26 September 2025

Zone out from your phone

A couple of stories in this week’s edition remind us of the importance of both looking forward and looking back. On the one hand, as ...
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Don’t shoot the messenger

The debate over motorhomes on Withernsea’s seafront has sparked quite an extraordinary reaction on social media – and a fair bit of it has been ...
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‘We know that it’s not all men. But it is virtually all women’

by Sam Hawcroft On Monday, June 16, 28-year-old Mark Stuart was sentenced over a string of sexual offences targeting women in Hull, Hedon and Hornsea. ...
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Parking fine?

This week we have a couple of fairly meaty stories on the front page of each edition. In our Holderness & East Riding edition, for ...
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A new dawn

Well, that was a bit of a gripping night of politics (if you like that sort of thing). I am proud to say I made ...
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My election wish list

As I wrote last week, our coverage of the General Election this week is negligible owing to the way our deadlines fall. The paper came ...
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Sark tale

It’s been a busy old few days, that’s for sure! I really will try not to bang on too much about playing at (technically under) ...
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Weekend brake

Please allow me to talk about football (again), very briefly. Reason being is I am inordinately excited about making the trip down to Plymouth at ...
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Funding woes

The issue of event organisers struggling to find enough funding has been in the news a fair bit of late. Just over a week ago, ...
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A new era

Well, the cat’s out of the bag now! Zoe and I own this paper. Blimey. It’s a challenge that’s daunting and exciting in equal measure, ...
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