Beverley is a largely Georgian town, but how much do local residents know about Georgian times?
The new exhibition at Beverley Guildhall, ‘Through the eyes of a Georgian gentleman’, uses the diary of a Beverley gentleman, John Courtney, who lived in the town from 1734 to 1806, to illustrate how life in Georgian England was experienced by real people in Beverley. The exhibition opens on Wednesday, 6 March.
An essential repair scheme is to be carried out to strengthen the historic road bridge at Stamford Bridge, near York, following years of damage.
The 80m-long village bridge, built in 1727 – making it almost 300 years old – has been struck in traffic accidents over the past few years, causing severe damage to its parapets.
For the first time in 17 years, the East Riding of Yorkshire council has passed a budget, shaped and influenced by the opposition groups, and reflects the new no overall control situation on the council.
The Conservative leadership needed to make budget concessions to the Liberal Democrat, Labour and Yorkshire Party groups in order to deliver a budget which was approved by 53 votes at today’s budget council meeting.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council is supporting the Global Action Plan which is highlighting the harms caused by wood burning.
Clean Air Night takes place on Wednesday 24 January and shines a light on the uncomfortable truths about wood burning.
Most people in the UK don’t know that wood burning is bad for our health and for the environment.
Graham Stuart, Member of Parliament for Beverley and Holderness, brought together cross-party councillors from across Beverley and Molescroft to express their concerns to Connexin, the Hull-based fibre broadband provider, about its planned delivery of broadband by telegraph poles to the town.
After seeing other neighbourhoods have telegraph poles imposed on them without sufficient consultation, Graham convened the councillors around the table with Connexin to ensure the people of Beverley and Molescroft have their voices heard.
Residents with hearing and sight impairments across the Humberside Police area will directly benefit from a new project, created by East Riding of Yorkshire Council and Community VISION, in association with Hull and East Yorkshire Centre for the Deaf.
A new podcast and BSL (British Sign Language) signed video were launched at a recent event in Beverley to highlight fraud awareness and protection, allowing residents to access information which would otherwise have been unavailable to them.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) grant scheme is now open to support providers to deliver fun activities for children and young people aged 5-16 years who are in receipt of benefits related free school meals in the Easter holidays.
There’s up to £5,000 available for organisations to provide activities including sport, play, drama, cooking, crafts, dance, music, healthy lifestyles, art or outdoor adventures.
For residents who intend to use taxis this holiday season, East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s licensing team advises them to plan ahead and only use legally licensed taxis.
The council warns that bogus taxi drivers should be avoided. Social media should not be used to request ‘lifts’ unless a licensed driver is offering them. There are often no licensed drivers or vehicles involved in ‘lifts’, and they have not been vetted or checked.
Councillors in Hull and the East Riding have today agreed that proposals for devolution in the region should go out to public consultation.
Hull City Council and East Riding of Yorkshire Council both held extraordinary full council meetings, in which each council voted in favour of progressing with the devolution proposals.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council has launched a Festive Wellness campaign aimed at supporting people with the most common topics people reach out for help with during the festive period.
The campaign includes 12 days of Christmas Cheer. 12 days of Christmas typically starts on Christmas Day and sees us into the New Year. These can be both the greatest and some of the hardest days we go through in the year.
Essential road improvements are to get underway in the village of Burnby near Pocklington early in the new year.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council will invest £300,000 in carrying out resurfacing work along Road Through Loaningdale, Burnby, which is due to start on Monday 8 January
For East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s bin collection teams, Christmas and New Year are the busiest times of the year.
The good news is the vast majority of the waste generated during the holidays – such as cards, wrapping paper, cardboard boxes and leftover food – can be recycled.
As winter tightens its grip, residents in the East Riding on low incomes are being urged to check whether they are eligible for help with food and energy bills from the latest Household Support Fund payments.
Applications to the Fund have reopened, and payments of £350 are available to help those on low incomes or unpaid carers facing increasing energy and food bills. The payments are available to anybody in the East Riding who is eligible and who has not previously received a payment.
Devolution for Hull and East Yorkshire took another step forward today as Cabinet recommended that the deal on the table should go forward to public consultation in the new year.
On Wednesday, 29 November 2023, Hull City Council will hold two public engagement events in partnership with East Riding of Yorkshire Council and the region’s two main bus operators, East Yorkshire Buses and Stagecoach.
From 10am-1.30pm, East Yorkshire Buses will be providing a fully electric, zero-emission, single-deck demonstrator Volvo BZL bus at Queen Victoria Square, Hull, and from 2-3.30pm at Hessle Square. No appointment is necessary for residents and local stakeholders to attend.
Over the next few days, East Yorkshire residents should prepare themselves for possible flooding.
Storm Ciarán is expected to bring more heavy rainfall to our area from midnight tonight (00:00 Thursday 2 November), following last weekend’s unexpected weather that flooded more than 20 roads.
As a Disability Confident Committed employer, Acklams Coaches joins a growing list of organisations in the East Riding.
To provide businesses with advice on the benefits of being a disability-confident employer and how to achieve the scheme award, East Riding of Yorkshire Council has held a series of events in partnership with the Department for Work and Pensions and Humber Learning Consortium over the summer.