• New Georgian Quarter boosts Beverley heartland

  By TheMarketX

  I live in the 'Georgian Quarter' in a Victorian house..but that's by the by...Apart from a carriage...

            

   

  By Hull Daily Mail at 07:01 on 17/06/13

  

  TRADERS hope rebranding two Beverley shopping streets will bring thousands of extra visitors to the town. Businesses in North Bar Within and North Bar Without have joined forces to create the Georgian Quarter in a bid to boost trade in the town. It was launched with a day of events on Saturday, including fashion shows, street entertainment, guided tours and a ghost walk. David Bird, chairman of the North Bar Traders' Association,...

• 'The spirit of the park has gone and will never be the same again'

  By Planetnormal

  Think about it. This is basically a new little village created in the countryside without...

            

   

  By Hull Daily Mail at 08:15 on 15/06/13

  

  THEY had reached a certain time in life and moved to a rural idyll for peace and quiet. Now, residents of a park homes site are deeply divided by a planning row and allegations their homes were fraudulently sold as being for full-time residential use. Some have been represented at a planning inquiry to decide whether East Riding Council should give them full planning permission to continue living in holiday homes at Lakeminster Park...

• 10,000 reasons not to cut NHS

  By Col18

  Not cut the NHS? Save it? From what? It has a £112 BILLION budget, thats more than most...

            

   

  By Hull Daily Mail at 08:45 on 15/06/13

  

  A 10,000-name petition calling on politicians to help rescue the NHS from crisis has been handed over. Members of Save Our NHS Hull and East Yorkshire have been collecting the signatures since July last year and yesterday handed them to MP Karl Turner. The group have been fighting the local cuts, so started the petition which calls for "a full rebate of £99m to protect and maintain local NHS services". Group members...

• Angus Young: Time for a fitting tribute to Spiders from Mars

  By paul_cyclops

  I'm with Angus. Ronno was one of the finest musicians/arrangers/producers of his generation and,...

            

   

  By Hull Daily Mail at 15:00 on 14/06/13

  

  Walking through Queens Gardens the other day I went past the outdoor stage constructed as a memorial to the late Hull-born guitarist Mick Ronson. It was late Monday morning and the only thing actually on it was an empty table and chairs from the neighbouring park café. Actually, it's not much of a stage, just a raised concrete circle edged with red bricks. Blink and you would probably miss it. I seem to recall it also has a...

• Lakeminster Park full-time living is 'flagrant breach' of rules

  By ickyplush

  They say that the best place in the world to live is Britain...providing you are not British. Just...

            

   

  By Hull Daily Mail at 17:15 on 06/06/13

  

  A PLANNING Inspector has been told giving residents permission to stay full-time on a park homes site near Beverley will encourage planning breaches elsewhere. East Riding Council is facing an appeal against its refusal to grant full residential planning permission for people at Lakeminster Park in Woodmansey. More than 130 people are living there full-time, even though the park licence says they must have another permanent...

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