Overnight we had snow showers with up to 1 inch of snow in places. We still have hard packed snow in places and temperatures were down to -7’C overnight. East Riding of Yorkshire Council have been working all night ploughing and salting the main snow clearance network covering all ‘A’ and ‘B’ roads which is around 800km of main roads across the East Riding. All these routes are clear with…
Saturday Market may have been closed though some traders braved the cold to open. East Riding of Yorkshire Council announced that the market would be closed on Saturday due to the bad weather. The market was also closed during the January ‘Big Freeze’ though this time round more stalls were open. Traders said they have faced a tough week paying rents and not being able to work. Stalls open on…
Pictures from the Beverley Westwood taken this morning and an update from East Riding of Yorkshire Council with regard to snow and winter weather. Overnight we had another dumping of snow in a line from Withernsea south of the A1079 westwards. More than a foot of new snow has fallen onto already snow packed roads and with temperatures down to -11’C in rural parts. Eleswhere temperatures are generally -6’C. We…
With the weather causing mayhem for many across the region, police officers and other emergency services have been faced with various challenges; ensuring the safety of the community is paramount and the protecting the vulnerable. On Tuesday evening PC Neil Fraser and PC Tony Harrison, who both are Instant Response officers (IRT) based at Beverley Police Station were coming back from Pocklington in the late evening, they decided to check…
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…
A major campaign to cut drink-driving is running across the Humber region during the festive period. Global research shows that a motorist’s ability to drive safely is impaired from the very first sip of alcohol. Safer Roads Humber – the region’s road safety partnership launched the campaign during national road safety week with the “big experiment” event at the Military of Defence School of Transport on Tuesday, 23 November. Two…
More than 50 runners and walkers joined members of Beverley Athletic Club to celebrate the 12th anniversary of the Beverley Beaver Trail on Sunday. Club Secretary Brian Richardson was very pleased with the turn out on such a cold and wet autumn day and commented: “It was good to see a lot of local people, including walkers, and if the weather had been better I think we would have had…
The sixteenth Beverley Festival of Christmas takes place on Sunday, 12th December and promises to be the biggest and best ever. All the old favourites will be there for the crowds to enjoy including the Sealed Knot performing a street skirmish from the Civil War at North Bar; a classic car rally; a Victorian Christmas market with more than 100 stalls selling a variety of top quality gifts and foods;…
Follow Bertie Beaver and the Beverley Church Lads & Girls Brigade Band to help a local celebrity light the trees at Cross Street, Wednesday Market and then to Angel Square where Beverley Brass Band and the CLB will be playing for Community Carol Singing with School Choirs and the Beverley Male Voice Choir and the Chamber of Trade will be giving out prizes for their Children’s Competition. Beverley Town Council,…
The work of the council’s Building Control service has been recognised in a national awards scheme. The former Corn Exchange in Beverley’s Saturday Market, which was converted by a local businessman into Browns department store, has won the ‘highly commended’ award (best small commercial building category) in this year’s LABC National Building Excellence Awards. LABC is the member organisation representing local authority building control departments. Unlike other industry awards, the…
A log book, recently discovered in the Borough of Beverley archive collection, provides a snapshot of the experiences of a Beaufighter aircraft during the Second World War. ‘Wings For Victory’ took place during 1943 and was a nationwide fundraising event, part of the National Savings Campaign, designed to raise money to buy planes for the war effort. The town of Beverley did its bit, and managed to raise £383,965 to…
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…
A new drop-in advice centre has opened in Beverley. The Choices Centre on Norwood provides advice and support for parents and carers and young people about everything from childcare and teenage pregnancy to careers advice and education courses. The centre can be used as a drop-in or appointments with advisors can be booked in advance. Teams such as the Families Information Service (FISH) and Connexions will be based at the…
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…
A popular scheme which gives shoppers free parking in the run up to Christmas is set to run again this year. For the past two years, those preparing for Christmas by shopping in the East Riding have benefited as East Riding of Yorkshire Council suspended parking charges at its car parks during the three weekends leading up to Christmas. At its meeting on Tuesday, 2 November, the council’s cabinet is…
East Riding residents took less waste to the 10 household waste and recycling sites over the summer months compared with the same months last year. For East Riding of Yorkshire Council, Councillor Symon Fraser, portfolio holder for environment and planning, said: “This is excellent news because the cheapest waste to get rid of is the waste we don’t make. “It saves the council and our taxpayers the cost of dealing…
As part of a project to improve historic town centre lanes in Beverley, Beverley Renaissance will take to the streets along with East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s safe communities team next Tuesday to tackle the current condition of Tindall Lane and remove graffiti. The clean up of the lane, which acts as a thoroughfare from several popular car parks and the train station through to Wednesday Market, will start at…
A local history book fair will be held at the Treasure House, in Champney Road, Beverley on this Saturday, 23 October. Now in its 24th year, the annual local history book fair hosted by East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s archives and local studies service has changed venue this year to the Treasure House. The event will be opened by the council’s Chairman, Councillor David Rudd. The book fair provides a…