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The Holderness & Hornsea Gazette @holdernessnews.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
The latest edition is out now! Holderness: pocketmags.com/the-holderne... Hornsea: pocketmags.com/the-holderne...
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The Holderness & Hornsea Gazette @holdernessnews.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
A businesswoman who helped raise more than £20,000 for Withernsea RNLI says she is “absolutely gutted” after thieves stole a collection box and a number of unclaimed raffle prizes in the early hours of this morning. 📸 Teresa Mansell Read more: holderness-gazette.co.uk/thieves-stea...
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The Holderness & Hornsea Gazette @holdernessnews.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Following a complex 16-month investigation into the care of the deceased at Hull’s Legacy Independent Funeral Directors, Robert Bush has pleaded guilty to the remaining 31 charges he faced, taking the total number of offences admitted to 67. Read more: holderness-gazette.co.uk/legacy-funer...
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The Holderness & Hornsea Gazette @holdernessnews.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
The community in Welwick have celebrated the opening of a new village shop next to the Plotters' Bar – selling everything from grocery essentials to crafts and antiques... and the Gazette! Find out more in the next edition - out on Thursday. 📸 Sam Hawcroft
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The Holderness & Hornsea Gazette @holdernessnews.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Happy Mother’s Day to all the amazing mums out there. Whether you’re celebrating your mum, remembering her, or thanking one of the many wonderful mother figures in your life – today’s the day to show a little love. ❤️ Hope everyone has a lovely day. 💐 #mothersday #motheringsunday
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The Holderness & Hornsea Gazette @holdernessnews.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Plans are under way in #Withernsea to create a lasting memorial and roll of honour following the tragedy on the town's seafront on January 2. Read more: holderness-gazette.co.uk/chu... 📷 Darrin Stevens / Sam Hawcroft #holderness #eastriding
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The Holderness & Hornsea Gazette @holdernessnews.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
The largest beach fishing competition in Europe – the Paul Roggeman European Open Beach Championship – is coming to Holderness this coming weekend. Pictured is last year's winner, Scott Poultney. More here: holderness-gazette.co.uk/eur...
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The Holderness & Hornsea Gazette @holdernessnews.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Happy International Women's Day from all the team at the Gazette office! Zoe, Sam, Rebecca, Sal and Angela 💚 This year's #IWD2026 theme is Give to Gain. Find out more: www.internationalwomensday.com/
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The Holderness & Hornsea Gazette @holdernessnews.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
A surprising Withernsea link has emerged in the UK’s entry for this year’s @eurovision.tv – with a mug from the lighthouse making a cameo appearance in the official music video. Read more: holderness-gazette.co.uk/wit... 🎥 Watch the video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=niMK...
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The Holderness & Hornsea Gazette @holdernessnews.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
The latest edition is out now! Holderness: pocketmags.com/the-holdernes... Hornsea: pocketmags.com/the-holdernes...
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The Holderness & Hornsea Gazette @holdernessnews.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
A Patrington couple have been left stranded in Abu Dhabi after flights were abruptly suspended amid escalating military tensions across the Middle East. Read more: holderness-gazette.co.uk/cou...
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The Holderness & Hornsea Gazette @holdernessnews.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Mid-Holderness councillor Samantha Christon-Whyte has defected from the Conservative Party to Reform UK. Read more: holderness-gazette.co.uk/cou...
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The Holderness & Hornsea Gazette @holdernessnews.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The latest edition is out now! Holderness: pocketmags.com/the-holdernes... Hornsea: pocketmags.com/the-holdernes...
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The Holderness & Hornsea Gazette @holdernessnews.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
St Patrick’s Church in Patrington has launched a £100,000 campaign to restore its historic church bells. 📸 Rebecca Hannant Read more: holderness-gazette.co.uk/chu...
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The Holderness & Hornsea Gazette @holdernessnews.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
🏆 @hullkr.bsky.social survived a late Brisbane Broncos comeback to be crowned World Club Challenge winners after a dramatic 30–24 victory at the MKM Stadium. More here: holderness-gazette.co.uk/rov...
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Rovers survive late Broncos comeback to be crowned World Club Challenge winners - The Holderness and Hornsea Gazette
Hull KR survived a late Brisbane Broncos comeback to be crowned World Club Challenge winners after a dramatic 30–24 victory at the MKM Stadium. After a packed pre-match build-up and the national anthems, Hull KR kicked off in front of a full house and immediately set the tone. An early high ball was spilled by
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The Holderness & Hornsea Gazette @holdernessnews.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
The latest edition is out now. Holderness and East Riding edition: pocketmags.com/the-holdernes... Hornsea edition: pocketmags.com/the-holdernes...
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The Holderness & Hornsea Gazette @holdernessnews.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
The latest edition is out now. Subscribe online: pocketmags.com/the-holdernes...
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The Holderness & Hornsea Gazette @holdernessnews.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Hundreds of mourners gathered on Friday to say a final farewell to Sarah Keeling and her daughter Grace, as their joint funeral service took place following the tragic events off the coast at Withernsea last year. Read more: holderness-gazette.co.uk/hun...
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Hundreds line streets to bid final farewell to Grace and Sarah Keeling - The Holderness and Hornsea Gazette
Hundreds of mourners gathered on Friday to say a final farewell to Sarah Keeling and her daughter Grace, as their joint funeral service took place following the tragic events off the coast at Withernsea last month. The funeral cortege was met by crowds lining the route, including pupils and staff from Grace’s school, Quarrydale Academy,
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The Holderness & Hornsea Gazette @holdernessnews.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
📰 The new edition is out now! Holderness: pocketmags.com/the-holdernes... – Withernsea's clean-up organisation, TownSmart, launches new 'Poo Patrol' to tackle dog fouling Hornsea: pocketmags.com/the-holdernes... – Andy’s Man Club plans new Hornsea group And much more!
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The Holderness & Hornsea Gazette @holdernessnews.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
A major conservation project protecting one of the UK’s most successful little tern colonies near Spurn has secured £94,000 in funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund. Read more: holderness-gazette.co.uk/940...
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The Holderness & Hornsea Gazette @holdernessnews.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Motorists using the new Humber Bridge tolls system will still be able to pay online from today – Monday, February 2 – but the launch of the new payment app has been delayed because of technical issues. More here: holderness-gazette.co.uk/tec...
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Tech issues delay launch of new Humber Bridge payment app - The Holderness and Hornsea Gazette
Motorists using the new Humber Bridge tolls system will still be able to pay online from today - Monday, February 2 - but the launch of the new payment app has been delayed because of technical issues. Bridge bosses confirmed that while the new Humber Bridge Toll had gone live as planned, the accompanying app
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The Holderness & Hornsea Gazette @holdernessnews.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
All parish councillors in Long Riston have resigned amid growing concern over the future of the village hall following months of dispute over its management and funding. Read more: holderness-gazette.co.uk/fea...
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The Holderness & Hornsea Gazette @holdernessnews.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
The deadline for motorists to pay their Humber Bridge toll will change when the new tolling system launches next week. Read more: holderness-gazette.co.uk/don...
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The Holderness & Hornsea Gazette @holdernessnews.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
An old nuclear monitoring post perched on the edge of the eroding cliffs near Tunstall has finally fallen down, following days of national attention focused on its precarious position. More here: holderness-gazette.co.uk/goi...
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Going, going… gone! Cold War era building near Tunstall finally falls - The Holderness and Hornsea Gazette
An old nuclear monitoring post perched on the edge of the eroding cliffs near Tunstall has finally fallen down, following days of national attention focused on its precarious position. The former Cold War-era structure fell at some point overnight on Thursday, January 22, into Friday, January 23, after gradually leaning further and further out from
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The Holderness & Hornsea Gazette @holdernessnews.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
And... it's gone! 📷 John Prince #Tunstall #holderness #bunker #ColdWar #nuclear
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The Holderness & Hornsea Gazette @holdernessnews.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
📸 With the kind permission of local photographer John Biggs, these images taken late afternoon today (Thurs Jan 22) show just how far the Tunstall Cold War-era building is leaning out from the cliff now. How long will it hang on?
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The Holderness & Hornsea Gazette @holdernessnews.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
📢 The latest edition is out now. Holderness: pocketmags.com/the-holdernes... Hornsea: pocketmags.com/the-holdernes...
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The Holderness & Hornsea Gazette @holdernessnews.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
A body has been found among the rocks on the beach to the south of Withernsea during the ongoing search for teenager Grace Keeling, police have confirmed. Emergency services and HM Coastguard have been in the area of Holmpton Road since the discovery was made yesterday morning (Thurs, January 15).
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The Holderness & Hornsea Gazette @holdernessnews.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
📍Just a reminder that we are now at 170 Queen Street in Withernsea - our signage should be going up around the end of the week. We’re selling the RNLI Withernsea raffle tickets - please do pop in!
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The Holderness & Hornsea Gazette @holdernessnews.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Brown bin collections across the East Riding are set to move to a weekly service, with the change being introduced in stages from next month. Read more: holderness-gazette.co.uk/bro...
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The Holderness & Hornsea Gazette @holdernessnews.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
We’re in the process of getting reconnected at 170 Queen Street in Withernsea - so please bear with us! But you’re more than welcome to pop in and buy raffle tickets for the big RNLI fundraiser 💚
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The Holderness & Hornsea Gazette @holdernessnews.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
‼️ PLEASE NOTE: Our office in Hubert Street is CLOSED today as we are in the process of moving to 170 Queen Street. We should be open tomorrow but please bear with us as we settle in!
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The Holderness & Hornsea Gazette @holdernessnews.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
📰 In the edition out now, read the first part of our look back on 2025! The second part will be in the next edition, out on New Year's Day. 🛒 pocketmags.com/the-holdernes...
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The Holderness & Hornsea Gazette @holdernessnews.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
📰 In the edition out now: Christmas TV listings, The Year That Was part 1, a festive short story, history feature with Hedon History Walks, news, sport, opinion and much more! 🛒 Available in print and online via holderness-gazette.co.uk
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The Holderness & Hornsea Gazette @holdernessnews.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
🎄 The Gazette office is now closed for Christmas! Our current edition is on the shelves now and available online – and our next edition is out on New Year's Day (but you can always pick it up the next day if you're a bit worse for wear... 😉) We will be back open on Dec 29-31 and on Friday 2nd.
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The Holderness & Hornsea Gazette @holdernessnews.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
💚 The Gazette tree is up at St Nicholas Church in Withernsea! Thanks to Rebecca for doing the honours today as well as making some of the newspaper-themed decorations. And Zoe did the 'crackers'... recycling in action! ♻️ The Christmas tree festival is on Dec 13-14 and again on Dec 20, so do pop in!
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The Holderness & Hornsea Gazette @holdernessnews.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
A clean-up operation is under way after parts of our region were flooded following heavy rainfall at the weekend. In Leven, sandbags are being used to keep water away from houses in The Orchard. There has also been flooding in Hornsea and Atwick. 📸 John Prince #holderness #flooding #leven
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The Holderness & Hornsea Gazette @holdernessnews.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Starting tomorrow! £5 for any hot drink with a mince pie or Christmas cake at Castle Cafe in Withernsea ☕️🥧
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The Holderness & Hornsea Gazette @holdernessnews.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
💰 In this week's edition out now - on sale until next Wednesday, we have a series of money-off coupons for stalls and businesses participating in Withernsea's Dickensian Christmas on Sat, Dec 6. Pick up a copy today and grab a bargain at the event!
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The Holderness & Hornsea Gazette @holdernessnews.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
TONIGHT: Hornsea residents have a chance to see details of the new Shearwater View development off Cliff Road until 7pm tonight (Thursday 27th) at the Hornsea Hub.
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The Holderness & Hornsea Gazette @holdernessnews.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Saltend Chemicals Park is giving advance notice to local residents and businesses of a full site safety exercise, this afternoon: Tuesday, November 25. This is in addition to the regular weekly Wednesday alarm test. For up-to-date information, visit www.saltendchemicalspark.com/
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The Holderness & Hornsea Gazette @holdernessnews.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
🎉 It's another win for Patrington at the Humberside Police #Lifestyle awards 2025! 💚 HUGE congratulations to the Patrington Mini Medics!
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The Holderness & Hornsea Gazette @holdernessnews.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
🎄 Our 2025 Christmas Guide is now on our website! Full of menus, events, activities, information and more from lots of amazing local businesses. 📖 FREE flipbook here: holderness-gazette.co.uk/pdf... Copies also still available from our Withernsea office. #SupportLocal #SupportLocalBusinesses
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The Holderness & Hornsea Gazette @holdernessnews.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
🎅 On now at Hornsea Leisure Centre – Christmas market featuring the Hooked on Harmony choir, and guest appearances from Disney favourites. Until 3pm
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The Holderness & Hornsea Gazette @holdernessnews.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
📸 The organisers of Withernsea’s Dickensian Christmas are collecting community photos. If you have images that capture local life, events or moments from 2025, they'd love to include them on the event's big screen on Sat Dec 6. 📧 Send up to two pics to kristinarichardson@mail.com by Tues Nov 25.
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The Holderness & Hornsea Gazette @holdernessnews.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
🌲 The organisers of Withernsea's Dickensian Christmas on Saturday, December 6, have revealed more about what's going on at the event. Short version... a lot! Longer version... holderness-gazette.co.uk/pla...
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Plans for Withernsea’s Dickensian Christmas gathering pace - The Holderness and Hornsea Gazette
by Rebecca Hannant Organisers have revealed more details about next month’s Withernsea’s Dickensian Christmas event, which will be the town’s first of its kind. On Saturday, December 6, the event, organised by deputy mayor Kristina Richardson with the support of the town council, will include a Christmas market, live entertainment, family activities and immersive performances
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The Holderness & Hornsea Gazette @holdernessnews.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
East Riding Council has promised to review emergency access protocols after a 71-year-old woman lay injured on a bridleway in Burstwick for nearly three hours because crews were unable to unlock a gated entrance. Read more: holderness-gazette.co.uk/eme...
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Emergency access review promised after horse rider lies injured on trail for nearly three hours - The Holderness and Hornsea Gazette
by Sam Hawcroft East Riding Council has promised to review emergency access protocols after a 71-year-old woman lay injured on a bridleway in Burstwick for nearly three hours because crews were unable to unlock a gated entrance. The rider fell from her horse just after noon on Thursday, November 13, a few hundred yards along
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The Holderness & Hornsea Gazette @holdernessnews.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
The Government has confirmed that the role of Police and Crime Commissioners will be abolished from 2028 in a major shake-up of policing governance. Read more: holderness-gazette.co.uk/gov...
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Government to abolish Police and Crime Commissioners - The Holderness and Hornsea Gazette
The Government has confirmed that the role of Police and Crime Commissioners will be abolished from 2028 in a major shake-up of policing governance. The system, introduced in 2012 to give communities a direct say in local policing, will be replaced by oversight from directly elected mayors, their deputies or newly created Police and Crime
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The Holderness & Hornsea Gazette @holdernessnews.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
🌺 People across the region have turned out in numbers to honour the fallen on Remembrance Sunday. Here are some pictures from today's services in Withernsea, Hornsea and Hedon, with grateful thanks to photographers Darrin Stevens, Ray Duffill and John Prince. #RemembranceSunday #lestweforget
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The Holderness & Hornsea Gazette @holdernessnews.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Lest We Forget. #RemembranceSunday
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