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Beverley Town Council has unsurprisingly decided not to purchase the building formally occupied by the Crown Post Office.
The Post Office in the Beverley has been empty since closing as services were franchised to the retailer WH Smith.
Hull University Teaching Hospitals Trust’s official charity WISHH has expressed their gratitude to communities across the region for their fundraising efforts.
As a result of the pandemic sweeping across the nation, the charity launched the WISHH COVID-19 Appeal.
St Mary’s Church Beverley – home to some of the finest medieval architecture of any parish church in the country – announces that the first phase in its major restoration programme has reached the halfway point on schedule, despite the coronacrisis and the three storms which have passed through since the scaffolding was put up in February!
East Riding Libraries are encouraging families across the region to celebrate the bedtime story and reading together.
They want families to join them in this year’s Pyjamarama, an event organised by the BookTrust that takes place on Friday 1 May.
MP Graham Stuart has welcomed changes made by the Department for Transport that will help keep the countries supply chains moving.
His comments come after they confirmed that drives of buses and lorries licence renewal will be suspended as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
With so many young people feeling sad that Lifestyle 2020 has been cancelled those behind the incentive have come up with a new idea.
Lifestylers are being invited to take part in an art-based scheme that can be completed from the comfort of their own home.
Latest figures show the UK is on course to record the highest number of deaths within Europe as a result of COVID-19.
More alarming is that the UK has now reported more deaths for the past four days than France. This is despite the fact the UK only includes deaths in hospitals. While the French who include care homes in their daily death figures.
The Treasure House in Beverley is gearing up to house a commissioned piece of contemporary artwork, following the release of an open art call.
The East Riding Visual Arts Uplift, working with the Humber Museums Partnership, is proud to be unveiling yet another contemporary artistic commission for interested artists to express an interest and submit their proposals.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council has submitted a planning application for its proposals to improve the A164 and the Jock’s Lodge Junction near Beverley.
Subject to planning permission being granted, the council intends to carry out a major overhaul of the road system to replace the junction, which currently links the A164 and the A1079, in order to improve congestion problems on one of the East Riding’s busiest roads.
The new Active East Riding website includes lots of ideas for Under Fives – including babies – and families to do at home during this lockdown period.
Hundreds of refuse collectors, road workers and maintenance staff continue to work flat out across the East Riding to make sure essential services are maintained during the COVID-19 crisis.
More staff employed by the East Riding of Yorkshire Council will be re-mobilised to tackle maintenance work on such areas as parks and open spaces, school grounds, and road repairs.
Rainbow signs thanking NHS staff and carers in the East Riding for their work during the COVID-19 outbreak are to be installed on five roundabouts by East Riding of Yorkshire Council.
Staff from children, young people and family service’s West Early Help team are raising money for charity Bundles of Joy, which will benefit children and families in the area.
A Hull-based construction and maintenance firm have been overwhelmed by the number of applicants for its Apprentice intake for 2020.
KWL had planned an Apprentice Open Day for the 18 April with over 150 candidates registering to attend the event.
East Riding Libraries are offering free access to a new book for primary school children about the coronavirus and its effects and impacts.
Axel Scheffler, the illustrator of The Gruffalo and many other books, has illustrated the digital book, ‘Coronavirus: a book for children’, which is free for anyone to read on-screen or print out, about the coronavirus and the measures taken to control it.
A legal firm soon to open a branch in Beverley is already doing their bit in the community. They have stepped up to support local NHS staff during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Local housebuilders Barratt Developments are donating over 40 defibrillators from sites across the region to help the fight against coronavirus.
Donations are also taking place on a national scale too. The firm aim to donate over 400 defibrillators to the volunteer-led charity, St John’s Ambulance.
Beverley Art Gallery is staying active during the lockdown. Even though it has to remain closed for the time being it has launched several campaigns on social media.