Tickets for the headlining acts of Filey Literature Festival have gone on sale. The festival is taking place over the bank holiday weekend of Friday 22 to Sunday 24 May, 2020. The opening act is the ‘Bard of Barnsley’ Ian McMillan. On Saturday 23 May the popular crime writer Frances Brody is in town talking […]
Swim Safe, a national programme offering free outdoor swimming and water safety sessions is coming to The Yorkshire Coast to promote respect for the sea to children. Swim Safe is entirely free to attend, it was founded by the Andrew McGeown Legacy Fund. Andrew was a well-loved local man who sadly died after going into the […]
The producers of the exciting TV survival program are looking for Filey adventurers to test their skills and instincts in the wilderness. Channel 4’s The Island with Bear Grylls will take a group of volunteers to a remote location and push them to their limits. Four contestants from the previous series were from Yorkshire: Police […]
The famous Red Arrows, a Spitfire squadron and The RAF Falcons Parachute Display Team will be flying up the coast, over Filey to celebrate the bravery of our armed forces. The Red Arrows, one of the world’s most famous aerobatic display teams, will take the distinctive Hawk jets to the skies for 15 minutes with […]
Yorkshire Beach cleans are taking place in Scarborough and Filey from 10am this morning, as part of a national project organised by Surfers Against Sewage. It’s their biggest ever ‘Big Spring Beach Clean’ involving over 10,000 volunteers to clean up our beaches and recycle single-use or ‘disposable’ plastics that are polluting the nation’s coastline and rivers. […]
Beard fanatics have been invited to meet the owners of Yorkshire’s most impressive facial sculptings. Yorkshire Beard Day returns on March 4th with an afternoon event at the Scarborough Spa Complex. The free day out in the building’s Sun Court will see the crowning of the Yorkshire Beard 2017 winner at a special evening dinner. […]
Filey.co.uk is proud to present Filey Forum, the online place for the local community to discuss the town. We are hoping to help give the community a voice online as well as connect people offline. We have made Filey Forum, incredibly easy to use, it lets you login straight away with Facebook, so there’s no […]
Local ecommerce millionaire – who wishes to remain anonymous – is banking thousands of pounds a week, selling literally “fresh air” to the Chinese super-elite, for as much as £100 a jar. More than 90% of sales, go to the polluted cities of Shanghai and Beijing, where the fashionable elite will happily pay a hefty […]
Coastliner buses from Leeds to Whitby, Filey, Scarborough and Bridlington are going to be capable of transferring twice as many passengers soon, with the introduction of the “quad-decker” Coastliner set to trial from March 2016. The bus operator expressed it had seen a gap in the market for four-tier buses and expect them to encourage […]