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 reported in our Holderness and East Riding edition – available in our online subscription for those in the Hornsea area! – the relaunch...
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 aimed at us. When we first reported on our Facebook page that signs had been put up on North Promenade discouraging...
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. In each case, Stuart sought to intimidate his lone victims in areas they’d walked through many times. Places that...
This week we have a couple of fairly meaty stories on the front page of each edition. In our Holderness & East Riding edition, for instance, we look at the issue of car parking charges which has raised its head again after a report on the issue was submitted to...
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 it through the night last Thursday, having only snoozed at some point between 2am and 3am, but that’s generally the most boring part before most of the...
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 The paper came out on polling day itself, so anything we could have put in print would fast be out of date for the rest of the week. If you are...
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) the famous Cutty Sark in Greenwich, especially as we’ve run a feature on it this week (see page 19). And it’s really not just in the paper...
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 the weekend with the faint hope that miracles do happen, and that Hull City will somehow finish in the top six. Even if...
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, the BBC ran a story on Hornsea Carnival’s funding shortfall, with the attention-grabbing headline effectively saying “it won’t happen unless...
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, but we both believe in this little publication and we are passionate about the community it serves. Because it’s our community. We...
by John Prince There were tears, memories and hopes for the future as Skirlington Market near Skipsea held its final day of trading at the weekend, ending 40 years at its familiar home. Generations have spent their weekends browsing the stalls, hunting for bargains...
by Sam Hawcroft A Withernsea dance troupe is celebrating after winning 12 trophies and securing a return to national finals in Blackpool. Studio Victoriana took 20 dancers, aged from three to 33, to the Manchester heats of That’s Showbiz, a dance competition...
by Gazette Reporter More than 200 students at Hornsea School and Language College learned how to save a life when Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) volunteers visited as part of this year’s Restart a Heart Day. Four YAS volunteers attended the school, teaching CPR...
by Sam Hawcroft One of the frustrations of putting together a newspaper is knowing how many good photographs never make it on to the page. We travel to events across Holderness and Hornsea, taking far more pictures than we can publish. Print deadlines, advertising and...
by Tim Nuttall and John Prince A new coastal safety campaign inspired by the tragedy that claimed three lives on Withernsea’s central promenade in January has begun with a series of practical workshops for local schoolchildren. Withernsea High School became the first...
by John Prince There were tears, memories and hopes for the future as Skirlington Market near Skipsea held its final day of trading at the weekend, ending 40 years at its familiar home. Generations have spent their weekends browsing the stalls, hunting for bargains...
