Life continues behind closed doors at Yorkshire Wildlife Park where staff in lockdown are celebrating a double arrival – the birth of two Bactrian camel calves.
The calves were born only days apart in April and are sure to be favourites with visitors when the park reopens.
Residents in Hull are choosing to cycle more as traffic levels remain low across the city.
Many residents are opting to use a greener form of travel as part of their daily exercise routine or to get to and from work as the lockdown eases.
MP Graham Stuart, has held a virtual conference with holiday park operators from across the constituency.
It was held to give them an opportunity for them to share their experiences of how the sector has been affected by the lockdown restrictions imposed as a result of coronavirus.
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The importance of a safe and loving home is more important than ever at the moment, as we all spend more time there.
It emphasises what a wonderful job hundreds of foster carers are doing for children across the East Riding.
History was made on two counts in Beverley on Monday evening when the town’s youngest-ever mayor, Cllr Tom Astell, 24, was elected using virtual meeting technology.
The ancient Mayor making ceremony was conducted online, with councillors electing their new mayor from their own homes due to the lockdown restrictions.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council has issued updates on its tourism facilities in the light of the revised government advice issued earlier this week, and offered advice to those thinking of visiting the area in the coming days.
A local fostering agency is celebrating the resilience and hard work of their foster parents during National Foster Care Fortnight.
The annual campaign which runs from 11-24 May takes the theme of #thisisfostering, aiming to convey a varied and authentic picture of the contributions of the people involved in fostering and how foster care transforms the lives of children and young people.
Beverley hosts so many festivals throughout the year from early music to literature to folk and spoken word. Not least of which is the award-winning biennial Beverley Puppet Festival.
But this year whilst the Minster may still stand, although it stands empty for the first time in almost a millennium, nearly every festival in the calendar has had to cancel or is soon going to face that tough decision as Covid-19 continues to wreak havoc the across the nation.
Work is due to start on a £2.5million road improvement scheme across the East Riding which will help to prevent potholes.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s highways maintenance team will begin work on its annual road surface dressing scheme as part of essential works being carried out during the coronavirus lockdown.
The Bridlington Kite Festival, which was unfortunately cancelled earlier this year due to COVID-19, will become a virtual festival instead in 2020.
The festival, which is an annual celebration of kites, should have taken place at Sewerby Fields, Bridlington on Saturday, 16 and Sunday, 17 May 2020.
As the world celebrates the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe (VE Day) this bank holiday weekend, Barratt Developments Yorkshire East has announced its new Armed Forces Deposit Contribution Scheme to help Armed Forces personnel get on or up the housing ladder.
East Riding Libraries’ popular virtual book club, Face in a Book Club, has added many new titles.
In honour of the VE Day 75th anniversary, it will offer ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ by Heather Morris, the story of how Slovakian Jew Lale Sokolov fell in love with a girl he was tattooing at a concentration camp.
Beverley Town Council had big plans to commemorate this special 75th anniversary of VE Day along with many other organisations, groups and churches within the town. Due to the present pandemic of Coronavirus, all these activities had to be cancelled.
However, this does not stop them from commemorating and celebrating this special occasion in our own homes following the government regulations ‘Stay at Home – Protect the NHS – Save Lives’.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council is distributing grants from its VE Day Community Fund to help commemorate the 75th anniversary of VE Day.
The rural team within the council’s planning department has supported projects proposed by 14 parish councils from the fund and the funding will allow the projects to take place in due course after COVID-19 restrictions are eased.
Businesses in Hull are being urged to seek support as they struggle to deal with the economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic.
Hull City Council’s business support team is appealing to business owners in the city to get in touch to find out what options are available.
ArtWaves Festival is proud to be launching a photographic call out to the region for images that capture people’s experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The festival is seeking to build an online gallery of submitted imagery from those in self-isolation, lockdown, key workers and any other experiences that could be shared to create a snapshot of East Yorkshire life during this time.
Hull’s Robert Murray has so far received more than £1,400 in pledges for NHS charities as he puts his final plans in place for a post-Coronavirus Lockdown charity cycle ride from Edinburgh to Hull.
Restrictions and social distancing measures allowing, Rob, 30, aims to hit £3,000 making the 265-mile two-day ride with two close friends, Spencer Sharkett and Shane Spenceley, who also want to do something to show their appreciation for the country’s front line health workers.