Alcohol is the drug of choice amongst many of the young, often drinking so much they are oblivious of the consequences and the risks associated with underage drinking. Nationally each year it is estimated approximately 5,000 young people under the age of 21 die as a result of underage drinking; this includes deaths from road traffic collisions, suicides and from other injuries such as falls, burns and drownings after binge…
Beverley and Holderness MP, Graham Stuart, pressed the case for the Beverley Southern Relief Road at a meeting with the Secretary of State for Transport, Philip Hammond. The meeting came just weeks after the Minister announced the scheme would be allowed to go forward and bid for a slice of £600 million earmarked for transport schemes in the region. Graham said: “The Minister made it very clear that while the…
Anyone who is enjoying ‘Turn Back Time – The High Street’ currently showing on BBC 1 may be interested to know that the project will be visiting Beverley between Monday 22nd and 26th November. The Video Nation Network (an online platform that allows people to submit and share videos, and add their voice, to BBC projects and news) will be bringing a bus kitted out with editing facilities to enable…
Strawberry, one of East Yorkshire’s leading marketing and design agencies, is celebrating the success of its recent fund raising drive in support of breast cancer research. Strawberry, along with six of its clients including Gosschalks Solicitors, MKM, Dee, Atkinson & Harrison, Green Planet Solutions, Abbey Medical Group and BSC Solutions, gave its website a bright pink make over and raised over £1,400 for Breast Cancer Campaign’s: Wear it Pink Day…
Safer Roads Humber has been working closely with East Riding of Yorkshire Council and the contractors installing a new roundabout on the Beverley section of the A1079 to ensure safety during the road works. The roundabout forms part of a new access route for Swift Caravans which have funded all the works. Once this new access is operational it will relieve Cottingham of all traffic associated with Swift Caravans. The…
Former World, Olympic, European, Commonwealth and British 400-metre hurdles champion Sally Gunnell joined more than a thousand runners in the McCain Yorkshire Coast 10k road race in Scarborough last Sunday. Organised by Scarborough Athletic club to raise funds for a new track facility in Scarborough, the race attracted a strong field of athletes from running clubs all over Yorkshire. They were joined by 38 members of Beverley Athletic Club competing…
MP for Beverley and Holderness, Graham Stuart, today said he would be working hard to make sure plans for a southern relief road around Beverley would go ahead. His comments came after the Department for Transport announced the East Riding Council would be allowed to put forward a bid for the £35 million project. Many other transport schemes across the Yorkshire and Humber region have been shelved including a £200…
Each year the Beverley Lions Club organise their Annual Fireworks Display on Guy Fawkes Night, which this year is on Friday 5th November and will take place as usual on the Beverley Westwood adjacent to Westwood Road. **INFORMATION FOR BEVERLEY LIONS BONFIRE 2011 ** The Bonfire which is provided by the Beverley Town Council will be lit at 7-15 pm by the Mayor of Beverley, Councillor Bessie Foot, together with…
A traffic management plan has been put in place around Beverley Westwood for bonfire night. This will involve part closures of Keldgate Road, Westwood Road and Walkington Road, which will reduce the availability of parking nearby. To reduce congestion visitors to the Beverley Lions bonfire are advised to use town centre car parks in Beverley which are all free after 6pm. The following road closures will be in effect: 1 …
New traffic lights at a busy junction will be switched on this Tuesday. Work to install traffic signals at the busy Jock’s Lodge Interchange where the A1079 Beverley Bypass meets the A164 between Beverley and Willerby is almost complete. The scheme has been designed to improve traffic flows at the junction with particular emphasis on allowing traffic coming off the A1079 to join the A164 safely. The signals are due…
MP for Beverley and Holderness, Graham Stuart, has toured the new East Riding Community Hospital site with the Chief Executive and Chairman of NHS East Riding. Environmental work has started on the Swinemoor Lane site to trap protected great crested newts. And, health officials say, in just a few weeks work will start on creating the entrance and slip roads which will reduce the hospital’s impact on traffic along the…
Beverley Athletic Club’s Press Officer, Kay Farrow, is currently living in Mauritius and competed in her first race there on Sunday. Here is her account of the event. My first race in Mauritius (The Orange International Marathon and Half-Marathon) and I won a prize! I was the second lady veteran to cross the line in the Orange half-marathon and I was awarded a medal, a large trophy and 3000 rupees…
An experimental one way system in the area around Beverley’s Wednesday Market is to be removed on Wednesday, 11 August 2010. The one way system was introduced in 2008 following temporary traffic management measures to protect pedestrians during a major re-paving scheme in and around Wednesday Market. Now, following assessment of the impacts of the experimental traffic regulation order on residents and on traffic flows, an exhibition and consultation, measures…
Beverley Town faced Scarborough in a pre-season friendly on Saturday. Town went behind early though on the stroke of half time leveled things up with a goal from Micheal O’connell. In the second half it was one way traffic as Beverley smashed in a further four goals ending the match 5 – 1 winners. Skipper Jonny Ricardo who also scored scored said: “We played a lot better after the break…
We left Beverley in the early hours (4am) on Wednesday morning, June 23rd. Arriving in Summerset in good time around 8.30am. Unfortunately the last 13 miles of traffic to the Worthy farm in Pilton was at a stand still, and took a further 7 hours until we reached the car parks, quite a frustrating experience in temperatures reaching 280 c and knowing that we had missed the England game kick…
Home delivery may no longer be the name of the game, but a real interest in customers’ lives is still at the core of Beverley delicatessen G and A Jack. The popular Wednesday Market shop, run by Duncan Jack and his wife Joy, is this month celebrating its 50th anniversary as one of the town’s most popular and best loved businesses. Like most aspects of Beverley life, G and A…
A special preview of detailed plans for the proposed new community hospital for the East Riding of Yorkshire will take place on 27 May 2010 at Temperton House, Beverley Westwood Hospital between 12 noon and 7 pm. Visitors will also be able to view a video ‘fly-through’ of the new building and meet the team behind the proposed new development. The reserved matters planning application is to be submitted to…
Police are searching for witnesses after a 13-year-old schoolboy was injured in a road-traffic accident in Beverley. The boy was in a collision with a blue-coloured Chrysler – partial registration believed to be A9 BGC – on the pelican crossing on Molescroft Road at 3.55pm on Thursday 6 May. The driver failed to stop. The victim, who was on his way home from school, was eventually moved to Hull Royal…
