Monthly Archives: July 2010

Flying the flag for Yorkshire Day

Posted on July 31, 2010 by | Leave a comment

THE SPIRIT OF Yorkshire is being felt across the the town with only one day left until Yorkshire Day in Hedon.

These local buildings are ‘flying’ the Yorkshire Flag with pride!

View Flag Flying

The Yorkshire Flag was designed in the 1960s. However, the flying of the Yorkshire Flag has only been legally permissible since June 2008. Prior to that, you might have faced prosecution for breaking planning permission and ‘advertising’ without permission!

The village of Sproxton near Helmsley was the location of a ‘battle’ to fly the Yorkshire Flag in 2003. Ryedale district council attempted to prosecute a local farmer for flying the unregistered flag without permission. They retreated on the prosecution after dozens of villagers ordered flags and flew them in protest!

The traditional Lancashire flag was never recognised as an official flag. The image of a red rose on a white background had already been registered by the town of Montrose in Scotland! Therefore Lancashire’s official flag is now registered as a red rose on a gold field.

→ Leave a comment

Posted in Events, Hedon, History

Tagged , , , , , ,

Barbecue and Race Afternoon for Church Funds

Posted on July 31, 2010 by | Leave a comment

→ Leave a comment

Posted in Events, Hedon

Tagged , , , , ,

East Riding Council Chairman to attend Yorkshire Day in Hedon

Posted on July 30, 2010 by | 1 Comment

THE CHAIRMAN of the East Riding Council will be attending Yorkshire Day 2010 in the town next Sunday as a guest of the Hedon Town Mayor and Council.

Cllr David Rudd

Council Chairman David Rudd will be returning to Hedon, the town he grew up in, in order to take part in the civic parade along with other civic dignataries from around Yorkshire.

The Chairman will be resplendent in his official ‘mayoral’ type robes and civic chain of office. The 18-carat gold chain has approximately 200 coloured stones mainly collected from Hornsea beach and was designed by Miss Jacquline Stiegar over three months in 1977.

Since its creation in 1996, East Riding of Yorkshire Council took the decision not to call their Civic Head a Mayor but decided upon the title of Chairman. It is the Chairman’s duty to represent and promote East Riding of Yorkshire Council at all Civic and Ceremonial occasions as well as chair the Council Meetings which are held every two months.

Councillor David Rudd was elected in May 2010 and serves for a year. If you can’t wait until Sunday and want to see the Chairman in his official regalia and wearing the chain of office, then have a look over at the Beverley website HU17.Net.

Following an official Reception at breakfast time, the Civic Parade will kick off the public events at the Market Place, Hedon at 10.15am on Yorkshire Day Sunday 1st August.

→ 1 Comment

Posted in East Yorkshire UK, Events, Hedon, History, Holderness

Tagged , , , , , , , , ,

Patient power works to improve services!

Posted on July 30, 2010 by | Leave a comment

THE HEDON BLOG has sought to encourage local people to become actively involved in the East Riding of Yorkshire Local Involvement Network (see ERYLINk website).

The ERYLINk aims to improve health and social care by giving local people a stronger voice to influence how services operate.

The affect that a LINk can have has been demonstrated in Hull. The Hull LINk network has published a report on Hospital Transport based upon speaking to patients, carers and hospital visitors. The report has highlighted the overall lack of car parking spaces at Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital – and the problems and distress that result from this.

The Hull LINK made some practical suggestions to improve things for hospital visitors; it recommended that the Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust:

  • Stagger visiting times to reduce parking pressures at peak times.
  • Introduce short term parking areas to free  up more space and a ‘pay as you leave’ system to save patients money.
  • Improve the provision of disabled parking bays.

In response, see the Yorkshire Post, the NHS Trust has said that it hopes to create an extra 200 car parking spaces at Castle Hill Hospital over the next few months.

The LINk model has been recognised as successful by the Government who have proposed that they become part of a new independent ‘patient champion’ organisation called HealthWatch to be established in 2012.

→ Leave a comment

Posted in East Yorkshire UK, Hedon, Holderness, Hull

Tagged , , , , , , , , , , ,

HOTI offer to help resolve Waste Incinerator issue

Posted on July 29, 2010 by | Leave a comment

ANTI-INCINERATOR community group leaders, HOTI (Hull and Holderness Opposes the Incinerator), have offered to take part in local negotiations in efforts to “arbitrate” and help resolve the “stalemate” over plans to construct a waste-burning incinerator at Saltend.

The Joint Waste Authority (JWA – acting on behalf of the East Riding and Hull City Councils) and the Waste Recycling Group (WRG) are currently locked in ongoing discussions and legal proceeedings over the contract to finance and build the waste incinerator.

But now, according to local media reports in the Holderness Gazette and the Hull Mail, HOTI Chairman Peter Turner has written to both the JWA and WRG and offered the group’s help to sort matters out.

Peter Turner’s letter apparently refers to the Waste Management Quick Guide published by the Audit Commission in 2007. This document published for the Commission’s staff and inspectors working with local councils, suggests that incineration is better than landfill but not as good a recycling or composting, and that:

“Burning mixed waste is no longer really sensible practice. For a long time, councils with incinerators have had poor recycling rates… The importance is not to embark on arrangement that will prevent another taking place. Incineration has typically been a culprit in this – the contractor requires, say, 100,000 tonnes of waste a year to operate the incinerator. This is the big difference between incinerators and other treatments.” Waste Management Quick Guide.

The Government has since ordered the repeal of this internal guidance document, but it does reveal the serious doubts that exist over incineration.

At a time when the Government is emphasising its “Big Society”, which is all about encouraging citizens to get involved in achieving change in their local area, then perhaps the JWA and WRG could do no wrong by involving HOTI in new partnership negotiations to get this issue finally resolved!

Links: HOTI News Website

→ Leave a comment

Posted in East Yorkshire UK, Hedon, Holderness, Hull

Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Paull Scarecrow Festival

Posted on July 29, 2010 by | Leave a comment

CROWS WILL be keeping away from Paull on Bank Holiday Monday 30th August 2010…

…for the East Yorkshire village near Hedon will be holding its Scarecrow Festival on that date.

A map of the Scarecrows in the village will be available to buy (50p) on the day of the festival.

→ Leave a comment

Posted in East Yorkshire UK, Events, Holderness

Tagged , , , , ,

MO4′S gig at Queens

Posted on July 29, 2010 by | Leave a comment

THE MO4′S Pop, Soul, Funk & Rock Cover Band return to the Queens Head on Bank Holiday Sunday night, 29th August 2010.

If you have a community or entertainment event to publicise then please complete the simple online form and we will do our best to promote this on the Hedon Blog.

→ Leave a comment

Posted in Events, Hedon

Tagged , , , , ,

Community activists urged to join fight against crime

Posted on July 28, 2010 by | 1 Comment

THE HOME OFFICE is seeking views on the government’s vision for policing.

The consultation document Policing in the 21st Century: Reconnecting police and the people signals “the most radical change to policing in 50 years” according to Theresa May, the Home Secretary.

The proposals in the document include:

  • Abolition of Police Authorities and introducing directly elected Police and Crime Commissioners;
  • freeing up officers’ time to get on with their jobs, out and about in local communities and not tied up in paperwork or meetings;
  • a single national police non-emergency number for reporting crime – likely to be “101″.

The main thrust of the document is a call for wider community involvement in policing; an approach to cutting crime that makes sure everyone plays their full part in a “Big Society”.

Police and Crime Commissioners will be expected to become powerful representatives of the public that can increase engagement and accountability – with real public participation in policing and not just passive consent. They will be responsible for ensuring that local public ‘beat meetings’ will be held regularly to hold police to account at a local level.

These beat meetings would take place at times and in places that are widely advertised; and might be held in supermarkets, old people’s homes and schools – or online, via virtual beat meetings, Facebook or Twitter.” from consultation document.”

Active citizens will be encouraged to volunteer with the police to help fight and prevent crime in communities.

This all sounds very promising and encouraging, but a lot of this engagement work is already being attempted locally:

It could be argued that the above do not engage with the public in sufficient numbers to be effective – they suffer from “passive consent” rather than active participation. The Community Forum in South West Holderness in particular seems dogged by low public participation.

The consultation document specifically asks: What more can the Government do to support the public to take a more active role in keeping neighbourhoods safe and encourage more people to volunteer?

As a starter the Hedon Blog has already suggested that online meetings might be successful in getting more people inolved.

So…. over to you! What are your thoughts on this?

Note: The Home Office consultation ends on Monday 20th September 2010.

→ 1 Comment

Posted in Debate, East Yorkshire UK, Hedon, Holderness

Tagged , , , , , , , , , , ,