Around 5,000 bags of compost are to be given away free to residents in the East Riding next month.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s annual compost giveaways will be held at nine sites across the area including Beverley.
An award-winning cycle training scheme for refugees in the East Riding has got back on the road for 2019.
Thirty refugees from Syria who have settled in the East Riding to escape the civil war in their country are being given training in cycling skills and road safety to help them navigate the roads in their new country.
Hull & East Riding Green Party have revealed their candidates for the upcoming local elections in the East Riding of Yorkshire and Hull.
Beverley residents will have a chance to vote for the Green Party in two wards. They have a candidate standing in St Mary’s Ward and also Beverley Rural.
Skidby Windmill will be celebrating Easter by hosting a competition for families and children.
Starting this Saturday the Easter Competition at Skidby Windmill will seventeen days and with a prize for awarded to the winner.
The highly successful Bridlington Seafood Festival will make a welcome return to the town’s seafront on the weekend of 15-16 June 2019.
The seafood festival is led by the Holderness Coast Fisheries Local Action Group (FLAG) with funding from the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund and East Riding of Yorkshire Council.
ERYC have rejected calls for a crossing to be installed in Beverley saying the road is not busy enough.
Concerns were raised at the number of people needing to cross Woodhall Way at the junction with St Leonard’s Road.
Local elections are just weeks away giving residents in the East Riding a chance to influence and shape their futures.
In there will be 67 seats up for grabs in the County Elections while there will be 168 Parish Council seats contested.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council launched a year-long cancer awareness project in the East Riding recently.
The idea is to help support residents through what could be one of the toughest times in their lives. This month, the focus is on working with or after cancer.
Beverley Cherry Tree Centre was the only group from the town to benefit from a Positive Activities Grant.
The centre located on the Swinemoor Estate were successful in their application. As a result, they were awarded £1,847.95 by East Riding of Yorkshire Council.
Trading standards officers are investigating a number of garages across the East Riding after they were found to be selling part-worn tyres that were dangerous to the public.
As part of a Yorkshire and Humber-wide survey, trading standards officers from East Riding of Yorkshire Council visited four garages selling part-worn.
A campaign encouraging drivers in the East Riding not to block pedestrian crossings when they park has now come to an end.
For the past month, civil enforcement officers from East Riding of Yorkshire Council have given out warning notices – instead of fixed penalty notices – to motorists parked across dropped kerbs.
Safer Sleep Week is an annual campaign run by the Lullaby Trust to raise awareness of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and the safer sleep advice that reduces the risk of it occurring. Sadly, around five babies a week in the UK die from SIDS.
This year, the focus of Safer Sleep Week is on co-sleeping. It is estimated that by the age of three months half of all babies born in England and Wales will have slept in an adult bed with one or both parents, whether intended or not.
Traffic signals set to be installed at North Bar will adopt similar technology to that used by the controversial Grovehill junction.
Dubbed the ‘magic roundabout’ the junction shot to fame on a global stage with its 42 sets of lights. It has also earned a reputation for creating delays with its poor traffic flow.
Parents in the East Riding are being urged to support a new nappy campaign. The new campaign has been by the council to help prevent costly contamination in recycling bins.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s waste recycling team has started the scheme as they want to encourage parents to put all their babies’ waste in their green bins.
More than nine out of ten Year 6 children in the East Riding have been awarded places for the school named by parents as their first choice in the 2019/20 secondary school admissions round.
Letters to parents, informing them of the outcome of their applications for secondary school places in September 2019, are being sent out today, Friday 1st March. This is known as ‘National Offer Day’ and is the date that all local authorities in England have to send the letters out to parents.
Groups in the East Riding will be hosting events over the coming days as part of Fairtrade Fortnight.
An annual event, Fairtrade Fortnight runs until the 10 March. Locally here in the East Yorkshire events will happen in Cherry Burton and also Hornsea.
North Bar Without will undergo a major project next month that will see 12 traffic lights replaced.
The work which is due to start on 11 March will see old style lights replaced with energy efficient lights. Furthermore, new traffic signals will also use enhanced modern technology.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council is asking residents to be more aware of the signs of cancer. Their appeal comes following the launch of their Cancer Awareness Project.
The council are hoping more people will spot the signs which will help increase survival rates. Figures show that if detected early people 81pc chance of survival. While if found later this figure drops dramatically to just 26pc.