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The popular butcher shop in Wednesday Market, Ye Olde Pork Shoppe, is due to close later this month. Its bright red frontage and period signage has been a landmark in the Beverley town centre for over half a century. Many residents will have shopped there and remember the lengthy queues outside the shop on Christmas Eve as customers waited to collect their turkeys. A letter from the shop's team has Read more

Weel Road, which leads to the Household Waste Recycling Site, is to be resurfaced between its junction with Main Street, Tickton, to the vehicle access to Holland Farm, which is north of the metal bridge leading to Grovehill Road, Beverley. East Riding Council is spending £140,000 to upgrade the narrow road and work is due to start on Monday 11 March and take two weeks to complete, with work carried Read more

There are 2.4 million adults in England alone – over 7% of the working age population – who can barely read or cannot read at all. Read Easy Hull and District works to provide free, one-to-one coaching to adults who want to learn to read via its trained volunteer Reading Coaches - but it desperately needs more. The group affiliated to the national charity Read Easy UK in August 2021, and began Read more

East Riding of Yorkshire Council today (February 8) approved its annual budget which leaders said would put "residents first and at its heart." A statement from the council's Conservative Group said that at a time when many councils were failing to produce a balanced budget and were declaring section 114 notices (cutting all but essential services), East Riding Council was not cutting services and was investing: 80k in a 20mph Read more