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Coming Up - Saturday 24th May 08 - Bransholme Enterprises Open Day
	Bransholme Enterprises open day will host a range of activities including, plant sales, raffle, tombola, gardening advice, refreshments and children's activities. 11am - 4pm at Allotments, Noddle Hill Way, Bransholme (opp. Kinloss Garth). For more information ring (01482) 821467. www.bransholme-enterprises.co.uk Read more Coming Up ...

Music News - Electric Angel - The Last People On Earth's CD Launch
	Tea House Records are proud to present their first release Electric Angel by psych-prog-party band The Last People On Earth. Having been the north's best kept secret for the last five years, this is their first album to gain a full national release (their first 2 long players were gig only affairs). The album was recorded in a string of late night sessions Read more...

News, - Propeller and the RTS Student Awards
	Propeller TV, the broadcaster that was established in 2006 to support new filmmaking talent, has teamed up with the Royal Television Student Masterclasses & Awards. The cool-hunting Propeller TV is set on sweeping up the latest new talent at the RTS Awards being held in London on 16th May 2008. Student filmmakers, producers and directors Read more...

Coming Up, Community - Friday 23rd May 08 - Gig in the Village at Ferriby Village Hall
	Following the very successful Ferriby Christmas Party, which provided a great deal of excitement and involvement within the village, another charity event has been organised to raise money for disadvantaged youths in the region. The event is being supported by some of the area's top talent: TripManhattan - Powerful and intelligent Read more...

News, Environment - Protect Communities and Rainforests in Colombia - A message from Reinhard Behrend chairman of Rettet den Regenwald (Save the Rainforest)
	Please take part in an urgent email action, to protect communities and rainforests in Colombia from agrofuel expansion. The Colombian government continues to promote the expansion of vast oil palm plantations, including in Chocó. This is one of the world's most biodiverse regions, with large areas of rainforest now facing destruction. Read more...

Coming Up, - Fiday 16th May 08 - Moonbeams at The Old Town Hall, Driffield
	The last night of its kind until Autumn, May's Moonbeams - organised as always by Leila Slater - follows hot on the heels of other Moonbeams evenings that have featured the high-profile likes of former Seahorses frontman Chris Helme, The Hall Brothers, Duncan McFarlane, and Hayley Hutchinson. Scheduled to boast the wonderful talents of five acts, Read more...

Fiction - 100 Words Competition - A Depressive and a Botched Suicide By Laura Fry

	And once again boats sail down the Danube, but you; don't worry about me any more, I'm like leaves, the wind blows me away, wolves die alone... The mourners read the translation of the deceased's beloved Croatian song. The male voice booms from the CD through Hull Crematorium, bringing additional shivers to the late autumn Yorkshire morning. The European flag Read more...

News, - The Network Summer Event
	Do you love TV? Want to know more about what it takes to get a job in television? If so, The Network FREE summer event is for you. You will take part in exclusive master classes and workshops, gain invaluable careers advice and network with the biggest and best people from the television industry. Past speakers have ranged from celebrities such as Vernon Kay. Read more...

Articles - The Future of Sex By Christopher Skolik

	We live in a landscape of strange potential. Where attitudes and psychological states can be adopted and discarded, where mental disorders have become fashion accessories, where homosexuality and 'gay' have become separated to such an extent that to be homosexual and not subscribe to the 'gay' myth is a form of heresy. The human body is not equipped to deal with the Read more...

Poetry - 30 Seconds Later By Mike Watts
	I met fear today A ball-shrinking ordeal Of dark confrontation Blocking my way: A street predator Six foot of cold blood, An unmuzzled Dog-faced bastard Read more...

News, Environment - Leeds University gives in to GMO Genetically Modified Organisms or God Move Over for PROFIT. By Mo.
	On the 10th May The Yorkshire Post reported Leeds University given go-ahead for open field trial of GM potato crop. The potatoes have had their genes tweaked by Professor Howard Atkinson to give them resistance to a parasite. The move was announced yesterday by the Department of Environment, Farming and Rural Affairs (Defra), headed by Leeds MP Hilary Benn. Read more...

Poetry - The Great Big Back and Forth By Joe Hakim

We remain unsolved like a su-doku on the back of a paper on a table in a café, that someone started but neglected to finish, and now    Read more...

Music News - Tuesday 20th May 08 - Black and White Tango To Support Acclaimed Smiths Bassist Andy Rourke At Faversham in Leeds
	Alt. Indie classicists Black and White Tango invite you to join them on 20th May at Faversham in Leeds. We're playing with The Troubadours (Q Magazine top 10 bands 2008) & Andy Rourke (The Smiths). The Guardian and NME are going to be there so it would be cool if as many people as possible could come with us. Press "Black and White Tango outside the box Read more...

Fiction - 100 Words Competition - Fun and Games By Shep

	It was easier than he thought. Several swings of the bat and his problem had disappeared like the last drag of his cigarette. He looked at the windows adjacent to where he stood; half expecting to see the neighbours looking on with horror and disgust, but there was not a face in sight. He smiled to himself and walked down the garden path back to his front door. Read more...

Music News - Hull Pride Looking For Bands
	Hull Pride is putting its stage line-up together, and want bands to come forward to play. With turnout expected at 10,000 its going to be a huge open air event on Saturday 9th August, not clashing with anything else in the city that day. West Park is one of the largest open air venues in the city, and we have it for one day! Read more...

People - An Interview with Leila Slater (Mastermind behind Moonbeams Acoustic Nights in Driffield By Steve Rudd
	Fed up with having to travel out of town to indulge in her passion for live music, Leila Slater boldly took it upon herself to start organizing and promoting her own nights of live music in Driffield. Taking the form of intimate Acoustic nights, her Moonbeams events have so far attracted a whole host of marvelous musicians and singers from near and far. Read more...

Reviews, Books - Here, Bullet by Brian Turner Reviewed by Michelle Dee
	Here, Bullet is as startling as it is direct. The anthology of poems written by the multi award-winning U.S. war veteran Brian Turner uncovers the landscape of the war in Iraq with unswerving honesty and importantly he writes from a non-political viewpoint. Brian Turner saw active service for seven years which included leading an Infantry Team in Iraq with the 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division in November 2003. Read more...

Poetry - Scribble By Heather Cairns

These days it is not enough to cross or strike the wrong number away No. The pen must dig and scratch like the    Read more...

Poetry - The Coward By Laurenceaux

The coward couldn't tell the truth the coward could only lie. The coward deceived and tricked, the coward    Read more...

Poetry - Sell-Up or Sell-Out? By Andrew Wastling .

	Gonna sell my TV My CDs And my fridge. Gonna move into a tepee With the hippies Livin' High Up on the ridge. Read more...

Fiction - 100 Words Competition - Conversation In A Small Room By Manuro

	'I went to the shops And bought a new toffee Hammer. The old one got Damaged during the 'incident' With those burglars. You remember, waking up with Some Burberry-capped thug in Read more...

Fiction - Beyond An Accidental Shoreline By Christopher Skolik
	Dennison had covered some disturbing assignments in his time; Neo-psychopathology and its preoccupations concerning future psychological abnormality. Contagious mental illness and media psychosis, the way suicide or spree killing spread thru lines of communication. Mutant-criminology and the adaptation of deviancy in our strange new psychological landscape. Read more...

Music News - Beverley Young Musician Wins Prestigious Prize
	A Beverley teenager has won the first ever Beverley & East Riding Early Music Festival's Young Composers' Competition and will have his piece performed by the acclaimed vocal ensemble, The Tallis Scholars, in Beverley Minster (23 May, 7.30pm) as part of this year's Festival which is co-ordinated by the National Centre for Early Music. Keryn Tatman, 17, from Beverley Grammar School, Read more...

Poetry - I Want To Get A Celebrity Pregnant By Joe Hakim

Make my move when they're looking dog rough, my own life is just too tough, I'm just not earning enough so I need to get a celebrity up the duff. I want to get a celebrity pregnant. I need a passport to another life,    Read more...

Sports, News - Krav Maga FREE Trial Class for MAY Only

	Learn how to defend yourself like Jason Bourne and The Bionic Woman. Amazed by Jason's fighting prowess? Come and try Krav Maga for yourself I will be teaching you how to escape from many different holds and locks, i.e side head locks, bear hugs and a variety of chokes and many more. Learn how to defend your self against attacks and how to fight back. Read more...

News, - Russell Howard Returns for Festival
	Organisers of Hull Comedy Festival have announced that Russell Howard will be returning to open this year's festival with a show at Hull City Hall in October. Russell Howard will be bringing his new show, Dingledodies to Hull City Hall on Thursday 23rd October to kick-start Hull's second comedy festival. Russell joins a list of headliners Read more...

Fiction - 100 Words Competition - Pain in Vain no Gain By Joan Moffat.

	Sweat trickled down my face, droplets formed on my nose. Sharp pains tore at my back muscles. Leaning over, as I struggled, constricted my breathing and squeezed my stomach into cramp. Red flashes floated before my eyes. I was about to faint. I began to weep. Why had I got myself into such a stupid situation? I was the victim of my own vanity. I struggled more. Read more...

News, Arts - Wherefore art thou budding film-makers? The Royal Opera House runs competition to create 40 second Romeo and Juliet
	Could you create your own Romeo and Juliet in 40 seconds? The Royal Opera House and BP are looking for budding film-makers of all ages and experience to produce their own 40 second version of Romeo and Juliet. A judging panel from the Royal Opera House and BP will choose a selection of the best films to be showcased on the Read more...

Poetry - Job Satisfaction By Laurenceaux

Sitting in the box called work a screen flickers as if unsure of its mode and I observe discompassionatly. We talk in jumbled mnemonics and jargonese, but not a word is spoken.    Read more...

Music News - Comedy Festival Anthem Wanted!
	Do you have a wicked sense of humour and appreciation of music? Do you like the sound of being credited with writing an official festival anthem that will be celebrated at a number of events across the city on an annual basis? If so, it's time to get creative as organisers of Hull Comedy Festival are inviting musical and comedic talent to write and record an Anthem for Hull Comedy Festival. Read more...

Music News - Local Hull Band Track Features on XFM
	Stickpin's song Ghost Girl (inspired by the film Stir of Echoes, and songwriter Katherine Horrex's anger at minimalist display of vengeance) has been chosen as one of the 4 featured tracks of week on XFM where it is currently receiving airplay. Weekly featured tracks compete for a position in the XFM playlist and you can listen and vote for your favourite Read more...

Poetry - Crime Scene By Mike Watts
	I'm sinking my cold Bare flesh into the hot shock Of clear, steaming water, And as I hit the enamel A sudden burst of yellow Mushroom's out From between my legs: Read more...

Articles - Local Election Sex Shocker Special By Lee Cassanell

	Yes it's that time of year folks. The leaflets have been distributed, babies have been kissed and your local politicians have been photographed with some wheel chair bound thalidomide. Now I have nothing against people suffering from the thald, in fact I once spent a steaming evening with a short armed seductress and I found her to be both passionate and Read more...

Poetry - Message for the Lady in the Red Hat By Andrea Longstaff

	When I drink whisky my mind starts to melt I've been thinking about the hand I've been dealt Everyone lies if you look in their eyes And life doesn't begin at forty She was naked apart from the clothes that she wore Nothing makes sense to me any more Read more...

Poetry - After I was widowed By Manuro

	Parking permits make me cluck Barking hermits fake me duck Larking termites rake me muck Refer to Eric by his surname Defer to Derek, my he's urbane Prepared a Dalek not a turbine Read more...

People - An Interview with Adam Towse of Filth Wizard By Steve Rudd
	Fans of Torso Horse might have been wondering why it's been so quiet on their metallic front in recent months. Well, rest assured - they haven't split up; they've simply been taking a break. In the meantime, band ringleader Adam Towse has been busy writing material for a new project: Filth Wizard. Unleashing auto-erotic fury in a similar manner Read more...

Fiction - Faster Than the Speed of Silence By Leah Scarpati
	The phone's ringing again - the second time today. Its shrill chime echoes around the house, reverberating through the hall and into my warm little cocoon of a living room. It makes me nervous. It's like a foreign body, stealthily making its way through the house, looking for me- preparing to bump me off, to throw something at me when I least expect it. Read more...

Music Reviews - Thursday 17th April Rebel Music Presents Pog Wob Joseph Porter CrackTown with DJ Eddy And Dan Van By Michelle Dee (you'd better believe it)
	Billed as Another Class Night. The Rebel Music Presents night featured alt acoustic folk from Brighton, Pog, Wob ex Blyth Power, Joseph Porter also ex Blyth Power and Hull's own CrackTown (the love affair continues). Whether class described the classroom feel that some of Joseph Porters' delves into Greek history brought Read more...

Album Reviews - Hayley Hutchinson - Love Songs For The Enemy Reviewed by Steve Rudd
	When she's not playing in The Sorry Kisses, York's Hayley is making sweet music of her own, and this - her second album - will bring fans up to speed with the fruits of her latest spell of songwriting. A glorious ten-track affair, Love Songs For The Enemy is a sublime record in every respect, opening tune All I Have incorporating banjo and harmonica Read more...

Fiction - 100 Words Competition - A is not only for Apple By Lin Whitehouse

	Is this what it feels like to sit on death row, morbidly freefalling through the past? I keep averting my eyes from the clock face but the minute magnet holds me hostage. Had I done enough to be reprieved? Another hour swallows my resolve not to panic, in God's name how long does it take to open an envelope? Perhaps the results aren't what we predicted. Read more...

Opinions - The BBC Dipping into Youtube for Viewers By Mo UPDATED BBC's BBC Phil Hayton Denies All knowlege
	The British Broadcasting Corporation, which is usually known simply as the BBC, is the world's largest broadcasting corporation. It has 28,000 employees in the United Kingdom alone and an annual budget of more than £4 billion. Founded on 18 October 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company Ltd, it was subsequently granted a Royal Charter and Read more...

Poetry - Are You Me? By Laurenceaux

Are You Me? Raft alone at sea are you me? Do you nurture souls or are you empty. Do you offer hope or failure are you bright for all to see,    Read more...

News, Arts - Free Art by Gavin Turk
	Gavin Turk, the artist famous for using his own name in his work, has re-designed that famous old Hull icon, the Jacksons carrier bag. Hull Time Based Arts is giving away free 'Gav bags' as part of its weekend festival of live art - Time and Tidal Flow. Get yours by visiting the shows this weekend -programme details below. Read more...

Music Reviews - Wednesday 9th April 08 - The Blueskins (Last Ever Hull Show), Kal El's Cape and Kill Surf City At The Adelphi By Michelle Dee Photos By Winston Sanders (Blueskins) and Michelle Dee (others)
	After being approached by CRS Events to help promote The Blueskins visit to Hull it was with a sense of dismay that I learned that the band had taken the decision to split up the week before. They were playing their existing dates then calling it a day. It would seem that having EMI and Domino in your corner is not enough to guarantee successful tour attendances. Read more...

Poetry - Not Quite So White By Amanda Lowe

	Snow-White, her pretty name was tinged with a mocking tone of irony For men would frolic in her minge, she pulled them like a siren, she Had the kennel boy do her doggy fashion, the groom shagged in the stable And the cook she fucked with a spicy passion, on the banqueting table. Read more...

Listings - The Welly Club - What's On April and May 2008
	Check the Full Listing..Buy your tickets securely online by credit or debit card using PayPal Friday 25th April - 10.30pm to 3am - welly:two Eight:Zero presents The Sex Pistols Experience plus Complete Control The ultimate Sex Pistols tribute plus Hull's own Clash covers heroes, with Eight:Zero's Paul Dakeyne Read more...

Listings - What's On at Yo -Yo Indie Club, May 08 - Lincoln and Hull
	Check the Full Listing..Saturdays Lincoln - Yo-Yo Indie Club Night at The Quayside With DJ Andyo-yo and Aron (YAK / Cell) Doors: 10.00pm - 2.20am Entry £2 B4 11pm / £4 NUS & £5 Other Lincoln's Best Club Night: NME The most popular Indie Night in Lincoln: Lincoln Echo The Quayside Read more...

Poetry - Fanny By Mike Watts
	Fused, inside her fossil head, Battling to unravel The way she's faced, A rare Victorian, Whose busy family Just can't be arsed. Read more...

Poetry - Word Perfect By Carol Coiffait

Inside the yurt Close to the hearth Besides piles of dried dung Surrounded by family By the light of a butter lamp Grandfather is reading aloud. Grandmother is knitting    Read more...

Poetry - Beginning & End By Jazminn

	Muddle of dark feathers Worn in the ground Drip, drip The artificial rain An endless search Panic, sorrow and sleep Read more...

News, - Civil Servants Set to Join Teachers
	Over 1,000 civil servants in the PCS Union from 10 Government Departments across East Yorkshire are set to join teachers and lecturers by striking on April 24th in protest against the imposition of pay rises well below the current rate of inflation. Speaking at the Scottish TUC conference on Monday immediately after PM Gordon Brown's address, Read more...

Music Reviews - Friday 11th April - Scouting For Girls at Hull University By Gemma Durham
	Scouting for girls delivered a belting performance last Friday, it is safe to say their a 2008 success story and continue to deliver top class performances to fans. I have been lucky enough to know the band from 2005 as an original wolfcub. The band started in 2005 with lifelong friends Roy Stride, Pete Ellard, and Greg Churchouse. The success of the band is largely down to the fans, wolfcubs, and airplay by Radio One. Read more...

Fiction - Everyone Loves The Big Girl By Leah Scarpati
	The lights go back on and there are cheers, claps and wolf whistles as I take my final bow. That plank of a DJ ruined the end of my performance by cutting Shania off short instead of fading her out like I told him to. Thankfully I don't think anyone noticed. I'm sweating like a pack horse, but at least I've given it my all. Large Lady Kiss-a-grams are getting a good reputation and I reckon it's all down to me. Read more...

Poetry - Cup of Tea? By Kev Marshall

	I was walking through town the other day When a beggar stepped out in my way All right mate can ya spare 50p I just stared back saying no sorry But all I want is a cup of tea? As I walked off it dawned on me You see he was a good lad at our school Read more...

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News, - Green Party Calls Time on Hull CLAC
	Threat to independent advisors: Hull CAB and HIHAC. The Green Party does not welcome moves by Hull City Council to hand over advice provision in the city to Action for Employment, known as A4E. Under pressure from the national Legal Services Commission (LSC), Hull City councillors set up a bidding process to create a Community Legal Advice Centre (CLAC). Read more...

News, - Thursday 17th April 08 - Hull Says Hands Off Our CAB By Michelle Dee
	Save Hull CAB! People Not Profit! Hull Says C.L.A.C. Off! Citizens Advice Bureau - the charity for your community. Today in Hull there was a protest march to save Hull Citizens Advice Bureau from being closed and a profit making council based organisation put in its place. Hundreds of people turned out to support the staff volunteers and users of the free independent service. Read more...

Music News - Beverley Young Composers' Competition: Finalists Announced
	The Beverley & East Riding Early Music Festival has short-listed six young musicians from Beverley, Hull and York to take part in its Young Composers' Competition on Tuesday 22nd April. Delma Tomlin, Director of the Festival said 'we are absolutely delighted to announce that the following young composers have Read more...