Alexandra Wood

5 days ago | yorkshirepost.co.uk | Alexandra Wood

Councillors being asked to tackle "selfish and thoughtless" parents by installing automatic numberplate recognition cameras outside school gates in East Yorkshire. Councillor David Nolan wants East Riding Council to adopt a scheme similar to one already running in North East Lincolnshire where cameras have been installed outside 12 schools. Parents, who ignore “no stopping” road markings and drive up to the gates to drop off or collect their children, would be automatically fined.

1 week ago | yorkshirepost.co.uk | Alexandra Wood

Health Secretary Wes Streeting has pledged he will “do everything in his power” to ensure other families don't endure "heartbreak caused by failures in NHS maternity care that should never have happened”. It came as parents affected by inadequate maternity care at Leeds Teaching Hospitals say only an independent inquiry will get to the bottom of failings at the trust, after healthcare regulators finally acted.

1 week ago | yorkshirepost.co.uk | Alexandra Wood

Yorkshire vet Peter Wright has called for volunteer drivers to help keep up with demand for a free bus service in rural North Yorkshire. The nine-seater pink minibus bought by local firm Heck Food has no set timetable, with residents able to make their own travel bookings. Since launching last October the bus has taken over 200 people to local markets, social events, school trips and on scenic drives.

1 week ago | msn.com | Alexandra Wood

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1 week ago | yorkshirepost.co.uk | Alexandra Wood

He was the Regency era’s fattest man – a national celebrity who everybody wanted to see. Edward Coltman, who was vicar of Beverley Minster, used a strengthened velocipede, a walking bicycle, to get around and needed a team of vergers to propel his huge body up into the pulpit when it was his turn to give a sermon.