Video: Ripping yarn as MP’s free driveway is dug up again

Part of Seven Corners Lane in Beverley was resurfaced after Graham Stuart’s wife, Anne, asked East Riding Council contractors Galliford Try to put down any spare asphalt from a job in Hengate.

But other residents in the conservation area complained and the company decided to dig it up in a bid to resolve the dispute. The issue continues to raise temperatures among neighbours, however.

Mrs Stuart told the Yorkshire Post: “We have been inundated, my husband and I, with people we’ve seen around Beverley and at the tennis club, people who don’t even live in this lane, who say they are appalled at the behaviour of certain individuals.”

But a resident, who did not want to be named, said: “It’s just got to be lifted; it looks terrible.”

One of the men who dug up the road added: “We won’t make this mistake again.”