On the evening of 18th March 2021 it will be the 80th years since cinema goers had an amazing escape at the National Picture Theatre […]
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Writer commissioned as part of Queen’s Gardens refurbishment project
A writer has been commissioned to produce work that will displayed as part of the Queens Gardens refurbishment. Author and artist Joanna Walsh has been […]
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Have your say on the future of the city’s historic Old Town
The public are being invited to share their views on the future of Hull’s Old Town. The historic area, home to Hull Minster, Trinity Square, […]
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Temporary goodbye to some of Hull’s fine collection of maritime paintings
A number of Hull’s historic maritime paintings from the Hull Maritime Museum, with some dating back to the 1700s, have been sent to a specialist […]
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Phil’s Forty, 40: The year that got away
So there we are, 40 essays all done but of course it wasn’t supposed to be like this. When the Editor and I sat down […]
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Phil’s Forty, 39: Lessons from the old school
It was maybe five or six years ago that I sat in a client meeting and heard another journalist, aged thirty-something, describe himself as “old […]
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Phil’s Forty, 38: A spellbinding story
My favourite from all the stories across more than 40 years was one of the first I ever wrote. It was first published in the […]
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Phil’s Forty, 37: The Sooty Show, media cliques and the sex scandal that got away
It’s a strange thing, journalism. And the same goes for many of the people who do it. For every journalist who gets to the very […]
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Phil’s Forty, 36: “We’re all in the World Cup”
The sun blazed down, the bands punched out a pulsating musical backdrop and the aromas wafting across from the adjacent field lured spectators to an […]
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Phil’s Forty, 35: Private practice
It started as a conversation about a commercial property firm agreeing a one-year lease with a business in Hull which needed a big industrial shed. […]
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