The pictures in this week’s paper say it all. What an absolutely incredible couple of days in Withernsea! The town has not seen the like in years, and the organisers of the Blue Light Weekend deserve to be hugely congratulated for their sterling efforts in the past...

One of the things that makes our job working on the Gazette is the people we encounter day to day. There was one chap who gave me a bit of a fright, and then even more of a laugh, the other day. He’d come in with his little digital camera on which he had some photos...

For this week’s feature on the forthcoming Blue Light Weekend, I headed to both Withernsea Police Station and Withernsea Fire Station, where it was great to meet local representatives of both services who will be playing a part in the event. There are so many strands...

I have a bit of a phobia about being the wrong way up. I mean, that’s not entirely irrational, is it? Unlike my phobia of spiders, which I realise isn’t rational at all, and which I fully believe I “inherited” from my dad, having witnessed him from an early age...

If there is a definition of optimism, it might be coming to work in Withernsea wearing flip-flops. It didn’t take long before I realised I’d made a disastrous footwear error, for my ters were most certainly cerld, as we say in these parts. So, as you do, I headed down...

I enjoyed two local events on the same day last week – one I was part of, and the other I was happy to sit back and listen to. The latter was the return to his home town of author Adam Farrer (pictured), who was giving a talk at Withernsea Library about his book, Cold...

It's been nice to see the sun at last, hasn’t it? I’ve finally been able to get out into the garden and start clearing the weeds that went absolutely crazy in May. It seemed like I turned my back for five minutes and then everything was 6ft high. I must have taken to...

This week, we announce the winner of our Andrea Burn Short Story Prize – which used to be the Thousand Words competition, but we relaunched it this year in honour of our much- missed columnist and Seaside FM broadcaster, who died a few months ago. I’d like to thank...

I’ve been on my musical travels again. Last Sunday I headed down to east London for a performance of the 12 Silk Handkerchiefs production at Walthamstow folk club. Regular readers (hello, both of you!) will know that I’ve been involved with this for some years now,...

Allow me if you will to write a little tribute to my Nan, whom I’ve mentioned before in this column, and who left us on Monday, a few days shy of her 95th birthday. She was nothing short of a legend in our family, a one-off – once met, never forgotten. Helga was...