Roy Woodcock

CAMPAIGNERS have lost their battle to save the distinctive and historic wooden canopy over the footbridge at Beverley railway station. East Riding planning councillors voted to give Network Rail permission to go-ahead with strengthening work on the bridge and to remove the canopy, said to be “structurally failing”.  Beverley Town Council, Beverley Civic Society, local residents, national amenity societies and others all objected to Network Rail’s plans, calling for them Read more

BEVERLEY MP Graham Stuart has announced he’s backing Grant Shapps in his bid to succeed Boris Johnson as Prime Minister and Conservative Party leader. Mr Shapps, the current Transport Secretary, is one of currently 11 Ministers and MPs to declare they are running for the top job, with still more possibly adding their names to the list. Mr Stuart, who last week was appointed as Minister for Europe at the Read more

BEVERLEY-based East Yorkshire Food Bank is seeing an increase in demand for help as the cost of living crisis begins to bite and says it’s struggling to meet demand. In the past month it says they’ve given out twice as much food as it received in donations. Current demands for donations are milk (UHT or powdered), long-life fruit juices, soup, pasta sauces, tinned sponge puddings, tinned tomatoes and vegetables, cereals, Read more

HEALTH bosses in the East Riding expect the autumn booster vaccination programme to be extended to cope with rising Covid cases. Infection rates have been increasing due to new Omicron variants. Zoe Stevens, Public Health Nurse Consultant at East Riding Council, said: "I think it would be a good idea. We're still awaiting guidance as to whether or not that decision has been made, but I think it's likely that Read more

BEVERLEY MP Graham Stuart has been appointed to a position in Government at the Foreign Office by Boris Johnson in the wake of the Prime Minister’s decision to resign and his subsequent move to fill Cabinet and Ministerial vacancies to cover the period between now and when his successor takes office.  In an announcement late yesterday, Mr Stuart (pictured) was appointed Minister of State at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Read more

ON A DAY of political turmoil and resignations nationally, a bombshell resignation rocked the ruling Conservative Party on East Riding Council. In a statement published by the former deputy council leader, Cllr Mike Stathers announced he was quitting the Party, saying: “Treachery and betrayal that is rife at Westminster is also prevalent at East Riding Council.” Cllr Mike Stathers Cllr Stathers, who represents Wolds Weighton Ward, said continual in-fighting within Read more

A MAN has been arrested on suspicion of attempted robbery following an incident in Beverley in the early hours of Monday morning. In a statement issued to Beverley FM, police said it was reported that a woman was walking on Samman Road when she was approached by a man who struck up a conversation with her. The man is then believed to have tried to take the woman’s bag. The Read more

A NEW sub-strain of the coronavirus Omicron variant is driving a spike in cases in Hull and the East Riding, the latest figures indicate. A total of 644 new cases were recorded in the East Riding in the seven days up to Sunday, June 26, up by 21.1 per cent. The infection rate was 187.6 cases per 100,000 people. In Hull in the same period there were 315 new cases, Read more

THE RISE in the cost of living is having a significant impact on local people, East Riding councillors were told, with the number of households in relative poverty rising by 14 per cent, based on the latest figures available. Council leader Cllr Jonathan Owen told a full meeting of the authority that council officers were trying to get support to the most vulnerable, including with financial advice and aid.  Councillors Read more