Military school to be honoured by local council

East Riding Council has voted to grant The Defence School of Transport at Leconfield the freedom of the East Riding.

The honour will be presented at this Sunday's Armed Forces Day, in Beverley's Saturday Market.

A certificate will be presented to the School's Commandant Col Paul Ash by the chairman of the East Riding Council Coun David Rudd at 11.25am, following a military parade and Drumhead service.

The event – which includes a traditional Gurkha dance troupe, and music from Beverley Brass band and Hull Ladies Choir, amongst others – culminates with a flypast by a Spitfire at 4pm.

The certificate recognises the establishment's "long standing association with the people of East Riding of Yorkshire and in recognition of their devoted service to Queen and Country."

It allows representatives from the Defence School to walk through Beverley "with bayonets fixed, colours flying and bands playing."

The establishment trains servicemen and women to use dozens of different vehicles.

Last year alone a dozen new vehicles were introduced, including the heavily-armoured support vehicle the Wolfhound and the Yamaha Grizzly, an ingenious adaptation of a standard quad bike, which can carry two stretchers and even deploy its own small bridge.