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.
Candidates Standing In Beverley & Holderness for the upcoming general election have been confirmed.
In all, there are five parties looking to win the support of residents in Beverley & Holderness and win a seat currently held by the Conservative Party.
Lib Dem Parliamentary Candidate Denis Healy says Brexit has become a national embarrassment.
Mr Healy, who is standing in the 2019 General Election on 12 December wants to see Brexit stopped. He also feels his party are offering a voter’s real way to the UK exiting the EU.
With the election approaching here is how you can register to vote. The general election of 2019 is scheduled to take place on 12 December.
Anyone within the East Riding of Yorkshire who wants to take part needs to be registered. To register to vote only takes a few minutes and can be done online.
The Yorkshire Party will be talking its ‘One Yorkshire Pledge’ onto the streets of the county starting in Northallerton on Wednesday (Yorkshire Day) to get signatures.
The idea is to show the Government the level of popular support for a One Yorkshire devolution deal and get them to act on it.
Longcroft School students from Year 13 marked the end of their school days with a prom held at The Deep in Hull.
Over 80 guests attended the event that included a meal with entertainment on the night provided by Ace Disco Party Sounds and the ever popular Yorkshire Party Booth.
The Yorkshire Party are inviting local people to attend a meeting where they plan to outline the benefits an independant Yorkshire would gain.
Taking place in Market Weighton, The East Yorkshire Group of the Yorkshire Party hope residents of the county will come along to join their discussion.
This week the house of Commons will discuss Yorkshire’s devolution though Ministers have already made it clear there would be ‘no deal’ for the whole of Yorkshire.
Taking place on Tuesday the debate has been made by the MP John Grogan. News of the that the topic will be discussed in Parliament has been welcomed by the Yorkshire Party.
Speak to us will be the call from the Leader of the Yorkshire Party at its Annual Conference in York on Saturday 7 October 2017.
The Yorkshire Party, who want to see the region have more of say in its own future and ultimately say leaders in the county have disappeared out of sight.
Members of the Yorkshire Party have posed for pictures for pictures holding a giant cheque outside the offices of MP David Davis.
Standing outside the constituency office in Willerby, Diana Wallis, the Yorkshire Party Parliamentary candidate for Haltemprice & Howden was joined by other members of the party.
Yorkshire Party Leader, Stewart Arnold says the deal struck between the Conservative Party and the DUP shows just how impotent Yorkshire’s MPs are.
His comments come after the DUP confirmed they would support Theresa May in return for a number of concessions including an additional £1 billion in funding over a two year period.
In comparison to the General Election of 2015 when the Yorkshire Party secured 6,600 votes from its 14 candidates, in Thursday’s poll the party gained 20,958 from 21 candidates.
For the candidate in Beverley & Holderness Lee Walton, they saw an increase of 0.08pc as beating in the Greens winning a total of 1,158 votes.
Yorkshire Party candidates are challenging their Labour and Conservative opposites in the upcoming General Election for their views on a Yorkshire devolution deal.
In Beverley and Holderness Lee Walton will be looking to win voters over as the party promises to put the regions interests first.
John Thompson was one of many people in Beverley, who this afternoon were happy to take a free balloon to show his support for the Conservative Party candidate Graham Stuart.
Mr. Thompson who lives life on the edge collected his free balloon and tied it to the handle bars of his push bike and was delighted to pose for photos.
Yorkshire Party candidate Lee Walton says the key goal of their party is to give the county a voice by forming its own regional parliament.
Mr. Walton who will be standing for the Yorkshire Party in Beverley and Holderness in the 2017 general election on 8 June believes this would help tackle the divide between the North and the South.
A post put on Social Media appealing for members of the public to volunteer to deliver leaflets for Conservative MP Graham Stuart has triggered some interesting responses.
Made on Tuesday, the post asks for people with a spare couple of hours to get in touch and deliver 100 leaflets to homes in the Beverley & Holderness area.
Johanna Boal from Beverley, has been selected as Labour’s Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for the Beverley and Holderness constituency for the General Election on 8 June.
Mrs Boal said she wants to restore hope to people’s lives that have been ruined by the ‘cynical and cruel Tories’ that she says have slashed spending locally.
