• 15,000 learn how food goes from farm to fork

  By oldgoldone

  What a terrific idea, both by the teachers and Co-op Farms. I hope that many more schools in Hull...

            

   

  By Hull Daily Mail at 07:00 on 22/05/13

  

  AN AWARD-winning farming experience for primary school children has welcomed its 15,000th visitor. From Farm To Fork, run by The Co-operative Farm, welcomed youngsters from Broadacre Primary School for the milestone. Pupils from the Wawne Road school in Bransholme went to The Co-operative's estate at Adlington Grange, near Swinefleet, where it grows potatoes, vining peas, winter wheat, oilseed rape, winter barley and sugar beet. ...

• MP 'will resign' if EU referendum promise not fulfilled

  By Eisenhower89

  UKIP just two points behind the Tories in new poll.

            

   

  By Hull Daily Mail at 07:00 on 20/05/13

  

  East Yorkshire MP Andrew Percy has said if he is re-elected as part of a majority Conservative Government at the next election, he will resign the party's whip if the promise of a referendum is not met. The Eurosceptic Brigg and Goole MP has repeatedly voted against the Government on a number of European measures and against transferring powers to the EU. The Conservatives have said that if elected with a majority at the next...

• Amputee bride gets her happy ending

  By cazmarelda

  Wishing you both lots of luck and many happy years together filled with love xx

            

   

  By Hull Daily Mail at 07:23 on 20/05/13

  

  IT WAS the moment her family thought she would never live to experience – walking down the aisle to marry the love of her life. Glowing Debbie Grant was a vision of beauty at St John the Evangelist Church in Goole, where she finally said "I do" to Bob Bury. The inspirational bride had her wedding day postponed for almost a year after contracting a rare form of pneumonia. She lost the lower half of both her legs, her...

• Cash to save kids from 'chicken hut' classrooms

  By GCtheDJ

  Dave_Navarro - great minds think alike hm? Anyway, this lady on your profile pic. Who is she? I'm...

            

   

  By Hull Daily Mail at 08:39 on 12/05/13

  

  MULTI-million pound facelifts are lined up for some of the worst school buildings in the East Riding. Six secondaries – including Hornsea School, where pupils described mobile classrooms as "chicken huts" – are set for upgrades. It comes after a special panel of councillors reported £445m in repairs was needed to bring all of the area's schools into the 21st century. Councillor Brian Jefferies, who...

• Teachers are 'at breaking point'

  By opnr1

  You can't expect a fair hearing from a disgraced politician like Laws.

            

   

  By Hull Daily Mail at 07:05 on 17/05/13

  

  TEACHERS are at breaking point at cash-starved schools in the East Riding, the Schools Minister has been warned. Heads have spelled out the impact of cuts in a fairer funding plea sent to minister David Laws. It comes after a new national funding regime left dozens of schools worse off in the East Riding, which is the third worst-funded education authority. Heads from a cross-section of schools have contributed to a dossier drawn up...

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