Obsessive Compulsive Disorder support group in East Yorkshire

In a letter in the current edition of the Holderness Gazette Christopher W. Fox from Driffield offers to set up an OCD support group in the East Riding.
OCD is short for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and is the name given to a condition in which people experience repetitive, upsetting and even frightening thoughts or behaviours.
The [...]

Wii Fitness Project for senior citizens in Withernsea

Do you think video games are just for kids? Then think again and be inspired by the recycled teenagers in PAGER (Pensioners Action Group East Riding).
Wii sports are being used to help PAGER Members keep fit in Withernsea. The Wii ENABLE PROJECT has been helping them to use the popular games console to take part [...]

The Holderness Gazette

This blog post is an unashamed ‘plug’ for the weekly Holderness Gazette which has been publishing local news since 1910.
Whilst there are free alternatives, the Gazette is unique in its total concentration on LOCAL news and sport. Towns and villages are much more connected to their own and each other’s communities because of this publication.
Local [...]

Facial reconstruction course

Perhaps a bit obscure this to the uninitiated – but just goes to prove that you can do almost any activity in Hedon!
The Holderness Country Club (the community building in the over-55s retirement complex in Drapers Lane) is hosting a course on “Facial Reconstruction”.
The Holderness Gazette reports that the course is a mixture of theory [...]

Hedon town councillors seek meeting on parking charges

The Holderness Gazette (excellent source of really local news) reports Thurs 5th March ‘09 that Hedon’s town council is seeking a meeting with the responsible East Riding Council OSC (overview and scrutiny committee) to disscuss the proposed car parking charges. The proposals if implemented will affect three of Hedon’s car parks which will become ‘pay [...]