It's finally here! Whether you’ll be indulging in a bit of flag-waving this long weekend or shutting your curtains to it all (and that’s absolutely fair enough), I do hope you have a good one. I’m just hoping to use the time to chill out and maybe do a bit of...
I’M BACK! Did you miss me? On second thoughts, don’t answer that… I enjoyed my “holiday” last week, which really was a staycation in the proper sense of the word, and it was the closest thing to time off I’ve had in some time. As I’ve said before, I haven’t been out...
I’ve been shunted to page 4 this week, so I’ve not got much space (hooray, I hear you cry!), so I’ll just draw your attention to a couple of things worth mentioning. In the middle of your paper, with any luck, you’ll find our 2022 Holiday Guide, which is packed with...
At last, I’m back in the office. While sitting on the settee with a laptop and a cat is quite nice, it really does make things a bit easier actually being face to face with colleagues, and consequently the paper went off yesterday in good time without the printers...
WELL, it got me in the end. As I write this, I’m on my settee at home, battling to get everything done in time for the deadline, having tested positive for Covid-19 on Monday morning. It seems as though the virus is finally picking off those of us who had managed to...
I know I said it last week, but the response from our readers to the Ukraine crisis never fails to be amaze and humble. I wasn’t sure what response I’d get after putting it out in the paper and on social media that we’d be happy to take donations at our Withernsea...
I’m short on space this week, so I’ll leave you with a few brief thoughts on the local response to the Ukraine crisis. I have conflicting emotions, like many others, I’m sure, because the humanitarian disaster and unspeakable brutality of what’s going on in Ukraine is...
The Gazette tends to be seen as a hyperlocal paper full of stories about tabletop sales and town council meetings – and that’s what it is, in the main. It might not be the most earth-shattering of news, but these things matter to people; they’re the events that make...
At about 4pm on Friday, February 18, the phone rang. Like thousands of people around the country, I’d been watching the overnight phenomenon that was Big Jet TV on YouTube, both amused and obsessed by aviation enthusiast Jerry Dyer’s commentary as hugely skilled...
This week’s column is brought to you by hot toddies and paracetamol. For the first time in what seems like ages, I’ve felt really under the weather this past few days, so I apologise in advance if anything in this paper is more skewwhiff than it usually is… It wasn’t...
by John Prince The clock is ticking for customers at a jeweller’s shop in Hornsea, which has launched a competition to raise money to help support a nursery that was vandalised earlier this year. An outdoor play area and a shed were damaged at Hornsea Nursery School...
A Withernsea businessman has been appointed to lead the board overseeing a £19.6 million regeneration programme, as its boundary expands to include the whole town and Rimswell parish. Howard Gant, who also chairs Withernsea AFC, has taken over from interim chairman...
A man has been jailed for 39 weeks and banned from three Withernsea shops for five years after admitting 23 shop thefts. Alfie Caller, 21, of no fixed address but formerly of Kirkfield Road, Withernsea, pleaded guilty to the offences at Hull Magistrates’ Court on...
by Gazette Reporter Households are set to receive a £100 winter energy payment, motorists will benefit from an extended fuel duty freeze and thousands more small businesses will escape business rates under a Budget aimed at easing the cost of living. Chancellor John...
by John Prince A firm warning has been given to motorists driving over a crumbling bridge which has been closed near Skirlaugh, because traffic cones and road signs are being moved so they can get across it. Parts of the walls at Lambwath Bridge on Swine...
by John Prince The future of the former council offices in Skirlaugh remains uncertain after the For Sale sign disappeared from outside the building. The sprawling complex on Main Road, which includes a Grade II-listed former workhouse and a Cold War nuclear bunker,...
