East Riding of Yorkshire Council

Some of the council’s winter team launching the newly named gritters. East Riding Council.

New names revealed for council gritters from Elvis Spreadley to Meltem John

Bubwith Bridge spans the River Derwent

Light at the end of tunnel for Yorkshire village 'cut off' by repairs to bridge

Beal Homes has secured full planning permission to complete the East Yorkshire-based housebuilder’s largest-ever development, The Greenways in Goole. (Photo supplied by Beal Homes)

Beal Homes secures permission in Goole for its largest development

The respectfully orchestrated removal of a Fin Whale carcass on the South Shore Beach Bridlington, East Yorkshire, after it became beached, and unfortunately died earlier this week.

Watch moment contractors remove 25-tonne fin whale from Yorkshire beach

Burnby Hall is in the background.

Demand for urgent talks on future of historic hall in Yorkshire

Hedge Laying is a skill that should be preserved. PIC: James Hardisty.

Hedge laying skills need to be retained otherwise they will die out - YP Letters

Bridlington beach chalets

Here's when you can start booking chalets lets in Bridlington for this spring

Road closure sign. (Pic credit: Andrew Bellis)

What roads will be closed during the Hornsea Carnival and at what times?

PRITC chairman Andy Bowden with volunteer coordinator Louise Partridge.

New volunteer coordinator role created in Pocklington to support area’s organisa...

The lifestyle of living in North Yorkshire should attract the best candidates, one councillor said

Chief executive of new North Yorkshire council will get paid almost £200,000

The puffin sculptures which are now being painted up, have arrived in Hull and will be distributed to create a new animal trail throughout East Yorkshire.
Rachel and James Murray with a fibre glass puffin outside the Boathouse offices in Hull.

A set of plastic puffins have put office work renovations on hold in Hull

Stewart Bowling Club members Jean Allott, June Hatton and Nikki Meadows show their delight over the award.

Three Pocklington-based sports clubs complete key projects thanks to Commuted Su...

The Paul Roggeman European Open Beach Championship took place for the first time since March 2020

Anglers back on East Yorkshire beaches for the first Paul Roggeman Championship

East Riding of Yorkshire Council has put out the tender for the contract

£120,000 of taxpayers money to be spent on chauffeurs for Yorkshire councillors

The proposed artificial football pitch will be situated at The Market Weighton School site.

Artificial pitch plan for Market Weighton is submitted to East Riding of Yorkshi...

South Cave Parish Council members and South Cave CE Primary School children are pictured near the new equipment.

Commuted Sums award leads to major improvements at King George V Playing Fields ...

The Market Weighton FEASTival will take place on Saturday, February 12 and Sunday, February 13. Photo submitted

Market Weighton set to host an East Riding FEASTival next month

Organisers of the popular Flamborough Fire Festival said they have made the difficult decision to call the event off. Photo: James Hardisty

Popular Flamborough Fire Festival cancelled due to concerns over spread of Omicr...

The war memorial has now been repaired after residents used rope to secure a bronze plaque on the momument.

War memorial repaired after conscientious residents secure loose nameplate with ...

Wolds Weighton councillor Mike Stathers with Victoria Aitken, ERYC Portfolio Holder for Childrens’ Services.

Controversy over parking complaints outside school in Wolds town

East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s cabinet heard social care staffing was in crisis due to low pay, coronavirus and Brexit while demand from people with more complex needs is forecast to rise.

Local social care services face a perfect storm, East Riding of Yorkshire Counci...
Senior East Riding councillors have been warned local social care services face a perfect storm of staff leaving, care homes closing and rising demand which will worsen without urgent action.

East Riding of Yorkshire’s public health director Andy Kingdom.

Council health chief’s ‘Little Donkey’ effect warning as primary school pupils d...

The plot, at Bridlington Cemetery on Sewerby Road which had been visited by the family for more than 20 years, was dug up by mistake and then used to inter another body on Friday.

Family’s shock after body is interred in their parents’ burial plot

Councillor Paul Nickerson, a Conservative who sits on East Riding of Yorkshire Council, has apologised and deleted the tweet

Councillor suspended over 'offensive' tweet posted after Liverpool bomb attack

Groups and individuals in Pocklington and Market Weighton can apply for an Active Towns Community Grant.

Community organisations in Pocklington and Market Weighton invited to apply for ...

The proposed care home would be surrounded by landscaping and in the form of two wings arranged around the central communal hub. Image courtesy of Jackson Design Associates

Proposal for new care home in Bridlington submitted to council planning departme...

The new digital trail around Northallerton has been developed over the past four months by Elena Leyshon, a graduate trainee archivist who has been working at the County Record Office for the past two years. (Picture: North Yorkshire County Council)

Northallerton's hidden heritage to be showcased to a new audience with a history...

Is enough being done to protect trees in the region? One reader suggests not.

Trees need greater protection from local councils like East Riding – Yorkshire P...

More than half of those who responded to East Riding of Yorkshire Council were strongly against the proposals to pedestrianise Market Place and High Bridge in Howden Town centre.

Plan to ban cars from Yorkshire town centre scrapped in face of local opposition

Skidby Windmill is a Grade II listed windmill at Skidby near Beverley, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. Picture: Gary Longbottom

Why Skidby Mill is missing its famous giant sails - for now

An aerial photo of last year's flooding at Fishlake.

Trust ebbs away from Environment Agency over flood prevention – Yorkshire Post L...

Bridlington seafront

Motorists warned not to be caught out at beachside parking ticket hotspots
With millions of Brits planning to holiday closer to home this bank holiday weekend, motorists have been warned to beware of parking fines that could spoil a great weekend away.

Electronic-powered vehicles

Electric-powered vehicles join the East Riding Council’s fleet

Most of the Travellers Rest was knocked down Picture: Long Riston Travellers Rest Action Group

Developer faces court over demolition of 200-year-old Yorkshire pub

Magnetometer data showed up a number of archaeological anomalies in the field
Image: Archaeological Services WYAS

Ancient remains found in fields in East Yorkshire earmarked for new solar farm

Flooding in Snaith. Picture: Tony Johnson

Fresh investigation into severe flooding

Around 100 homes in Snaith and East Cowick were inundated in March Picture: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

Flood victims in Yorkshire face lockdown away from their homes

Waleed Bashir with his children Waghe 10 (left) and Wjhen Bashir with their new bicycles at R-evoution in Cottingham near Hull part of a new scheme for refugees to get bicycles..

Syrian refugee children’s faces ‘light up’ as they join cycling scheme

Brexit negotiations have entered a crucial phase, with November thought to be the deadline for reaching a deal.

Wakefield is second Yorkshire council to deliver Brexit warning over potential i...

David Davis quit as Brexit Secretary in July in protest at Prime Minister Theresa May's Chequers plan for leaving the EU.

David Davis's Tory-run council in stark Brexit warning over staff shortages if E...

Stephen Parnaby, Conservative leader of East Riding District Council.
19 December 2017. Picture Bruce Rollinson

Stephen Parnaby interview: 13 elections wins and counting in a changing East Rid...

44 ton lorry blocking road in East Yorkshire village

The cheeky note in the book

Book returned to Yorkshire library 36 years overdue - with cheeky note inside

The binmen have been praised

Three heroic Yorkshire binmen who stopped gunpoint carjacker praised for bravery

Controversial plans for visitor centre at Spurn are passed

Flooding on the River Hull at Tickton.

Comment: Hull strategy shows strategic approach can beat floods

Council leaders have said that GPs should start prescribing exercise to help tackle the nation's obesity crisis.

Yorkshire GPs get hotline to book obese patients into a gym

Police are not treating the Oxford Street incident as terror related.

Oxford Street incident not terror related

Leah Swain, chief officer at Rural Action Yorkshire

Council cuts mean affluent rural communities '˜risk falling into deprivation'

Tour de Yorkshire riders outside Beverley Minster at last year's event

Letter: Make Beverley shine today for Tour de Yorkshire

Stewart Calligan with a young ray

Sea fishing: Blasted by sand but game for the catch

Andrzei Jonski, facing a £3,000 legal bill for having scruffy gardens. Pictured is the neighbours view of his back garden with DIY shed, plastic sheeting and building materials which are destroying the residential amenity of his five neighbours from their homes which overlook his house. See story Hull News and Pictures.

Man wins legal battle over garden dispute

File pic of a burst water main.

Schools closed and 2,000 homes without water since Monday after burst in Pocklin...

European champion John Byrne

Scramble to the coast for sea battle

John Dennis, town mayor of Hedon near Hull, before the referendum on the boundaries of Hull city. Picture by Tony Johnson

Voters reject a revised boundary with Hull

Speed limits on rural roads 'should be cut'

Call to reduce rural road speeds

Claire Haigh

‘Transport poverty’ warning over rural bus cuts

Heavy rain and flash flooding made it hard going for this intrepid traveller in Goole in 2011

Andrew Percy: Water firms must invest to protect consumers

The Lowther Hotel, Goole. Picture: Ross Parry Agency

Video: Road sweeper crashes into hotel and causes £10,000 damage

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