BRIDLINGTON, England, July 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- "I feel like a rock star" sums it up for Bailey, aged 5, who starred as a fish in Saturday's performance of Beached at the Bridlington Spa.

BRIDLINGTON, England, July 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Opera North today announces that the community opera, Beached, by Harvey Brough to a text by Lee Hall, is continuing as planned. We have been at pains to work closely with the writers at all times, and have supported their rights of artistic expression throughout.

And today their efforts were rewarded with honours in the annual Yorkshire in Bloom awards.Twenty-two winners - stretching from the tiny hamlet of Mill Bank, to Leeds, and Bridlington - were picked from more than 250 entrants at the annual celebration of all things floral.Individual victors included the likes of Middlethorpe Hall, in York, St Gemma's Hospice, in Moortown, Leeds, and Sheffield's Botanical Gardens.Maurice Baren, chairman of Yorkshire in Bloom, said: "In spite of the dreadful wet weather we have had this summer, Yorkshire people have been determined to do their best and provide the county with wonderful floral displays, as well as caring for their natural habitats and other environmental areas."People of all ages and groupings are showing that they really want to make the places where they live or work, or where people come as tourists, as attractive as possible."Appleton Wiske, Barwick in Elmet, Wetherby, and Harrogate picked up the hotly-contested gold medals in the vil

By Simon Bristow The Save Bridlington Hospital Campaign Action Group, is now working with a Hull-based solicitors to help patients tackle potential claims against Scarborough and North East Yorkshire Healthcare NHS Trust.Campaigners say they expect problems to arise following last week's decision by Health Secretary Alan Johnson to downgrade services at Bridlington Hospital.The Hull West and Hessle MP backed controversial plans by the trust to transfer all emergency medical admissions and cardiac monitoring from Bridlington to Scarborough Hospital, which is expected to be completed in three months.Clinical negligence specialist Simon Wilson, of Neil Hudgell Solicitors, will offer advice and act on a no-win, no-fee basis if any claims are pursued.Campaign chairman Mick Pilling said: "We have been in talks with Simon Wilson and we have arranged for any patients having a claim against the trust to contact Simon or me direct, and all information will be treated with the strictest confiden

By Alexandra Wood Acclaimed world music festival Musicport is being staged in Bridlington for the first time this year and yesterday performers proved they were up for anything including the British weather.Bridlington-based dance-music duo Nick Burman and Stef M introduced South Beach to "didgeridance" while African world musician Robert Maseko brought out his djembe drum.The Alley Cats, a blue grass band, made up of four family members playing mandolin, double bass, guitar and percussion instruments, also from Bridlington, squeezed into the hut, alongside the suitably named the Hut People, local accordion and percussion duo Sam Pirt and Gary Hammond.Organisers are hoping for record audiences at the ninth festival which takes place from October 17 to 19 at Bridlington Spa.Among those already booked to appear are Grammy award-winning Malian kora player Toumani Diabat, the Levellers, Rolf Harris, Ska Cubano and Ivo Papasov and his Wedding Band.Co-founder Sue McLaughlin said: "We had a