BUDGET 2025: ‘I am asking everyone to make a contribution’
Rachel Reeves has abolished the two-child benefit cap in a Budget she says will deliver “the biggest reduction in child poverty over a parliament since records began” – but warned that “everyone” will be asked to make a contribution through higher effective tax bills....
‘I was a writer, not a fighter’: how City’s darkest days inspired follow-up memoir
by Sam Hawcroft An evening of candid stories, nostalgia and dark humour marked the launch of Special Attraction, Richard Lusmore’s second book charting Hull City’s turbulent journey through the late 1980s and 1990s. A packed audience gathered at the Stags Head Inn at...
Residents offered chance to send a ‘letter to heaven’
by John Prince A new postbox that can be used by bereaved families and friends to post private messages for their late loved ones is to be installed in Hornsea. The white and gold box, which will be called Letters to Heaven, is being put up in Memorial Gardens. The...
Plans for Withernsea’s Dickensian Christmas gathering pace
by Rebecca Hannant Organisers have revealed more details about next month’s Withernsea’s Dickensian Christmas event, which will be the town’s first of its kind. On Saturday, December 6, the event, organised by deputy mayor Kristina Richardson with the support of the...
