Visitors and residents celebrate Freedom Festival in Hull
Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan speaks to young
Road closures during Hull's Freedom Festival
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Hull FC face Leeds Rhinos in the Super 8s this evening, five days after their Challenge Cup victory.
Image source, PAHull FC, who beat the Rhinos in the semi-finals of the Challenge Cup, rest Liam Watts, Mark Minichiello and Josh Griffin after Saturday's Wembley win over Wigan.
Three Girls actress Maxine Peake remembers Lillian Bilocca in a new City of Culture play.
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Humberside Police are looking for help in identifying a man they want to speak to in connection with an assault in Bridlington.
Image source, Humberside PoliceThe incident is said to have happened around 01:30 on Thursday 24 August.
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It's the last day for football clubs to sign and sell players before the transfer window closes at midnight tonight.
Here's a summary from Matt Dean about what we can expect:
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An interactive musical theatre production highlighting the crisis in Ukraine has kick-started the Freedom Festival in Hull.
The festival is marking its 10th anniversary this weekend with hundreds of live music, theatre, poetry and street art performances set to take place across the city centre and on the marina.
Ukrainian production Counting Sheep: A Guerrilla Folk Opera, which started on Wednesday, and a lecture by former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan are among the highlights.
Others include a procession of giant giraffe statues in Queen Victoria Square by French theatre company Compagnie Off and a mass participatory dance show involving up to a 100 volunteers.
Organiser Mikey Martins says he wants to create a continental feel to the festival.
Quote MessageI love those European festivals where you're sitting there on the street at 10 o'clock or 11 o'clock at night and you see loads of kids and older people hanging out. I really want us to create that atmosphere in Hull"
Mikey Martins, Artistic director, Freedom Festival
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BBC Look North
Tickets for a play written by Maxine Peake about safety campaigner Lillian Bilocca go on sale at 2pm this afternoon. , external
Image source, Hull Truck TheatreThis site-specific performance will lead audiences through Hull’s historic Guildhall, the Grade II listed home of Hull City Council.
It follows Lilly in 1968 as she and her friends dare to speak out and take action to improve the safety conditions for their men at sea.
Image source, Hull Truck TheatreQuote MessageWe hope our telling of this story about the extraordinary women from this extraordinary city will entertain and stimulate an outsider's view on a past community in a city that is very much alive and kicking hard!"
Maxine Peake, Writer and actor
Kofi Smiles
BBC Face of Hull 2017
Hull 2017's Chief Executive Martin Green has taken to the stage to announce what people can expect over the next four months.
Here are some of the things we can expect over the next four months.
Writer and actress Maxine Peake tells the audience about her plans to showcase the work of Hull campaigner Lillian Bilocca who fought for safer working conditions on the trawler fleets.
She said Lillian Bilocca was an amazing woman and a "fantastic presence."
Tickets for the work showcasing the campaign by Lillian Bilocca go on sale , externalfrom 14:00 BST today.
Kofi Smiles
BBC Face of Hull 2017
The man in charge of delivering Hull's City of Culture events has told an audience the next four months will celebrate successful contemporary artists.
Martin Green, the Chief executive of Hull 2017, was speaking at the launch of Hull's season Four called "Tell the World."
He told people that they have plans for city which go beyond 2017 and will carry on for the next few years.
You can watch the announcement live here.
Quote MessageTell the World will 'propel us into the years ahead'
Martin Green, Hull 2017
BBC Radio Humberside
Actress Maxine Peake has been talking to BBC Radio Humberside's David Burns about the play she has written on the life of Hull safety campaigner Lillian Bilocca.
Maxine was speaking during an announcement on what people can expect from season four of City of Culture.
You can watch the announcement live here.
Quote MessageI was just fascinated about these women who led ordinary lives but did extraordinary things.
Maxine Peake
Jonathan Willis
BBC Look North
Hull City of Council leader Stephen Brady has announced that Hull's year as City of Culture has exceeded all their expectations
He was speaking at the launch of Hull's City of Culture season four called, "Tell the World."
Mr Brady also told people watching that Hull has the fastest growing economy in Yorkshire and 500 jobs have been created in the city centre since the start of 2017.
Kofi Smiles
BBC Face of Hull 2017
A new play written by actress Maxine Peake is to honour a woman who battled to improve safety on North Sea trawlers.
Hull's Lillian Bilocca, known as Big Lil, led a campaign after three ships sank in 1968 with the loss of 58 lives.
The Hull Truck Theatre show in November will be part of the final season of events being announced for Hull's year as City of Culture.
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An announcement is being made on what people can expect over the next four months from Hull's City of Culture events.
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It's too easy for young people to order so-called laughing gas online, according to politicians in Pocklington.
Image source, PAThey've expressed concern after empty nitrous oxide gas canisters were found littering the town's skateboard park.
They've advised parents to make sure their children are not getting gas canisters delivered in the post.
A court ruled yesterday that the sale of nitrous oxide is legal, because of a loophole in the drugs laws.
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People in Hull have until today to decide whether or not they'd support litter enforcement in the city.
It could include on-the-spot fines for those caught dropping rubbish. Hull City Council says all options will be explored if the public supports the idea.
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Beverley's Kyle Edmund is through to the third round of the US Open.
Image source, EPAEdmund, ranked 42nd, beat American Steve Johnson 7-5 6-2 7-6 (7-4) to reach round three for the second year running.
He will next face unseeded 18-year-old Canadian Denis Shapovalov, who upset French eighth seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-4 6-4 7-6 (7-3).
He is the last Briton standing after six were initially entered in the main draw.
Kofi Smiles
BBC Face of Hull 2017
The fourth and final season of Hull's City of Culture year has just been announced.
The final season is called "Tell the World" and organisers say it's about spreading the message about Hull and securing a lasting legacy for the city.
The last four months will see the reopening of the Hull New Theatre and the Turner Prize come to the Ferens Art Gallery.
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A bright start to the morning in most places, with some cloud developing this afternoon.
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BBC Look North
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