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News, Current Affairs - Choose Hope not Fear Shan Oakes Green Party Candidate Haltemprice and Howden
	David Davis says he wants to stop the growth of state knowledge and control over individuals. He does not want ever more government control but more freedom. We applaud the U-turn by the Tory party. Only last October Cameron and Davis were calling for the 1998 Human Rights Act to be scrapped. Now they are both opposing the 2008 Counter Terrorism Bill. Shan Oakes, Green Party candidate for the Haltemprice Read more...

Site News - New Free Classified System By Mo.
	Hello Ull surfers, a New Free Classified System is here on www.thisisUll.com. No membership is required, simply an email address and advert password allow you to post your own For Sale, Jobs, Personals, Rentals, Events Coming Up, Services, Miscellaneous, Wanted and Cars. Adverts can include 2 photos, are moderated, and expire in 20 days. Find it with the Menu Item Classified Ads top right, give it a go. Read more...

People - Michelle Dee Catches Up With Afterglow During Recording Sessions At Big Hand Studio In Hull By Michelle Dee
	It's a blistering hot Saturday I am in the upstairs room of Big Hand Studio with mixing desk monitors and stacks of equipment covered with LED lights blinking intermittently. I am here to see AfterGlow who the week previous headlined at Sesh to great effect playing possibly their best Hull gig to date. They were all right on the button raising Read more...

People - An Exclusive Interview with David Icke, Candidate in the Howden and Haltemprice By-election
	Hello David Icke. Is this election the first step in a move into politics? No. I'm just using the opportunity to draw attention to the issue of the Big Brother state, the global elite which is slowly taking over. I'm not entering politics as a career. So what will you do if you win? I'm think there's a one-hundred per cent chance that I won't win, but if by some chance I did, I would resign. How could I stand up in the houses Read more...

Coming Up, Education - May and June 08 - Short Courses
	Hull College offers a wide range of friendly and informal learning opportunities in venues across Hull and East Yorkshire. We are proud of our reputation for providing people with a positive, relaxed and supportive 'return to learning' experience - people just like you! Download the handy guide here Summer School 2008 brochure.pdf for all details of the exciting Summer School programme. A range of short courses Read more...

Poetry - Confessions of a Poet By Paul England

	This is my confession this is how I feel mother loved me last I'm just being real when brother left this life that shit killed me too I need nor want your pity Read more...

Poetry - Bookshop Millie By Mike Watts

I've forgotten my glasses So this place is pointless, But I'm hanging around Because there's this girl, 'Millie' Who works the till And we're spending her 'half day' together. Read more...

Fiction - 100 Words Competition - The Hand that Rocked the Cradle By Lin Whitehouse

	Hearing his mother's footsteps, the boy climbed out his bedroom window. They were both angry. He wanted to run away but it was a long drop and he might hurt himself. She shouted when she saw him, sitting on the tiled roof, suddenly scared and remembering a time she had climbed out of a similar window. He hugged his knees not wanting to look at her; she could not look away Read more...

News, Current Affairs - Socialist Equality Party Campaign in Haltemprice and Howden By-Election
	Chris Talbot explains why he is standing Chris Talbot, the Socialist Equality Party candidate for the by-election in the constituency of Haltemprice and Howden, held a press conference at Cottingham Civic Hall in the village of Cottingham on June 27. The by-election, which is in the East Ridings area of Yorkshire, will take place on Thursday, July 10. It was triggered by the resignation of sitting Conservative MP David Davis Read more...

Coming Up, Capoeira Workshops in Hull at the Spring Bank Community Centre
	Kingston Capoeira present a series of 5 Capoeira workshops in Hull, taught by the brilliant teacher, Mestre Valdir da Silva (of Capoeira Conviver, Santos, Brazil). Capoeira is an exciting mix of African-Brazilian movement and non-contact martial arts. Combining graceful movement and music, these fun sessions are also a great Read more...

Coming Up - 7th to 25th July 08 - Free Adult Education Courses
	Community Education's Summer School will be at the KC Stadium, 7th to 25th July. All courses are for learners aged 19+ and will be FREE except to some overseas learners. Please ring 01482 381968 for details. Read more Coming Up ...

Poetry - Much More Than Seven Words By Del Abe Jones.

	Although he really wasn't Everybody's cup of tea He was a great comic And he was very funny. He made fun of everyone And of society's flaws He was arrested for it Read more...

Classified Ads - Looking for Samantha White Aromatherapy

	Does anyone know what happened to the aromatherapy place on Prinny Ave? I moved away from Hull six years ago but always stocked up with their stuff when I visited back here. It was there years. Someone said it had moved to another place on Prinny Ave but I can't find it. What happened to the woman who ran it, is she still around? I used to use two or three of Read more...

Music Reviews - Friday 20th June 08 - Oli Brown Band at The London Bar, Driffield By Steve Rudd
	Whoever came up with the idea of putting a band on at The London Bar deserves a pat on the back. It was certainly inspired. Moreover, whoever decided to allow Oli Brown and his band to play deserves to be bought free drinks for an entire evening. Indeed, Oli Brown & Band put on an incredible show in what has to be Driffield's narrowest pub. Read more...

Music News - ZHAIN: From Hull to Hollywood
	ZHAIN again take the long road from Hull to Hollywood to play a series of shows in Los Angeles over the Independence Day weekend. The band will be showcasing songs from their forthcoming album, Crash Landing. ZHAIN return to the U.K to recommence their Crash Landing Tour with shows in London and Somerset immediately Read more...

Fiction - 100 Words Competition - Resurrection By Leah Scarpati

	Conscious again. The rhythmical drip-drip of condensation echoed around the cave. Kate couldn't see her hand in front of her face, were her eyes even open? The fall had shattered her torch as well as her ankle; as the pain continued to bite, panic rose. She couldn't feel her toes. Hours of calling for help had been swallowed by the chasm of darkness, Read more...

Coming Up, Charity - Saturday 5th July 08 - Phoenix Challenge
	The HERIB local walk/run this year is The Osmotherley Phoenix, an annual walk/run across The Yorkshire Moors. You can choose from 30, 26, or 17 mile route; therefore you can design the challenge that suits you, providing you with a great sense of achievement when accomplished! After an exhilarating challenge you arrive back into Osmotherley to their Read more...

News, Current Affairs - Haltemprice and Howden The Green Party candidate Shan Oakes vows to fight for NHS
	As the 60th anniversary of the NHS approaches, Haltemprice and Howden candidate Shan Oakes speaks out in its defence. "The Green Party stands for a public service, free for all, and where decisions are made at a local level as far as possible, after involving and consulting local people. We are vehemently opposed to piecemeal Read more...

News, Current Affairs - Greens stand for civil liberties in Haltemprice and Howden by-election campaign - July 10th
	Greens argue that David Davis 's vision of civil liberties is in a whole variety of ways far too narrow. It will be difficult for him to see this himself because he is a Tory politician and thoroughly immersed in 'old' politics. Old-style politics stems from the imperialist scramble for global resources. This has to stop: no more wars for oil; no more government backing Read more...

News, Current Affairs - DAVID ICKE NEWS CONFERENCE, WEDNESDAY, JULY 2ND, ELECTION UPDATE
	A news conference has been arranged for David to speak and be questioned by the media between 10am and 11.30am this Wednesday, July 2nd, at this venue: Willerby Manor Hotel, Well Lane, Willerby East, Yorkshire HU10 6ER Come and support David at a free public meeting on Sunday, July 6th David will be speaking for an hour and a half Read more...

News, - Yorkshire & Humber Green Party commend Menwith hunger striker
	On Saturday local Greens gave overwhelming support to the recent protest of peace campaigner Peter Pollard. At the AGM of the Yorkshire and Humber Green Party, Regional Coordinator Eamonn Ward said, 'We commend Peter's protest. For one whole week he has gone without food with only water as his nourishment. 'He has put himself Read more...

News, Current Affairs - David Icke to Stand in 'Big-Brother' By-Election
	David Icke, author of ten books warning about the Big Brother State, is standing with David Davis in the upcoming parliamentary by-election in Haltemprice and Howden. For nearly 20 years, Icke has been been warning about, and detailing the background to, a hidden agenda for a global fascist state that is now unfolding at an ever-increasing pace. Read more...

Music Reviews - Wednesday 26th March 08 - Awash With AntleR At Adelphi By Michelle Dee Photographs by Ian Rook Photography
	My first impressions of Awash With AntleR as my slightly beer-stained notes allow from Wednesday 26th March at Adelphi. Do with them what you will... These girls have a mad penchant for taffeta, nylon clad feet and vintage headgear. There's something rather inviting about them. Reminds me of a Miss Marple novel with debutantes frippery Read more...

Poetry - Watch It Unfold By Joe Hakim

Decades wriggle by like a silverfish, hide from the light when the switch is flicked. Grant the general's dying wish, there's plans to be drawn, sides to be picked. Spin the words like a whirling dervish, habits to be formed and habits to be kicked. Kill the birds and poison the fish,    Read more...

Coming Up, Friday 11th July 08 - K-Fest at Kingswood College of Arts - Line Up Announced
	The Paddingtons headline playing new material from their second album as well as classics from debut long player First Comes First. From Leeds, The Sugars join the party the same week their debut album The Curse Of The Sugars hits the shelves. Watch out for them on NME / MTV2. Also on the bill Kill Surf City, The Riffs, GST Cardinals and Tom Ritchie Read more...

Fiction - 100 Words Competition - The Latter-Day Luddite Saves the Day By Laura Fry

	The police were on a coffee break, at a loss. Despite all the technology, the wanted man had got the better of them. They didn't notice the young woman at the opposite table with an old-fashioned tape recorder, on her way to teach a friend's child German. She had found the man who had just left the café somewhat suspicious and pressed record. This latter-day Luddite was able to tell Read more...

Album Reviews - Satellite State Debut EP Reviewed by Steve Rudd

Producing soaring anthems for the masses, southerners Satellite State should be able to sun themselves silly on the strength of this four-track wonder: their debut EP. Anchored by undeniable commercial zeal and appeal, all four tracks are beautiful, not least opening tune Plans in which Gary Nicks on vocals allows his voice to take flight. Ciaran Stephens on Read more...

Coming Up - Sunday 29th June 08 - Teenage Cancer Trust Show Starring Blah Blah Blah, The Strums And The Strands At Adelphi Club Hull

We all know someone who has suffered from cancer, but just imagine if that someone was still of a school or college age? Each day six UK teenagers are diagnosed with cancer. What kind of life are they going to have just as they are beginning an often long and complicated journey into adulthood? The Teenage Cancer Trust (TCT) Read more...

Poetry - The Fuels of Passion By John Stobart

Her hair draped gently Across my pounding chest Her hands grasping mine Bodies entwined Rhythmic and timely Our passion alight Ecstasy, fantasy,    Read more...

Food and Drink - Sabrini's Café Bar, Princes Avenue, Hull By Michelle Dee
	Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun but given half the chance so do Cilla and I. We had a few hours to bask in the balmy June sun so we visited Sabrini's a new eatery on the Princes Avenue strip. Another one you cry but wait a moment and I will apprise you of the delights this culinary exotica has for the Avenues rover. Sabrini's is located in a revamped Nest Café Read more...

Reviews, Theatre - Tuesday 3rd June 08 - Dolly at Hull New Theatre By Steve Rudd
	A Rockman Music production, this grand old celebration of the glamourous life and times of Country legend Dolly Parton pulls out all the stops to entertain. Even on the opening night of its debut UK tour, the show drew a huge crowd of Dolly fans who were in the mood for singing and clapping along to all her best-known hits. Read more...

News, Environment - Carbon Trust
	The Carbon Trust has launched a free guide for charities wanting to reduce carbon emissions and cut energy use. The guide, called Charities Sector Overview, is aimed at organisations without a designated carbon manager and is intended to help organisations make changes that could save up to 20% on fuel bills. Read more...

Coming Up, Education - Thursday 26th June and Monday 30th June 08 - Sexual Health Course
	A need assessment was carried out by Cornerhouse with both parents and workers earlier this year to explore some of the issues that prevent parents from talking to their children about sexual health. On the back of this research a course has been developed to equip workers with the skills to enable parents to talk to their children about sexual health. Read more...

News, - ACE Volunteers
	ACE (Achieve Contribute Experience) is a brand new project run by Hull & East Yorkshire Mind. The project aims to introduce 16-25 year olds in Hull to volunteering and its many benefits such as, increased self confidence, increased self esteem, improving CVs, helping in the community and making a difference all whilst meeting lots of new people and having fun. Read more...

Poetry - Stubborn Stain By Mike Watts

A frenzy of lips As we engaged In the back of A taxi Your hot wet mouth Crippling me In my jeans    Read more...

Poetry - A Mother So Cold By Paul England

	Mother let me tell you I don't give a fuck shit, I felt it too when brothers life was took I'm the child you would not hold you callous fucking cunt and then you call me cold Read more...

Album Reviews - Heartbroken by Abbie Lammas Reviewed by Steve Rudd
	A prodigiously talented singer-songwriter, Hornsea's Abbie Lammas might only be fifteen, but she's cranking out songs that are mightily mature for her age. Heartbroken is her debut album, and it's an eight-song-strong affair that perfectly shows off Abbie's talents. For the most part, the songs feature just her and her trusted acoustic guitar, though there are a couple of notable exceptions. Read more...

Fiction - 100 Words Competition - Lost Property By Manuro

	My dreadful husband died at an elephant hospice. To this day, whenever I see a sick elephant I feel a rush of overwhelming joy! I changed my name in 1979 and never foresaw the problems this would entail - car insurance, washing machine hire purchase agreements. Women are named through male lineage: we disappear over time, our identity the property of others. Read more...

Classified Ads - Record Attempt Officials Needed - Can You Help?

Hull Kung Fu is a voluntary Martial Arts Group in the Hull and East Riding who raise thousands of pounds for kids charities. One of their members is attempting to break the record for the number of one handed press ups performed in one minute. He is aiming to raise thousands for Jimmys hospital in Leeds. However, he needs 2 officials to monitor him on the day to make sure that he is not cheating (rules of the Guinness Book of Records). Read more...

Album Reviews - Black and White Tango 3 Track Demo By Danielle McLoughlin
	Black and White Tango...a young, fresh out of the packet, extremely talented band, with bags...no, make it bin liners, full of potential. They're most definitely not your stereotypical Indie, Punk, Metal or Emo band. Genres that seem to be all too common and bursting at the seams here in Hull. Black and White Tango have resisted being pigeon holed and have broken the mould by creating their very own unique style, Read more...

Columns - Martians, Venusians and Other Figments of the Popular Imagination By the Silver Fox
	Firstly, an apology to the more nerdly of you who may, from the above title, have expected a stimulating and wide-reaching reappraisal of populist science-fiction - Battlestar Galactica, Dan Dare, and the like. Perhaps another time though, as such matters are rarely far from the thoughts of most cultural types. It will have a far more apposite title, Read more...

Fiction - Two Sides of the Same Tattoo Needle. By Leah Scarpati
	Well I can certainly say I've learned my lesson! Mummy had always warned me about expressing myself through body art, tattoos, piercings and such like; but the more she told me not to, the more determined I became to disobey her. "It's just not what people like us do dahhling," she purred in-between a long drag of a cigarette and a sip of her dry martini. "Just because Read more...

Poetry - Educate The Nation By Jazziee

	It's Jazzi33-J letting you know what's up Crazy are things happening in this world today People are killing each other, thieving and dealing drugs If your loved ones were doing that How would you feel as a mother, brother, sister or son That's why I see no need for kids to carry a gun Read more...

Poetry - Automatic Window Writing By Joe Hakim

Close the blinds. The sun is beginning to shine but I want to stay inside I want to hide don't want to confide in anyone just my mind and I in the noble role of the abuser    Read more...

Poetry - Exam and The Fifth Floor By Heather Cairns

Click crack tap Carved table top Words have drowned Sunk, slunk, shrunk Sank, slink, shrank Words have gone One plus one    Read more...

People - An Interview with Charlie Heather of The Levellers By Steve Rudd
	The Levellers have dominated the Folk-Punk scene for the past twenty years, having had scores of hit singles and albums. Often voted as one of the best live bands in the UK, they've wowed venues and festival audiences all around the world with their brand of politically-charged music. On the brink of performing a huge number of dates at various summer festivals, The Levellers are also on the verge of Read more...

News, - National Volunteers Week 1-7 June 08
	National Volunteers Week (1-7 June) is the busiest time of the year in the volunteering calendar and this year's Hull Volunteering activity diary is no exception. Monday 2nd June To coincide with the anniversary of Her Majesty The Queen's Coronation we will be announcing the name of a local charity whom we successfully nominated for the Queens Award for Voluntary Service 2008. This award is given for outstanding achievement Read more...

Music Reviews - Friday 16th May 08 - Moonbeams Acoustic Evening at The Old Town Hall, Driffield By Steve Rudd
	A lot of people might not realize as much, but Driffield is fast becoming THE place to play host to a hotbed of musical talent from near and far, and it's all thanks to the impassioned enthusiasm and organizational capabilities of Kelk's Leila Slater. Leila adores live music so much that she's been putting on Acoustic nights at The Bell Hotel Read more...

Poetry - I Don't Give A Fuck About Animals By Sally Satan

I don't give a fuck about animals, 'Cos they don't give a fuck about me. I don't give a monkey's about all those donkeys That live in the sanctuary. I don't give a fuck about animals. I really don't feel their pain.    Read more...

Classified Ads - Pop Punk Singer Wanted

	Outspoken Silence have unfortunately just lost their singer, and are looking for somebody who has a voice that would suit the pop punk parts of their songs. The band is a mix between metal and pop punk. They have one vocalist who does all the screaming parts, but need someone with a great voice to be able to pull it off! Outspoken Silence have toured England, Germany and Holland, Read more...

Poetry - Park Rain By Laurenceaux

The rain rodded down, pock-marking the pond as the moon shone in a halo of colours. Sheltered we stood by a roof and our hearts    Read more...

Classified Ads - Guitarist Wanted

	The Moonshine Crows are looking for a guitarist. We are looking for someone who can listen and play for the song. We don't mind who your influences are, just listen and play. We have gigs booked round the UK and recording too. Songs are up on our myspace page. moonshinecrows For more info moonshinecrowsband@yahoo.co.uk Read more...

Classified Ads - Homes For Budgies and Cockatiels Wanted

	I am having to move out of my house for six months due to the floods and want to give away some budgies and cockatiels; about 6 or 7 of each, from my aviary. If you know of anyone who would like them please email birds@thisisUll.com or phone 07886 619923. Read more...

Articles - The Burning Question: Can a Tribute Act Be Better Than The Real Thing? By Steve Rudd

	In a word: yes. A tribute act most definitely can be better than the real thing. Should anybody hanker after proof, then I recommend catching a show by Steve Steinman, an extraordinary singer/ performer from the Newark area who has been wowing crowds the world over for the best part of the past twenty years. At the moment Steve is dividing his attention between two Read more...

Columns - When I lived Among the Poor of Hull By Steve Regan
	It's not the first time the people of Hull have had a minor royal among them, telling them how to live... Yes, long before Sarah Ferguson fetched up in that rough-and-ready northern city and port the local tykes had their very own King of Hull in residence ... namely moi! Well, I wasn't really their king, though they did often call me 'Your Majesty' and 'the King', and I did on few formal occasions wear a crown... Read more...

Poetry - All Around My Hat By Andrea Longstaff

	Nothing is real and nothing is true I am one of the chosen few Nothing I write will ever be read I know the truth to blow your head Nothing I say will make any sense The vacuum we dwell in has made you all dense I will write you a song Read more...

Fiction - 100 Words Competition - Beginnings and Endings By Lin Whitehouse

	It's a hypothetical question, what if - my father hadn't died in June - I hadn't known about my husband's girlfriend - I hadn't looked up when I did? I was caught in a web and struggled to avoid his gaze, felt myself flush. I drowned in his smiling eyes. Could he see my outer sorrow, sense the inner excitement I concealed? It's funny, funerals signify an end, but I felt something was Read more...

Fiction - Hangover By Leah Scarpati
	The day ended as it had begun - disastrously. From the minute she opened one sticky mascara eye, then the other and the hangover woodpecker began to tap-tap-tap at her head; she knew the day was a right off. Her head hurt so much she could she feel her hair growing, her tongue was dry like an arid river bed and was fixed to the top of her mouth; Read more...

Music News - Echoes Of The Silk Road Featuring Quentin Budworth (Hayokee) and Poet Amanda Lowe
	Hayokee frontman Quentin Budworth and the poet and writer Amanda Lowe want to take you on a musical journey inspired by the Traders, Warriors, and Pilgrims that travelled along the fabled Silk Route sharing stories and cultures. Initiated by the Han Dynasty around 114 BC the Silk route or road was instrumental in linking the Middle East to China. Read more...

Fiction - 100 Words Competition - Say No More By Joe Hakim

	I'm on my way to the shops. I don't see him until I nearly step on his head. I look down at the man on the floor, and notice he's on a bike - crotch on seat, feet on pedals, hands on handlebar. Like he's been zapped by a super-villain's freeze ray and toppled over. I look around to make sure it isn't some kind of prank. "Are you okay?" "I'm fine," he replies. Read more...