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What Are My Top 5 Green Spaces Around Hull?

Col from Rewilding Youth tells us his favourite places around the city for checking out the wildlife.

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January 5, 2026 at 7:36 AM
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Why Is There A Kink In Beverley Road?

And no, it’s got nothing to do with Ray Davies or knicker shops, says our warped highways correspondent @angusyoung61.bsky.social

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January 4, 2026 at 8:54 AM
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What Is My Favourite Building In Hull?

Actor Peter McMillan selects a great, offbeat edifice that all of us love and some of us fear!

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January 3, 2026 at 8:24 AM
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Is There A Staircase Inside William Wilberforce’s Monument?

She’s back! Our tenacious Urban Mythbuster Amy Thompson returns to the Hull History Centre to discover the truth about a (very) tall tale.

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January 2, 2026 at 9:17 AM
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How Do You Say ‘Happy New Year’ Around The World?

Our international languages correspondent @philascough.bsky.social presents a handy cut-out-and-keep guide to seeing in the new year wherever you may be.

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January 1, 2026 at 8:26 AM
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How Do You Say ‘Happy New Year’ Around The World?

Our international languages correspondent @philascough.bsky.social presents a handy cut-out-and-keep guide to seeing in the new year wherever you may be.

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January 1, 2026 at 8:26 AM
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Why Did Europe Send Christmas Trees to Hull?

Every year, without fail, the pesky things would just show up. @hulltourguide.bsky.social Paul Schofield finds out why.

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December 24, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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‘You, boy, what type of windows are these?’
December 23, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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What Are The Differences Between Victorian and Georgian Houses?

Now THIS is useful. Let top Hull architect Jonathan Smith help you stop looking foolish in public by mixing housing periods up.

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December 23, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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What Are My Top 5 Princesses?

In Christmas-adjacent mode, Princess Rose – from the Hull & EY Children’s University – gives us her favourite fictional princessesess.

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December 22, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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What Do Footballers Have For Christmas Dinner?

With matches on Boxing Day, what can Johnny Shinpad scoff on the big day, asks our festive gustation correspondent @philascough.bsky.social

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December 21, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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What’s On My Cultural Radar?

Producer of Hull Truck’s current hit show Oliver Twist Luke Dankoff guides us through his picks of the best stuff currently out there.

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December 20, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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What Is My Favourite Building In Hull?

Former Hull and Hessle MP (and Secretary of State, let’s not forget) turned author Alan Johnson selects a proper owld building.

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December 19, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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What Does A Sweet Shop Have To Do With Hull City’s Greatest Ever Player?

Sports writer Tony Collins heads to some waste ground on Anlaby Road to link goodies and a very good player.

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December 18, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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Who Is Hull’s Most Famous Christmas Day Baby?

Our festive parturition correspondent @angusyoung61.bsky.social marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of Hull’s favourite sons. At least, until his mic breaks…

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December 17, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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Do Audiobooks Count As Reading?

They may be very useful in the car, but does the spoken word count as one of your five-a-day? Caitlin and Ally-mai swap opinions.

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December 16, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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December 15, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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What Are My Top 5 Favourite Things?

Dan, from D.A.N. at Artlink, picks some of his favourite things, all of which seem to be food. Good lad!

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December 15, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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How Many Air Raid Warnings Were Sounded In Hull During WW2?

The remarkable story of diarist Winifred Essen and her exceptional and essential note-taking is relayed by our siren chronicling correspondent @angusyoung61.bsky.social

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December 14, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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What’s On My Cultural Radar?

Actress Jessica Jolleys – currently starring in Oliver Twist at Hull Truck – selects some of her current favourite culture highlights.

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December 13, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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What Is My Favourite Sculpture In Hull?

Design journalist Leanne Cloudsdale tells us of her fondness for one of the best-known artworks in the city.

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December 12, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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Where In Hull Are There Mutilated Statues?

Not quite (but very nearly) as gruesome as it sounds but, as @hulltourguide.bsky.social Paul Schofield explains, they may be closer than you’d expect.

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December 11, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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Who Cheated Who In The Great 1970s Hull Bingo Scandal?

Eyes down for a tale of fraud, full houses and fat ladies as our illegal gaming correspondent @angusyoung61.bsky.social gets his card marked.

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December 10, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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What Is The Role Of A Digital Account Manager?

Rachel, of Rix, talks us through what she does at work, which may not be quite what you’d expect.

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December 9, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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What Are My Top 5 Favourite Illustrators?

Wonderful children’s book illustrator Petr Horáček was at the Big Malarkey and he told us all about the artists who inspire him.

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December 8, 2025 at 7:04 AM