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Bek Homer

Scarborough

Radio Presenter at BBC Radio York

North Yorkshire Coast 🏠 BBC Radio York @bbcyork Tuesdays 7pm - 10pm Fridays 10am - 2pm The Localist - Scarborough @bbcsounds (Views are my own)

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  • 1 week ago | bbc.com | Fiona Callow |Bek Homer

    'I spent two years in bed then I found garden therapy'Fiona Callow & Bek HomerBek Homer/BBCGraham Varley has been a member of Coastline Sight and Hearing for three yearsA charity is using the power of gardening to help people living with sight and hearing loss in North Yorkshire. Scarborough-based Coastline Sight and Hearing is running allotment sessions to give people the opportunity to come together to garden, chat and have plenty of cups of tea.

  • Dec 8, 2024 | yahoo.com | Grace Wood |Bek Homer

    A memorial service is being held on Sunday to remember three lifeboatmen who died in a storm 70 years ago. Jack Cammish, Jack Sheader and Francis Bayes died when they fell overboard while escorting fishing vessels to Scarborough's South Bay on 8 December, 1954. Fisherman Fred Normandale, 76, who was a boy when the tragedy occurred, said he remembered his parents discussing the event in whispers. AdvertisementHe said: "It was devastating.

  • Nov 1, 2024 | msn.com | Bek Homer |Katharine Wootton

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  • Nov 1, 2024 | yahoo.com | Bek Homer |Katharine Wootton

    Bryony Jackson, Nicky Hurrell and Sally Alexander have raised more than £15,000 for charity Young Lives vs Cancer [Bryony Jackson]A single trip up the the 199 steps near Whitby Abbey is enough to get anyone's thighs burning - so spare a thought for the trio who scaled the landmark 14 times. But Bryony Jackson, who took on the challenge to fundraise for charity after her niece Isla was diagnosed with cancer, said "walking up stairs is nothing compared to what she's going through".

  • Apr 12, 2024 | bbc.co.uk | Emily Johnson |Bek Homer

    Sitting in his Scarborough home that once belonged to the "extraordinary" Stephen Joseph, playwright Sir Alan Ayckbourn reflects on his career. Now 85 years old, Sir Alan is getting ready to debut his 90th play and confessed that he had already written his 91st. His expansive career has won him Tony and Olivier awards for plays such as A Chorus of Disapproval, but the start of his success story was somewhat unorthodox.

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Bek Homer
Bek Homer @bekbythesea
28 Mar 25

What's your favourite bit of art on your walls? I love my #LincolnLightfoot print. Tell me yours. I'm on @BBCYork from 10am until 2pm https://t.co/anQHr0tlAO

Bek Homer
Bek Homer @bekbythesea
20 Mar 25

Tomorrow I will be cycling 40 miles on an exercise bike while on air on @BBCYork to celebrate 40 years of @comicrelief Let's go back to 1985! https://t.co/p8V7Wxl0XL

Bek Homer
Bek Homer @bekbythesea
20 Mar 25

RT @scarboroughjazz: 🗣 Yesterday morning, Scarborough Jazz Festival Director Mark Gordon was speaking to @BBCYork's @bekbythesea on all thi…