Television screens remain blank in Filey as efforts to build a new transmitter mast at Bilsdale are being frustrated by access issues. The mast operator Arqiva are trying to negotiate with a nearby landowner, but may have to go through the courts to enable access to the mast site for heavy equipment required to erect the […]

Police are appealing for witnesses after a cyclist was knocked off his bike by a car on Scarborough Road, Filey near East Lea Farm. The car failed to stop and drove off leaving the cyclist injured in the road. The cyclist was a man in his 60s, he remains in hospital where he is being treated […]

A century ago the North Eastern Railway ran the train services through Filey and Hunmanby. Twenty-five of their busier stations boasted beautiful tiled maps, depicting the network of the North Eastern Railway. Sadly, the vast majority have been lost, but nine survivors can be viewed at Beverley, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Morpeth, Saltburn, Scarborough, Tynemouth, York and Whitby. […]

Perhaps we are getting complacent? A little blasé even. Filey’s beach has featured in yet another ‘best beaches’ article. They seem to be almost daily. Perhaps it is because we have always known that our beach is on a par with anything? Everyone else seems to be catching on. We partly joke of course. It is […]

Televisions and radios in Filey are still without any signal in the wake of the fire that engulfed the Bilsdale transmitter. Whilst some services have been partially restored to parts of County Durham, for Filey and most of North Yorkshire it will be 28 August before the television pictures return to our screens. It is possible […]

Once again Filey has been named among the best beaches in Britain. This time by the New York based Condé Nast. Of course, there are many such lists and understandably Filey appears in virtually them all. This time the beaches aren’t listed in any order, so Filey is one among a selected forty-four of ‘the best beaches […]

Scarborough Borough Council and Filey Town Council are looking to develop a new vision for the future of Filey. Over the coming six months they are undertaking a residents’ survey where ideas can be contributed that will help identify priorities for the town. The survey can be completed online and there are also drop in […]

Television and radio reception in Filey, and across a large part of north east England, has been lost after lightning struck the Bilsdale transmitter mast near Helmsley. Firefighters were called to the mast on Tuesday after an engineer working on the site reported a fire within the structure. The 1,032 foot mast was photographed with flames […]

Between Saturday 28 August and Tuesday 31 August, Filey Sailing Club will be hosting the 2021 RS Tera National Championship. It will be quite a spectacle as one hundred boats will take part in the main regatta, with many more expected to take part in two other events. The RS Tera is a single-manned sailing dinghy, […]

On Monday October 4th the star of BBC Radio 3’s The Verb, Ian McMillan, will be appearing at Filey’s Evron Centre alongside his sidekick, Olympic composer Luke Carver Goss. It should be an unmissable night of words, music and stories. The event was originally scheduled as part of the Filey Literature Festival which was postponed […]