The dinner to mark the 242nd anniversary of the Battle of Flamborough Head was a stunning success at the White Lodge Hotel on Thursday evening. The organising group, Filey Bay 1779, are committed to making it an annual event and it is hoped that next year will be even more spectacular. Due to the pandemic restrictions […]

The Trackrod Rally returns to Filey this weekend. On Friday evening at 6pm the ceremonial start will take place on Filey seafront. The drivers will then be flagged away by the Mayor of Filey at 7pm. Rally fans can take photographs with the cars, get autographs and speak with the crews before the event. The cars then travel to Dalby […]

On Thursday 23rd September the White Lodge Hotel will be hosting a glittering dinner to commemorate the 242nd anniversary of the Battle of Flamborough Head. On sale at the bar will be a special run of lowland rum named John Paul Jones, in honour of the Scottish born captain of the American ship the Bonhomme […]

The fabulous Filey Folk Festival has begun, filling the town’s pubs and streets with music and song. From virtually every pub comes the enticing sounds of live music, something that is even more wonderful to hear after the long covid lockdowns. On Thursday evening the festival opener flew out of the blocks at a packed Glasshouse. […]

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 […]