Roy Woodcock

THE BY-ELECTION to fill the Beverley Rural Ward seat on East Riding Council will be a three-way affair between the Conservatives, Liberal Democrats and Labour. The vacancy arose following the death of sitting councillor Pauline Greenwood, who topped the poll for the Conservatives at the last election. The poll will take place on Thursday August 25 when the candidates will be: Peter Stevens (Conservative), Diana Stewart (Liberal Democrats) and Claire Read more

PLANS for a drive-through coffee shop on land off Killingwoldgraves Lane, near Bishop Burton, look set to be approved by planning councillors provided a footpath link is also constructed. Lovel Capital Projects Ltd has applied for planning permission for the Tekno Developments site, where outline planning permission already exists for a petrol filling station and shop and a number of employment units. Members of East Riding Council’s eastern area planning Read more

A LACK of evidence allowing Humberside Police to identify suspects is partly to blame for almost one in three crimes going unsolved in a year, a senior officer has said. It comes as crime figures for Humberside Police showed the Force closed around 29,142 cases from April 2021 to last March without identifying a suspect.  The figure is almost one third of the 90,413 offences recorded across Humberside in that Read more

EAST RIDING Council has joined with healthcare charity Nuffield Health to become the first local authority in the country to offer help to people suffering the effects of Long Covid. The free-to-access 12-week programme blends physical therapy and mental health support. Participants will work with a fitness instructor for advice and on a recovery plan, consisting of a six-week programme of at-home exercises, before attending an East Riding Health and Read more

THE FAMILY of the woman who died at a property on Samman Road in Beverley have named her as Becci Rees-Hughes. Becci’s family have asked for privacy at this time as they try to come to terms with their loved one’s death. Becci Rees-Hughes Senior Investigating Officer, Detective Chief Inspector Alan Curtis said: “Our thoughts are with Becci’s family at this very difficult time. “Whilst our investigations are continuing into Becci’s Read more

EMERGENCY aid worth more than £5 million has been sent to Ukraine from Beverley since Russia invaded the country in February. The humanitarian effort is the work of local charity Jacob’s Well, who continue to keep up their efforts at the rate of two truck-loads of aid each week, with help going to more than 100 hospitals and clinics. One of the Aid For Ukraine trucks being loaded at the Read more

A MURDER investigation is underway following the discovery of a woman’s body at a property in Beverley yesterday in the early hours (Monday 25 July), that is believed to be connected to an investigation into a road traffic collision near Hornsea later the same morning. Senior Investigating Officer, Detective Chief Inspector Alan Curtis said: “Officers discovered the woman’s body at a house on Samman Road in Beverley after receiving reports Read more

BEVERLEY is to benefit from an injection of £91,000 from the Home Office Safer Streets Fund to continue an initiative aimed at combatting anti-social behaviour and other issues in the Flemingate and Grovehill areas of the town. Humberside Police and Crime Commissioner Jonathan Evison said he’d worked with East Riding Council to secure the funding. A council spokesperson told Beverley FM the cash “will support the Beverley Youth Partnership to Read more

HUMBERSIDE Chief Fire Officer Chris Blackwell has spoken of the impact of climate change; his fears of more extreme heatwaves to come and concerns that emergency services across the country may be under-resourced to face the increasing demands facing them. He was speaking after last week’s extreme conditions led to the Humberside Force dealing with three-and-a-half times more incidents than normal. “Our Control Room staff received an unprecedented number of Read more