{"id":268695,"date":"2025-07-17T07:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T07:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/268695\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T07:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T07:11:09","slug":"ex-boxer-tommy-coyle-nominated-for-hulls-highest-honour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/268695\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-boxer Tommy Coyle nominated for Hull’s highest honour"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Freedom of the City is a way for Hull to acknowledge and celebrate those who have made a positive impact on the city and its people.<\/p>\n

Mr Coyle said: “Regardless of the award, I’m still going to continue the things that I do and I still have my own mission that I want to achieve in Hull.” <\/p>\n

The Coyle family fruit business has a stall in Hull City Centre. It has been running for more than 30 years and was originally set up by Chris Coyle, who passed away in 2022<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He said: “My dad would have deep down been really really proud of this and been down the market telling people our Thomas has been nominated for Freedom of the City. I think he’d have been happy.” <\/p>\n

Mr Coyle set up a sporting foundation when he retired from boxing in 2019 and has led multiple initiatives for underprivileged children, including a mobile boxing gym and school uniform giveaways. <\/p>\n

Hull City Councillors Shane McMurray and Daren Hale nominated Mr Coyle and Mr Hudgell and said: “These nominations celebrate two individuals who represent the very best of Hull \u2013 commitment to community, achievement, and giving back.”<\/p>\n

They described Mr Hudgell as “a leading solicitor, philanthropist, and lifelong champion for justice, sport, and regeneration in Hull.”<\/p>\n

Mr Coyle said: “It feels great to be thought of in this nice way, I think to be recognised in the same sort of light as Neil Hudgell who I’ve looked up to for years.” <\/p>\n

The nominations of Mr Coyle and Mr Hudgell will be discussed at a full meeting of Hull City Council later. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Freedom of the City is a way for Hull to acknowledge and celebrate those who have made…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-268695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114867331642923148","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}