at the Tower of London in 1554, she left behind two younger sisters to face a lifetime under the shadow of treason. For years,...
View ArticleWoldsway’s Katherine Felgate set for Miss Galaxy Universe
Woldsway to Health’s Katherine Felgate is to take on the Miss Galaxy Universe this weekend after seeing the competition in a magazine last year.It’s a fitness and beauty pageant for real women, mums,...
View ArticleRacing’s bandwagon rolls on from vibrant Epsom to breathtaking Royal Ascot.
At this time of year, racing’s bandwagon stops for no punter as it rolls on from one summer festival to the next.No sooner has the last bead of Epsom sweat dropped from the necks of Classic winners...
View ArticleBeverley author pens new production
A moving new play full of comedy and dark humour comes to Union Mash Up on Prince’s Avenue, Hull, next week. Aunty’s Waxworks, which runs from Weds 25 to Sat 28 June, is by local playwright Joanna...
View ArticleMatthew Grove launches £1.5m Crime Reduction Fund
Humberside Police and Crime Commissioner Matthew Grove has announced the launch of his ‘Commissioner’s Crime Reduction Fund’ which looks to provide community projects over the next four years from...
View ArticleRoyal Ascot: One of racing’s top traditions
We should be bang in the middle of Royal Ascot, as you read this. It’s amazing to think, that the meeting was held on the Knavesmire in 2005, while the Berkshire course underwent a £200million...
View ArticleMusic promoter with with more than 100 gigs under his belt
Martyn Rudd is a Driffield-based concert promoter who has helped stage more than one-hundred events over the past five years. Utilising venues in York, Hull, and Cherry Burton, he has orchestrated...
View ArticleCouncil cost cuts bid proposed
The cabinets of both East Riding of Yorkshire Council and Scarborough Borough Council will consider proposals to share a number of services, saving money and sharing costs for both authorities.From 1...
View ArticleTwenty horses to follow from a vintage Royal Ascot
Believe what you read elsewhere, and you might be sucked into thinking Royal Ascot 2014 was all about how many people watched it on Channel 4.Turn instead to any one of the 286,000 people who flocked...
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There will be an evening of song and banter with the best of Yorkshire at the Beverley Folk Club next month.On Friday 15 August, top folk singers Holly Taymar and Chris Bilton will perform at the...
View ArticleHull construction firm to build new Beverley campus
East Riding College is delighted to announce the appointment of Hull construction firm Houlton as the main contractor for its £14m new Beverley campus.The four-storey building will form part of the...
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