East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s annual compost giveaways will be held over two weeks at 10 locations across the area, starting in Beverley on Saturday 12 May.
The council say they will be looking to give away Around 5,000 bags of compost free to residents in the East Riding next month.
East Yorkshire Classic Cycle Race will no longer take place in Beverley after British Cycling confirmed Barnsley have been named as the replacement location.
For the past ten years, Beverley has played host to the popular event that sees the cyclists race around the town centre over the cobbles.
The waste and recycling team at East Riding of Yorkshire Council has been shortlisted for two prestigious National Recycling Awards.
The service, which manages the collection and recycling of residents’ household rubbish, has been nominated for Team of the Year and Campaign of the Year in the public/third sector categories.
Communities along the Tour de Yorkshire route are being to embrace this year’s cycle race and celebrate the East Riding by decorating their towns and villages.
Welcome to Yorkshire and the Yorkshire Post have linked up to run a competition to find the Tour de Yorkshire’s Best Dressed, with four categories being contested.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council has confirmed that the bridge across the Dutch River at Rawcliffe Bridge, which has been closed to traffic since October, will reopen to cars only from Thursday 29 March.
The council has been carrying out work to determine what weight of vehicle can safely cross the bridge, and has decided it is now safe to reopen it to cars only, as measures have been put in place for them to use the bridge in a safe manner.
East Riding of Yorkshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), working in partnership with East Riding of Yorkshire Council is looking at ways to improve the lives of adults with autism in the East Riding.
A new draft Adults with Autism Strategy identifies a number of key areas for development. These include:
Residents and road users are being informed of an extension to an essential road closure which is required to permit work to be carried out on the £22million Anlaby and East Ella Flood Alleviation Scheme.
Contractors working for East Riding of Yorkshire Council are currently working to construct a new culvert underneath Beverley Road, near Anlaby.
Two open days will take place in Bridlington during the Easter holidays to encourage people with a disability or mobility issue to come along and access specially-adapted bicycles.
All Ride is an adapted bike scheme for people over the age of five which has been set up along the North Promenade in Bridlington. The scheme offers people with disabilities or mobility issues, as well as their family and carers, the opportunity to take part in cycling. All Ride is the only adapted cycling scheme of its kind in the East Riding.
Beverley has been awarded a top accolade at the British Coach Tourism Awards 2018, at a ceremony at the National Motorcycle Museum at the NEC Birmingham.
The town secured the coveted title of being the UK’s most coach friendly destination –seeing off stiff competition from Bournemouth, Burnham-on-Sea, Devon, Guildford, Otley and Wells.
An East Riding care home for people with dementia is calling for the public’s support in their bid to create a sensory garden for residents.
The Old School House, in Beverley – an East Riding of Yorkshire Council care home for people with advanced dementia – is one of three local groups shortlisted in the Tesco Bags of Help scheme.
Television viewers will be able to see East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s assistant curator in the libraries, archives and museums service, Alfred Williams, based at Beverley and Goole, in the final of Mastermind on BBC Two.
Viewers will find out how he got on when the final is screened on Friday, 23 March, at 8pm.
Beverley based T C Patisserie were the only business from the Historic Town to be acknowledged at the Remarkable East Yorkshire Tourism.
T C Patisserie scooped the award for ‘Remarkable Cuppa’ to ensure the town won something at the awards night which was attended by 500 people.
The Chair of the Health and Wellbeing Board has visited Hull Royal Infirmary to talk to staff about the winter challenges of the NHS and the way hospital discharges were managed.
Chairman Councillor Jonathan Owen spoke to Ellen Ryabov, the hospital’s chief operating officer, and Scott Rayner, hospital social care team manager at East Riding of Yorkshire Council, about their experiences during the worst time of the year.
Remarkable East Yorkshire Tourism Awards will take place later this week with a number of businesses and events flying the flag for Beverley.
Tourism is a key industry for the region with the latest figures released showing tourism in 2017 was worth £837 million to the local economy, with more visitors coming to area than ever before.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s children’s centres are celebrating after achieving international recognition for a baby-friendly initiative.
Centres across the East Riding, including Anlaby, Beeford, Beverley, Bridlington, Brough, Cottingham, Driffield, Hedon, Hessle, Hornsea, Howden, Goole, Market Weighton, Pocklington and Withernsea.
Graham Stuart, MP for Beverley and Holderness, will launch the Country Land and Business Association’s, (CLA) national campaign against hare-coursing this week.
Graham will be joined by the CLA, a representative from the Police and Crime Commissioner’s Office, the Holderness Farm Watch co-ordinator, the specialist Rural Crime police officer, East Riding of Yorkshire Councillors and local farmers.
Emerging ensembles and a vital connection with the community, are core themes for the recently REYTA shortlisted 2018 Beverley & East Riding Early Music Festival, 24 – 27 May.
Following a successful 30th anniversary in 2017, which included an exhibition at Beverley Minster, the Festival was shortlisted for a Remarkable East Yorkshire Tourism Award (REYTA) in the Remarkable Small Tourism Event category, to be announced later in March.
The men’s and women’s Tour de Yorkshire Trophies will visit Beverley and surrounding villages on Monday, 12 March as part of a week-long tour of Yorkshire ahead of the event, with both races starting in the town on Thursday, 3 May.
Members of the public will be able to catch a glimpse of the silverware in Saturday Market, from 12noon to 1pm, with the trophies also visiting six schools in the morning and five in the afternoon.