Withernsea RNLI volunteers will feature in the latest episode of the documentary series Saving Lives at Sea. The episode, to be broadcast on BBC Two at 8pm on Tuesday, September, 15, follows the crew responding to reports of a person stranded at the base of a cliff...
Blue Light Weekend has been named among the finalists for a major tourism award after a record-breaking number of entries from across Hull and East Yorkshire. The annual Withernsea event is in the running for Remarkable Tourism Event of the Year at the 2026 Remarkable...
by Sam Hawcroft Work under way at Aldi in Withernsea is for equipment connected with a new national scheme allowing shoppers to return empty drinks containers and reclaim a deposit, the supermarket has confirmed. Cllr Jon Dimberline raised curiosity on social media...
by John Prince If you ever go along Main Street in Roos, you might be wondering why a huge metal robot is standing guard outside one of the village’s hostelries. Dominating the frontage of the Roos Arms is an 8ft scale model of a Transformer from the Hollywood film of...
By Sam Hawcroft Former pupils of Withernsea dance teacher Irene Lawson BEM are being asked to share their memories as part of the project marking her life with a blue plaque. A questionnaire has been launched by the Withernsea Riff Raff Heritage Project to build up a...
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...
SPONSORED FEATURE Four members of the Gazette team are preparing to walk barefoot across hot coals to help fund potentially lifesaving equipment for Withernsea’s seafront. Sam, Zoe, John and Sally have signed up for mayor Cllr Kristina Richardson’s firewalk on Friday,...
EXCLUSIVE by John Prince It was a day to remember for a charity fundraiser who got a huge surprise last weekend, as a convoy of 15 tractors rolled into town to give him a big thank you for his hard work. For the past decade, 89-year-old Paul Harper from...
Questions over why dozens of Hedon streets have been given 20mph limits prompted a debate at the town council’s latest public participation session. Councillors defended the scheme’s aim of reducing speed across the town, but acknowledged concerns about Acklam Road...
