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The East Riding of Yorkshire, or simply East Riding or East Yorkshire, is an area in Northern England and can refer either to the administrative county (Local Government Area) of the East Riding of Yorkshire which is a unitary authority, to the ceremonial county (Lieutenancy) of the East Riding of Yorkshire or to the easternmost of the three subdivisions (ridings) of the traditional county of Yorkshire.
Motto: Tradition and progress
Sovereign state
Constituent country
Established by
Local Government Commission for England
Ceremonial county
High Sheriff
Mrs Susan Stephenson [1] (2019–20)
2,479 km2 (957 sq mi)
• Ranked
23rd of 48
Population (mid-2018 est.)
37th of 48
242/km2 (630/sq mi)
Figures for East Riding of Yorkshire UA:[2]
93.0% White, British
2.0% White, other
1.9% S. Asian
0.9% Mixed
0.9% White, Irish
0.6% Black
Two unitary authorities
http://www.eastriding.gov.uk/
Hull City Council
http://www.hullcc.gov.uk
Admin HQ
GB-ERY
ONS code
00FB
GSS code
UKE11/12
Districts of East Riding of Yorkshire
East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary)
City of Kingston upon Hull (Unitary)
David Davis (C)
Emma Hardy (L)
Diana Johnson (L)
Greg Knight (C)
Andrew Percy (C)
Graham Stuart (C)
Karl Turner (L)
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No two of these areas share the same geographical boundaries despite sharing the same name. The traditional East Riding of Yorkshire includes parts of ceremonial North Yorkshire such as Filey but not Goole, whereas both the administrative and ceremonial East Riding of Yorkshire include Goole but not those parts of North Yorkshire. Both the traditional and ceremonial East Riding include Kingston upon Hull, but the administrative East Riding does not as Kingston upon Hull is in its own unitary authority. The traditional East Riding covers a larger area than both the ceremonial and administrative East Riding.
The East Riding, North Riding and West Riding were treated as three separate counties for many purposes, such as having separate quarter sessions. In 1889 under the Local Government Act 1888, administrative counties with a county council were created on the historic boundaries. In 1974 both the Local Government Area and the Lieutenancy of the East Riding of Yorkshire were abolished under the Local Government Act 1972, being succeeded in most of the riding by the newly created Humberside which included parts of the West Riding and parts of Lincolnshire. The modern Local Government Area and the ceremonial East Riding of Yorkshire were formed in 1996 from the northern part of Humberside upon its abolition. At the 2011 Census, the population was 334,179.[3]
The landscape consists of a crescent of low chalk hills, the Yorkshire Wolds, surrounded by the low-lying fertile plains of Holderness and the Vale of York. The Humber Estuary and North Sea mark its southern and eastern limits. Archaeological investigations have revealed artefacts and structures from all historical periods since the last ice age. There are few large settlements and no industrial centres. The area is administered from the ancient market and ecclesiastical town of Beverley. Christianity is the religion with the largest following in the area and there is a higher than average percentage of retired people.
The economy is mainly based on agriculture and tourism, contributing to the rural and seaside character of the Riding with its historic buildings, nature reserves and the Yorkshire Wolds Way long-distance footpath. The open and maritime aspects and lack of major urban development have also led to the relatively high levels of energy generation from renewable sources.
Major sporting and entertainment venues are concentrated in Kingston upon Hull, while the seaside and market towns support semi-professional and amateur sports clubs and provide seasonal entertainment for visitors. Bishop Burton is the site of an agricultural college, and Hull provides the region's only university. On the southern border, close to Hull, the Humber Bridge spans the Humber Estuary to enable the A15 to link Hessle with Barton-upon-Humber in North Lincolnshire.
2.2 Geology
2.3 Landscape
3.1 Administrative history
3.2 Current administration
3.3 Result of the 2019 election
3.4 Westminster parliamentary
3.5 European parliamentary
5 Towns and villages
6 Places of interest
6.1 Religious sites
8.1 Renewable energy
10 Public services
11 Sport and leisure
When the last glacial period ended, the hunter gatherers of the Palaeolithic period followed the animal herds across the land between continental Europe and Britain. Then, as conditions continued to improve and vegetation became more able to support a greater diversity of animals, the annual range of seasonal movement by Mesolithic communities decreased, and people became more fixed to particular localities. Until about 6,000 BC, Mesolithic people appear to have exploited their environment as they found it. As communities came to rely on a smaller territorial range and as population levels increased, attempts began to be made to modify or control the natural world. In the Great Wold Valley, pollen samples of Mesolithic date indicate that the forest cover in the area was being disturbed and altered by man, and that open grasslands were being created.[4] The Yorkshire Wolds became a major focus for human settlement during the Neolithic period as they had a wide range of natural resources. The oldest monuments found on the Wolds are the Neolithic long barrows and round barrows. Two earthen long barrows in the region are found at Fordon, on Willerby Wold, and at Kilham, both of which have radiocarbon dates of around 3700 BC.[5]
From around 2000 to 800 BC, the people of the Bronze Age built the 1,400 Bronze Age round barrows that are known to exist on the Yorkshire Wolds. These are found both in isolation and grouped together to form cemeteries. Many of these sites can still be seen as prominent features in the present-day landscape. By the later Bronze Age, an open, cleared, landscape predominated on the Wolds. It was used for grazing and also for arable cultivation. The wetlands on either side of the Wolds in the River Hull valley, Holderness and the Vale of York were also being used for animal rearing at this time.[6] In the Iron Age there were further cultural changes in the area. There emerged a distinctive local tradition known as the Arras Culture, named after a site at Arras, near Market Weighton. There are similarities between the chariot burials of the Arras Culture and groups of La Tene burials in northern Europe, where the burial of carts was also practised. The area became the kingdom of the tribe known as the Parisi.[7]
After invading Britain in AD 43, the Romans crossed the Humber Estuary in AD 71 to invade the Northumbrian territory of the Parisi tribe. From their bridgehead at Petuaria they travelled northwards and built roads along the Wolds to Derventio, present day Malton, and then westwards to the River Ouse where they built the fort of Eboracum.[8] There is evidence of extensive use of the light soils of the Wolds for grain farming in the Roman era. Several Roman villas which were the centres of large agricultural estates have been identified around Langton and Rudston. In the low-lying lands on either side of the Wolds there was an increase in the number of settlements between 500 BC and AD 500, as the land became drier and more accessible due to a fall in sea level. The lower-lying land was used for stock breeding.[9] During the last years of Roman occupation Anglo-Saxon raiders were troubling the area and, by the second half of the 5th century, settlement by Anglian invaders was taking place in east Yorkshire. Village names containing the elements -ing, -ingham or -ham are Anglian settlement names.[10] As Christianity became established in the area from the 7th century onwards, several cemeteries like the one at Garton on the Wolds show evidence of the abandonment of pagan burial practices.[10] In AD 867, the Great Danish Army captured the Anglian town of York, and the remnants of the army settled in Yorkshire from AD 876, when their leader Halfdan shared out the land among them. Scandinavian settlements have names including the elements -by and -thorpe.[11] Scandinavian rule in the area came to an end in AD 954 with the death of their ruler Eric Bloodaxe.[12]
After the Norman Conquest of England by William the Conqueror in AD 1066, the land in the East Riding was granted to followers of the new Norman king and ecclesiastical institutions. When some of the northern earls rebelled, William retaliated with the Harrying of the North which laid waste to many East Riding villages. The land was then distributed among powerful barons, such as the Count of Aumale in Holderness and the Percy family in the Wolds and the Vale of York. These lay lords and ecclesiastical institutions, including the monasteries, continued to improve and drain their holdings throughout the Middle Ages to maximise the rents they could charge for them.[13]
In the mid-16th century Henry VIII of England dissolved the monasteries, resulting in the large areas of land owned by Meaux Abbey, Bridlington Priory and other monastic holdings being confiscated. The Crown subsequently sold these large tracts of land into private ownership. Along with the land already belonging to lay owners, they formed some of the vast estate holdings which continued to exist in the Riding until the 20th century.[14]
The 18th and 19th centuries saw first the expansion of canals and then the construction of rail links. The River Derwent was canalised as far upstream as Malton and was linked to Pocklington by the cutting of the Pocklington Canal. Other canals were cut to join the towns of Beverley and Driffield to the River Hull, which was also improved to aid navigation. The Market Weighton Canal connected the town directly to the Humber Estuary.[15] An early rail link was constructed between Filey and Bridlington in 1847 and the Malton to Driffield railway was the first to cross the Wolds in 1853.[16] These routes primarily served the agricultural community in helping to get their products to the expanding industrial markets in the West Riding of Yorkshire and to the port of Hull for export. The rail links served also to transport holidaymakers to the expanding coastal resorts of Bridlington, Hornsea and Withernsea. The canals and canalisation of some of the rivers helped to aid drainage in such of the low-lying ill-drained areas that then still existed. The landscape in the East Riding had changed little since the enclosure of the open fields in the 18th and 19th centuries, except for the removal of some hedgerows to allow for the use of large agricultural machinery in the 20th century.[17]
GeographyEdit
As a ceremonial county, the East Riding of Yorkshire borders North Yorkshire to the north, north west and to the west, South Yorkshire to the south west and Lincolnshire to the south, and includes the city of Kingston upon Hull, which is a separate unitary authority. As a district the East Riding borders North East Lincolnshire, beyond the Humber Estuary; North Lincolnshire, beyond the Humber and on land; Hull, Doncaster, Selby, York, Ryedale and Scarborough. The North Sea is to the east of the county.
GeologyEdit
Solid geology of the East Riding
Geologically the East Riding district is split into three parts. The western part is the eastern section of the Vale of York with the southern extension into the Humberhead Levels. In this area there is a belt of sandstones overlain by glacial and lake deposits formed at the close of the last ice age. The middle part is the Yorkshire Wolds, a chalk formation which extends from the Humber at North Ferriby to the coast at Flamborough Head, a chalk headland. The south-east of the district is the low-lying coastal plain of Holderness, which faces east to the North Sea, and to the south drains into the Humber Estuary. South of Flamborough Head is Bridlington, which features several beaches, and at the far south-east of the district is the Spurn peninsula.[18]
Before the last ice age the eastern coastline of the area was located along the eastern foot of the Yorkshire Wolds where remnants of beaches have been discovered. The North Sea ice sheet deposited huge amounts of boulder clay as it retreated and this subsequently formed a wet and swampy area which became the plain of Holderness.[19] Another ice sheet in the Vale of York retreated at the same time leaving thick glacial deposits and two prominent moraines to the west of the Wolds. These Vale of York deposits also formed wetlands. The Wolds themselves were largely ice-free, well drained, chalk uplands.[20] Gradually the tundra conditions that had existed as the ice retreated gave way to vegetation that could support grazing fauna. Because a lot of water was still locked in the northern ice sheets, sea level was much lower than in the present day and an area of land stretched eastwards to the low countries.[21]
LandscapeEdit
The chalk cliffs at Flamborough Head
The Wolds area takes the form of an elevated, gently rolling plateau, cut by numerous deep, steep-sided, flat-bottomed valleys of glacial origin. The chalk formation of the hills provides exceptionally good drainage, with the result that most of these valleys are dry. Surface water is quite scarce throughout the Wolds.[22] At Flamborough Head the Wolds rise up to form high chalk cliffs, where there are water-worn caves and stacks along the shore. Flamborough Headland is designated a Heritage Coast.[23] Coastal erosion around Flamborough Head has led to visitors being warned by the Humber Coastguard to be very careful on coastal paths.[24]
The Holderness landscape is dominated by deposits of till, boulder clays and glacial lake clays. These were deposited during the Devensian glaciation. The glacial deposits form a more or less continuous lowland plain which has some peat filled depressions (known locally as meres) which mark the presence of former lake beds. There are other glacial landscape features such as drumlin mounds, ridges and kettle holes scattered throughout the area. The well-drained glacial deposits provide fertile soils that can support intensive arable cultivation. Fields are generally large and bounded by drainage ditches. There is very little woodland in the area, and this leads to a landscape that is essentially rural but very flat and exposed.[25]
Skidby Windmill is surrounded by fertile agricultural land typical of the East Riding.
The Holderness coastline suffers the highest rate of coastal erosion in Europe: 2 metres a year on average or 2 million tonnes of material a year.[26] Some of this is transported by longshore drift with about 3% of material being deposited at Spurn Head spit, to the south. The coastline has retreated noticeably in the last 2,000 years, with many former settlements now flooded, particularly Ravenser Odd and Ravenspurn, which was a major port until its destruction in the 14th century.[27][28] Erosion is an ongoing concern in the area. The East Riding of Yorkshire Council has been carrying out cliff erosion defences between Sewerby and Kilnsea since 1951.[29] The Holderness area drains mostly into the Humber and the eponymous River Hull drains the area north of Hull.
The western part of the district in the Vale of York borders on and is drained by the River Derwent. The landscape is generally low-lying and flat although minor ridges and glacial moraines provide some variations in topography. Where there are dry sandy soils there are remnants of historic heathlands and ancient semi-natural woodlands. Arable fields dominate the land cover of the area and grasslands are infrequent. There are very few flood meadows left, although some significant areas remain on the lower reaches of the River Derwent.[30]
ClimateEdit
The East Riding generally has cool summers and relatively mild winters. Weather conditions vary from day to day as well as from season to season. The latitude of the area means that it is influenced by predominantly westerly winds with depressions and their associated fronts, bringing with them unsettled and windy weather, particularly in winter. Between depressions there are often small mobile anticyclones that bring periods of fair weather. In winter, anticyclones bring cold dry weather. In summer the anticyclones tend to bring dry settled conditions which can lead to drought, particularly on the Wolds. For its latitude this area is mild in winter and cooler in summer due to the influence of the Gulf Stream in the northern Atlantic Ocean. Air temperature varies on a daily and seasonal basis. The temperature is usually lower at night, and January is the coldest time of the year. The two dominant influences on the climate of the area are the shelter against the worst of the moist westerly winds provided by the Pennines and the proximity of the North Sea.[31]
Climate data for High Mowthorpe:
Average maximum and minimum temperatures, and average rainfall recorded between 1971 and 2000 by the Met Office.
Source: Met Office[32]
The High Mowthorpe weather station is in the East Riding on the Yorkshire Wolds, but areas in Holderness which are lower and nearer to the sea have generally milder weather.
GovernanceEdit
Main article: East Riding of Yorkshire Council elections
Administrative historyEdit
Main article: History of the East Riding of Yorkshire
East Riding of Yorkshire boundaries – historic riding (light pink and blue), ceremonial county (light pink and darker pink)
The administrative division of the East Riding of Yorkshire originated in antiquity. Unlike most counties in Great Britain, which were divided anciently into hundreds, Yorkshire was divided first into three ridings and then into numerous wapentakes within each riding.[33] The separate Lieutenancy for the riding was established after the Restoration, and the ridings each had separate Quarter Sessions.[34] For statistical purposes in the 19th century an East Riding of Yorkshire registration county was designated, consisting of the entirety of the Poor Law Unions of Beverley, Bridlington, Driffield, Howden, Hull, Patrington, Pocklington, Sculcoates, Skirlaugh and York.[35]
A county council for the East Riding of Yorkshire was set up in 1889, covering an administrative county which did not cover the county borough of Hull, but otherwise had the same boundaries as the historic riding. Both the administrative county and the historic Lieutenancy were abolished under the Local Government Act 1972, on 1 April 1974, with most of the riding going to form the northern part of Humberside. The creation of this cross-Humber authority was unpopular and this culminated in the local government review in the 1990s, which saw Humberside abolished and the northern part form two unitary authorities.[36] The East Riding district was formed on 1 April 1996. The ceremonial county, the area in which the Lord Lieutenant of the East Riding of Yorkshire represents the Crown, was re-established the same day, covering Hull as well as the district.[37] The district is entirely parished; Hull has no parishes. From 1996 Beverley had Charter Trustees to maintain the charter of the borough of Beverley: these were replaced by a Beverley Town Council in 1999, and Bridlington was parished in 1999. The unparished area consisting of the urban district of Haltemprice was divided into various parishes in 1999 and 2000.[38]
Current administrationEdit
County Hall, Beverley, the headquarters of the council
The East Riding of Yorkshire Council is based at County Hall in Beverley, in the former headquarters of Humberside County Council, and the former headquarters of East Riding County Council before that. There are 26 wards electing a total of 67 councillors in the District.[39] The council elects on a four-yearly cycle with all seats up for election at the same time. It first had elections in 1995—a year before it came into its powers—as a shadow authority. Between 1995 and 2007 the council had No overall control. In the 2007 local elections the Conservative Party gained a majority of seats, including those of the Liberal Democrat and Labour Party leaders. The council has a leader-and-executive system,[40] led by Steven Parnaby of the Conservative Party since its creation until his retirement at the 2019 election,[41][42] when Richard Burton was elected as his replacement.[43]
In the Audit Commission report covering 2007 the council was given a four-star rating, which places the authority as one of the best in the country.[44][45]
Result of the 2019 electionEdit
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East Riding of Yorkshire Council election, 2019
Net gain/loss
Seats %
Conservative 49 -2 73.1 44.3 86,499 -1.7%
Liberal Democrats 8 6 6 11.9 15.7 30,604 +7.2%
Independent 8 3 11.9 13.2 25,776 +7.5%
Yorkshire Party 2 2 0 2 2.99 2.5 4,965 +2.4%
Labour 0 0 6 -6 0.0 19.3 37,640 -6.7%
Green 0 0 0 0 0.0 3.6 7,023 +2.6%
UKIP 0 0 3 -3 0.0 1.2 2,356 -10%
Democrats and Veterans 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.2 399
Westminster parliamentaryEdit
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For representation in the Parliament of the United Kingdom the bulk of the East Riding district is divided into three county constituencies: Beverley and Holderness, East Yorkshire and Haltemprice and Howden, which are all Conservative-held. One of Hull's three borough constituencies, Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle, spills into the area, as does Brigg and Goole, otherwise in North Lincolnshire. All the Hull seats are Labour-held.
General Election 2010 : East Riding of Yorkshire (including Kingston upon Hull)
Change (since 2005)
Conservative 109,950 +12,622 4
Labour 86,597 −19,328 3
Liberal Democrats 70,047 +8,298 0
UKIP 11,527 +6,220 0
BNP 9,885 +8,321 0
English Democrat 3,276 n/a 0
Green 2,595 +1,737 0
SDP 914 n/a 0
National Front 880 n/a 0
TUSC 150 n/a 0
Others 225 −302 0
Turnout 296,046 +22,288 7
European parliamentaryEdit
For the European Parliament it lies within the Yorkshire and the Humber constituency, which in the May 2019 European Election elected three Brexit Party, one Labour, one Liberal Democrat and one Green MEPs.[46]
DemographicsEdit
Religion in the East Riding 2001[47]
UK Census 2001
E Riding
Yorkshire and
Christian 79.67% 73.07% 71.74%
No religion 11.90% 14.09% 14.59%
Muslim 0.27% 3.81% 3.1%
Buddhist 0.13% 0.14% 0.28%
Hindu 0.18% 0.32% 1.11%
Jewish 0.13% 0.23% 0.52%
Sikh 0.06% 0.38% 0.67%
Other religions 0.16% 0.19% 0.29%
Religion not stated 7.50% 7.77% 7.69%
Until 1 April 2009, the East Riding was the largest district and the largest unitary authority in England by area and the second largest non-metropolitan district in England by population. Following the 2009 structural changes to local government in England it fell to fifth place by area and sixth place by population.[48]
The East Riding of Yorkshire covers 240,768 hectares (930 sq mi) and has a population of 335,049 (2008 Office for National Statistics mid-year estimates), a density of 1.4 people per hectare.[49] The most populous parishes in the main 2001 census were Bridlington (34,000), Goole (17,000), Beverley (17,000), Cottingham (17,000, part of the Hull urban area), Hessle (15,000, by Hull), Driffield (11,000), Anlaby with Anlaby Common (10,000, by Hull), Hornsea (8,000) and Willerby (8,000, by Hull), Pocklington (8,000) and Elloughton-cum-Brough (7,000). Half the district's population reside in these 11 parishes, with the other half living in the other 160 parishes. In comparison, Hull's population according to the same census was 243,589. The population density of the district was around 135 people per square km, which made it the least densely populated unitary authority after the Isles of Scilly, Rutland and Herefordshire.
The East Riding has a larger than average number of residents aged 40 and above.[49] There is a particularly strong deficit in the number of young adults.[50] There is a higher-than-average level of car ownership. 36.4% of all households do not have a car.[49] Less than 5% of the population travel to work by public transport compared with 15% nationally. The district is one of the lowest non-white populations, with the census reporting 98.8% of the inhabitants being white. Hull itself is also quite monoethnic for a city of its size, with the census reporting 97.7% white.
Areas of the East Riding show significant signs of affluence, including the Parliamentary constituency of Haltemprice and Howden which mainly consists of middle class suburbs, towns and villages. Much of the area is affluent and has one of the highest proportions of owner-occupiers in the country.[51]
The crime rate in the East Riding is lower than the national average in robbery, sexual offences, theft of a vehicle, theft from a vehicle, violence against a person and burglary.[52]
Christianity is the religion with the largest following in the area, with 79.67% residents so identifying in the 2001 census. These census figures show no other single religion returned affiliation, as a percentage of population, above the national average for England. At the time of the 2001 UK census the population of the East Riding was 314,113 and its ethnic composition was 96.80% white, compared with the English average of 90.92%. The area has a slightly higher elderly population, of 24.0% in 2008, than the national average.[47]
Towns and villagesEdit
See also: List of civil parishes in the East Riding of Yorkshire and Category:Villages in the East Riding of Yorkshire
Excluding Kingston upon Hull there are several areas of settlement in the East Riding, each giving rise to distinctive types of small to medium-sized towns and villages. Cottingham and Willerby are exceptional in that they are suburban villages which are almost contiguous with the Hull urban area. Bridlington is the most populous of the coastal settlements, which also include Flamborough, Hornsea, Withernsea and Aldbrough. Towns and villages on the flat agricultural area of Holderness are Hedon and Roos, and nestling in the Great Wold Valley is Rudston. Along the eastern foot of the Wolds lie Beverley, Bishop Burton, Driffield and Lockington. In the low-lying lands close to the Humber Estuary are Goole, Brough, North Ferriby, Hessle and Kirk Ella. Stamford Bridge, Pocklington, Market Weighton, Holme-on-Spalding-Moor, Howden and South Cave all lie to the north and west of the area, between the River Derwent and the scarp slope of the Wolds.[53]
Ceremonial county of the East Riding of Yorkshire
with Kingston upon Hull shown within
Snaith and Cowick
Rivers, Motorways, 'A' Roads, Settlements Largest settlements (by population):
Kingston upon Hull (257,100)
Bridlington (35,369)
Beverley (30,351)
Goole (19,518)
Cottingham (17,164)
Hessle (15,000)
Driffield (13,080)
Elloughton-cum-Brough (10,075)
Anlaby (9,794)
Hornsea (8,432)
Pocklington (8,161)
Willerby (7,940)
Woodmansey (7,109)
Hedon (7,100)
Molescroft (6,820)
Market Weighton (6,429)
Withernsea (6,159)
Kirk Ella (5,576)
Howden (4,142)
Places of interestEdit
See also: List of SSSIs in Humberside and List of Grade I listed buildings in the East Riding of Yorkshire
Beverley's 11th-century minster is one of the county's most visited sites.
There are a wide range of interesting places to visit in the East Riding. These include historic buildings such as Burnby Hall, Burton Agnes Manor House, Burton Agnes Hall, Sewerby Hall, Skipsea Castle and the gun battery of Fort Paull. The religious edifices of the Rudston Monolith, Beverley Minster and Beverley Friary, and Howden Minster can be visited at all seasons.[54]
The sails of Skidby Windmill can be seen providing the power to grind flour on certain days, and natural sites provide interest at Spurn, Bempton Cliffs, Hornsea Mere, Humber Estuary, River Hull, Watton Beck, River Derwent, River Ouse, River Aire, River Trent, and River Don, some of which are owned or run by the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust.[55]
The Driffield Navigation, Leven Canal, Market Weighton Canal and Pocklington Canal offer glimpses of tranquillity. Stamford Bridge is the site of the famous battle, and the Yorkshire Wolds Way is a long-distance footpath that takes a winding route through the Yorkshire Wolds to Filey.[56]
Religious sitesEdit
See also: List of monastic houses in the East Riding of Yorkshire
Most of the East Riding is in the East Riding Archdeaconry of the Church of England Diocese of York. The archdeaconry includes the Yorkshire Wolds and the City of Hull, with a coastline extending from Scarborough and Bridlington in the north to Spurn Point. The Middlesbrough Roman Catholic diocese covers the East Riding of Yorkshire and North Yorkshire, together with the City of York. Notable religious sites include Beverley Minster and Bridlington Priory along with the historic parish church of St Augustine, Hedon, known as the 'King of Holderness',[57] which is a Grade I listed building. The Sykes Churches Trail is a tour of East Yorkshire churches which were built, rebuilt or restored by the Sykes family of Sledmere House in the 19th century.[58]
TransportEdit
The Humber Bridge connects the East Riding with North Lincolnshire.
The East Riding has only a small segment of motorway. Part of the M62 serves to link the Hull area to West Yorkshire and the national motorway network, while the M18 incidentally passes the district border near Goole. Primary roads in the district include the A63, A164, A165, A1034, A166, A1033 and the A1079.
Hull Paragon Interchange is a large railway station, served by the Selby Line to the west and the Yorkshire Coast Line to the north. See Railway stations in the East Riding of Yorkshire.
Train operators active in the area are Hull Trains, London North Eastern Railway, Northern and TransPennine Express. Bus services are provided by several operators including First York, which provides services from the East Riding into York, Goole Town Service and also services from Goole to Doncaster. Stagecoach in Hull provides services from the East Riding to Hull and into Lincolnshire, and East Yorkshire Motor Services, historically the dominant area operator, provides a wide variety of bus services throughout the East Riding. Yorkshire Coastliner provides services from Bridlington to Malton, York and Leeds.[59] Holderness Area Rural Transport, a charity, provides a community transport service for North Holderness, taking people to medical appointments in Hull and to the shops.[60]
The Humber Bridge, a road-only bridge, part of the A15, links Hessle, west of Hull, with Barton-upon-Humber in Lincolnshire. West of this the next crossing of the river (the Ouse at this point) are three bridges near Goole: a railway bridge, the M62 bridge and the A614.
The area is served by Humberside Airport located in Lincolnshire.
EconomyEdit
Easington gas terminal
Beverley on market day
The district is generally rural, with no towns approaching the size of Hull. There are a few market towns such as Beverley, Driffield, Goole, Market Weighton and Pocklington, and the coastal towns of Bridlington, Hornsea and Withernsea. In the south the district contains areas such as Hessle which are part of the Hull urban area but outside the city boundaries. Rural areas tend to have a greater business stock than urban areas, reflecting the number of agricultural businesses and small businesses in rural areas. 20% of all VAT registered businesses in the East Riding are in agriculture and related sectors, although the number of such businesses fell by 40% between 1997 and 2003.[61] Easington, on the coast, is the site of a natural gas terminal, Easington Gas Terminal, used for the Langeled pipeline, as well as three other gas terminals operated by BP and Centrica.[62]
This is a chart of trend of regional gross value added of East Riding of Yorkshire at current basic prices with figures in millions of British Pounds Sterling.[63]
Regional Gross Value Added[a]
Agriculture[b]
Industry[c]
Services[d]
1995 2,708 299 896 1,513
2000 3,006 209 1,090 1,707
a Components may not sum to totals due to rounding
b includes hunting and forestry
c includes energy and construction
d includes financial intermediation services indirectly measured
The East Riding is characterised by a high employment rate and a relatively low unemployment level. The overall unemployment rate is 4.3%, which is 1.2 percentage points lower than the national average. However, there are unemployment hotspots in Bridlington, Goole and Withernsea.[49] Unemployment levels tend to fluctuate over the course of the year with lower levels during the summer months due to increased employment in the tourism and food production sectors. A major year-round employer in the East Riding is the Defence School of Transport at RAF Leconfield, which trains 14,000 personnel from the Army, the Royal Air Force and the Royal Marines each year and provides more than 1,000 civilian jobs.[64]
The East Riding of Yorkshire Council has joined Hull City Council, North East Lincolnshire and North Lincolnshire Councils in the Hull and Humber Ports City Region Partnership.[65]
Renewable energyEdit
Wind farm at Out Newton
The UK government has set a target to generate 10% of the UK's electricity from renewable energy sources by 2010. The Energy White Paper (2003) sets out the Government's aspiration to double that figure to 20% by 2020. It has additionally signed up to the legally binding Kyoto Protocol, which requires a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 12.5% of 1990 levels by 2008–12 and a reduction of CO2 emissions by 20% of 1990 levels by 2010. Regional and local authorities are required to contribute to the delivery of these national targets. The East Riding has an above-average potential to generate renewable electricity for Local Authorities in the region due its large wind energy potential.[66] The East Riding of Yorkshire is set a target of 41 MW by 2010, and a target for 2021 of 148 MW for installed grid-connected renewable energy. There are operational wind farms at Lissett in Holderness and Out Newton to the north of the Humber Estuary.[67][68]
There are single turbines at the Waste Water Treatment Works at Saltend and at Loftsome Bridge Water Treatment Works near Barmby on the Marsh.[69] In addition, several other wind developments have either been given or are applying for permission. By late February 2009 there was existing developed capacity or planning approval for 140 MW of renewable energy from wind farm developments. The overall renewable energy target for 2010 and 2021 has therefore already been exceeded by wind energy proposals alone, assuming some of these schemes will be operational by 2010. The East Riding has also exceeded 148 MW, when other renewable energy types such as biomass are included in the calculation.[70][71] The Humber Estuary is to be used for trials of a tidal stream generator. If successful, it will be used to develop larger models which could be deployed in a 100-unit "renewable power station" capable of powering 70,000 homes.[72]
EducationEdit
See also: List of schools in the East Riding of Yorkshire
The Derwent Building at the University of Hull.
The East Riding local education authority supports 150 schools: 131 primary schools and 19 secondary schools.[73] The total net spending per head of population on education rose from £578.08 in 2006/07 to £632.88 in 2007/08.[49] In 2009 primary school test results showed a slide down the national performance table for the East Riding authority, dropping eight places in the national league table to 28th after other education authorities improved more in the tests.[74][75]
At secondary level the authority slipped seven places to 39th out of 149 authorities, despite producing the best set of General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) results since the inception of the East Riding of Yorkshire Council in 1996. The percentage of students achieving five or more good GCSEs, at grades A*–C including maths and English, rose to 52.5 per cent, from 50.8 per cent in 2007. This is above the national average of 47.6 per cent.[76][77] Bishop Burton is the location of Bishop Burton College, a further education and higher education college specialising in agriculture and equine studies.[78]Beverley Grammar School, which was founded around 700 AD, is widely renowned for being the oldest continuously operating state school in England.
Furthermore, Hull is home to several schools, including the private Hymers College, and a university. The University of Hull was founded as a university college in 1927 and received full university status in 1954; it is home to the Hull York Medical School, and has seen large scale expansion in recent years to cater for the ever-growing number of students.
Public servicesEdit
Hornsea fire station
Both the East Riding and Hull are still covered by the Humberside Police area and the Humberside Fire and Rescue Service.[79][80] Piped water is supplied by Yorkshire Water who also maintain the sewerage system.[81] About 1% of the population use water from private supplies. They are usually in the more remote parts of the East Riding. The majority are bore holes but they can be wells or natural springs.[82]NHS East Riding of Yorkshire provides health services such as district nursing, health visiting, school nursing, intermediate care and therapy services. It works with local GP practices, pharmacists, dentists, optometrists and ambulance services to provide a primary healthcare service.[83]Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust provides hospitals at Castle Hill Hospital, Hull Royal Infirmary and Beverley Westwood Hospital.[84] Scarborough and North East Yorkshire Healthcare NHS Trust runs Bridlington Hospital and also provides health care from the community hospitals at Driffield and Malton which are run by the local primary care trusts (NHS East Riding and NHS North Yorkshire and York). Small cottage and community hospitals provide a range of services at Hornsea and Withernsea.[85][86]
There are ten household waste recycling sites across the East Riding. In the financial year 2004/05 210,112 tonnes (206,794 long tons; 231,609 short tons) of municipal waste was collected by East Riding and 154,723 tonnes (152,279 long tons; 170,553 short tons) by Hull. Between 2003/04 and 2004/05 the amount of waste collected in Hull increased by 1.77% (2,696 tonnes [2,653 long tons; 2,972 short tons]) and in the East Riding by 4.80% (9,629 tonnes [9,477 long tons; 10,614 short tons]). Target 45+ is a joint sustainable waste-management strategy developed in partnership by Hull City Council and the East Riding of Yorkshire Council. The overall aim is to achieve 45% recycling or composting by 2010 and then go beyond this. At the outset it was anticipated that recycling rates in the East Riding by the end of 2005/06 would be 22.4% and in Hull the rate would be 17.4%.[87] The Waste Recycling Group is a company working in partnership with the Hull City and East Riding of Yorkshire councils to deal with waste. The company has plans to build an energy from waste plant at Saltend to deal with 240,000 tonnes (240,000 long tons; 260,000 short tons) of rubbish and put waste to a productive use by providing power for the equivalent of 20,000 houses.[88]
The East Riding of Yorkshire is notably high for recycling rates. The county was marked first in England for household waste recycling, composting and re-use rate in 2017. Figures highlight that 65.4% of household waste in the county was recycled or composted, ahead of second-place Rochford District who were marked at 63.9%.[89]
Sport and leisureEdit
The KCOM Stadium, Hull
Hull is the main centre for national-level sport in the region. Hull City A.F.C. play in the EFL Championship, the second tier of the English football league system, after relegation from the Premier League in the 2016–17 season.[90] Bridlington Town A.F.C. play in the Northern Counties East League Premier Division.[91] There are two professional rugby league teams based in Hull: Hull F.C. and Hull Kingston Rovers who play in the Super League. Bridlington Rugby Union Football Club plays at Dukes Park in Bridlington. The Hull Pirates ice hockey team who play in the National Ice Hockey League Division 1 (North) following the demise of the English Premier League.[92][93][94]
Horse racing is catered for at Beverley Racecourse on the Westwood to the west of Beverley. What the organisers claim is the world's oldest horse race, the Kiplingcotes Derby, has been held annually in the East Riding since 1519.[95] There are more than a dozen golf clubs in the Riding including the cliff-top course at Flamborough. The Royal Yorkshire Yacht Club is based at Bridlington, and flying and gliding take place from Pocklington airfield and Eddsfield airfield.[96]
MediaEdit
The region is covered by BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire based in Hull[97] and ITV Yorkshire, broadcast from Leeds.[98] Local analogue radio stations include BBC Radio Humberside, Capital Yorkshire, KCFM, Viking FM and Yorkshire Coast Radio. A local Digital Audio Broadcasting multiplex is based around Humberside. The county also has three Community radio stations Seaside FM, which serves the Holderness area on 105.3 FM MHz, Vixen 101 which serves Market Weighton and Pocklington and 107.8 Beverley FM which serves Beverley and the surrounding areas.[99]
Newspapers include the Hull Daily Mail, owned by Reach plc. An East Riding Mail was launched in March 2006 as a sister paper to this.[100] Other newspapers in the area include the Bridlington Free Press, the Goole Times, the Holderness Gazette, and the Driffield & Wolds Weekly.[101][102] The Beverley Guardian and the Driffield Times & Post used to serve the area but closed in 2016.[103]
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One Love Manchester will be held in the city on Sunday.
Ariana Grande is getting by with a little help from her friends.
After a deadly terror attack /www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/manchester-ariana-grande-explosion_us_59235f47e4b034684b0f0573"}}" data-beacon-parsed="true">claimed the lives of 22 people at her concert in Manchester, England, last week, the singer revealed she will return to the city to host a benefit concert that will raise funds for the victims and their families.
On Tuesday, Grande officially announced that the concert, titled One Love Manchester, would be held on Sunday at the Emirates Old Trafford cricket ground. Miley Cyrus, Coldplay, Pharrell, Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Niall Horan and more are set to perform.
All proceeds from the concert will go to the We Love Manchester Emergency Fund, which benefits all those impacted by the tragedy. One Love Manchester will also be broadcast and BBC and streamed online by a yet-to-be-announced digital partner.
Fans who attended the Manchester show on Monday will be given free tickets, and the rest are required to register for general admission seats before May 31.
In a heartfelt note shared late last week, Grande announced her plans to return to the "incredibly brave city" of Manchester for a benefit concert.
Many of the stars who will join Grande onstage have reached out to the pop star over social media with kind words and heartfelt notes since the attack.
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Ghanaian sensation Kamaldeen Sulemana scoops double awards in Danish Superliga
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Kamaldeen Sulemana scoops double awards in Danish Superliga
Ghanaian winger Kamaldeen Sulemana has stolen the headlines in Denmark after winning a historic double awards in the month of April in the Danish Superliga.
The dribbling sensation has emerged the Best Player of the Month Award as well as winning the Young Player of the Month Award in the month of April.
The feat, which is the first time for a player in the history of the club, has made the young winger the talk of town in Denmark.
It will be the first time a Nordjælland player is winning the "Young player of the month" and "Best player of the month" awards in the Danish Superliga.
The young winger carried the side on his shoulders in the month of April recording 3 wins a draw and a a defeat.
He scored five goals in the process, recording a brace against Randers FC and again netting against giants like København, AGF and Midtjylland.
Kamaldeen's uprightness and swiftness in front of goal and his ability to covert chances into goals have been a major accelerator for FCN this season.
The youngster was handed his maiden invitation to the Ghana senior national team last year during the friendly encounters with Mali and Qatar in Turkey.
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Popular narrator Scott Brick to join Literary Tastes panel
By Guest Author March 30, 2018
Scott Brick, narrator of hundreds of audiobooks, including the 2016 Listen List winner Dead Wake by Erik Larson (Books on Tape), will be joining RUSA's ever popular conference highlight, Literary Tastes author panel. The panel features authors and narrators that have been named to one (and sometimes more) of RUSA's Best of Lists for fiction, nonfiction, poetry and audiobook narration in 2018. Joining Brick on the panel is Thi Bui, author of The Best We Could Do, a 2018 Notable Book for Nonfiction and Kathleen Rooney, author of Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk, a 2018 Listen List selection. Attendees will enjoy breakfast and book signings immediately following the event.
Listeners who enjoyed Brick's narration of Dead Wake may also enjoy:
"Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage" by Alfred Lansing. Narrated by Simon Prebble. Blackstone Audio.
"The Guns of August" by Barbara W. Tuchman. Narrated by John Lee. Recorded Books/Tantor Media.
"A Night to Remember: The Classic Account of the Final Hours of the Titanic" by Walter Lord. Narrated by Martin Jarvis. Blackstone Audio.
Born on January 30, 1966 in Santa Barbara, California, Brick studied both acting and writing at UCLA, and joined the ranks of working professionals upon leaving school in 1989. He then spent ten years with the LA-based Will and Company, a traveling Shakespearean company which performed for schools throughout California, in addition to acting in such roles as Cyrano, Hamlet and Macbeth at various playhouses around the country.
In 2000, Brick ventured into narrating audiobooks and quickly found himself embraced by the audio world. To date he's won over 50 Earphones Awards for his narrating skills, as well as two Audie Awards for his work on the Dune saga. After recording 250 titles in his first five years, Audiofile Magazine named Brick "one of the fastest-rising stars in the audiobook galaxy," and proclaimed him a Golden Voice, but it was the Wall Street Journal that sealed the moniker with a front-page article in November, 2004. Having now recorded over 600 titles, including such classics as Mystic River, Fahrenheit 451, In Cold Blood and Helter Skelter, Brick has no intention of slowing down.
In 2016, Booklist named Brick the "Voice of Choice" winner. Joyce Saricks, former Listen List selection committee member said, "Brick understands the significance of hearing stories. Radio was important to him growing up, and he believes that 'the golden age of radio was the golden age of storytelling—it's just the author's words and the listener's ear with nothing else in between.' When he's asked about the current popularity of audiobooks, he doesn't credit the technology that has made listening so much easier on a wide range of devices. He speculates, instead, that 'we were read to as children, and we miss it. Listening to radio as a kid and now listening to and narrating audiobooks as an adult reminds me of the times we were all read to as children.'" Read more of Sarick's feature article on Brick here.
Literary Tastes takes place on Sunday, June 24, 2018. Tickets are available on the conference website or you can add them to your registration with the code RUS3.
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In Ethiopia, model drought defenses are put to the test
The country's booming capital, Addis Ababa, sits in stark contrast to rural areas struggling against two severe droughts in three years. But innovative aid has helped farming communities manage the crisis. Part 1 of our series on famine resilience.
Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff
Displaced families live by a road in a drought-affected area on the outskirts of Melkaselah Village, Somali Region, Ethiopia. After three failed spring rain seasons, this region in the southeast of the country is experiencing extreme drought. The government, NGO's, UN agencies and private groups are coordinating to provide aid and assistance to those affected to prevent a famine.
By Ryan Lenora Brown Correspondent
@ryanlenorabrown
Gode, Ethiopia
Battered by drought and civil wars, more than 20 million people from Yemen to Tanzania are at risk of starvation in what aid workers call the largest humanitarian crisis since World War II. But over the past two decades, nations that once produced searing images of famine's toll have moved to thwart it by strengthening community resilience. Our reporters traveled to Madagascar, Ethiopia, and Somaliland to investigate the daunting challenges as well as the long-term efforts that are saving lives.
Addis Ababa is hungry. These days, Ethiopia's capital seems to need more of almost everything: land for factories, shopping malls and highways; steel and concrete to build new skyscrapers; lanky rods of eucalyptus to scaffold their skeletons as they rise. Addis needs more roads, schools, houses, and cars. It needs apartment buildings for its migrants, and five-star hotels for the unending parade of diplomats attending African Union meetings in the glossy new Chinese-bankrolled headquarters at the center of town. The city fills out and up, seemingly insatiable, nibbling into surrounding farmland and poking higher and higher into the smoggy highland sky.
Vehicles pass through Meskel Square beside the elevated tracks of the modern light rail in downtown Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the capital of one of the world's faster-growing economies.
Six hundred miles to the southeast, meanwhile, Ethiopia's Somali region is hungry, too – or more accurately, it is thirsty. It hasn't rained here – at least, not enough – in more than a year, and more rain isn't expected until October. It's already been long enough that grazing lands have grown huge bald spots, and intake at pediatric malnutrition wards has doubled. It's long enough that ribs ripple visibly beneath the skin of those few cows and camels that have survived, and long enough to leave thousands of young people stranded in romantic purgatory: engaged, in love, but without the money to pay yarad, the traditional Somali bride price.
Unlike in Addis, where old Soviet Ladas jostle for space with high-end SUVs on traffic-clogged streets, practically the only vehicles on the roads here are ancient, bug-eyed Mercedes cargo trucks carting water and food aid into remote towns. This is the second severe drought to hit the country in three years, and government and humanitarian agencies estimate that nearly 8 million Ethiopians are currently in urgent need of humanitarian assistance – a figure that is expected to grow amid the dry season, which began in July.
"I'm 80 years old and I'm telling you that I have never seen a drought like this before," says Abdullahi Abdi, a resident of Melkaselah, a windswept village in the Somali Region. "It has not rained here in 22 days."
"I'm 80 years old and I'm telling you that I have never seen a drought like this before," says Abdullahi Abdi, a resident of a windswept Somali region village called Melkaselah, resting his orange henna-tinted beard on a walking stick. It has not rained here in 22 days, he says, at a time of year when the rains should come two or three times a week. "All of our livestock are gone."
For decades, Ethiopia was synonymous in many Westerners' minds with scenes like this one, the kind splashed across the world's front pages during the infamous famines of the 1970s and '80s and immortalized in pop music by the cringe-worthy "Do They Know It's Christmas?" (Suffice to say, in one of the world's oldest Christian societies, they probably did.)
But now, Ethiopia's image looks a lot more like its capital city: gleaming, cosmopolitan, and boldly aspirational. Although still a nation of farmers, for the past decade, this has been among the world's fastest growing economies. It has used that brisk development to slash illiteracy, disease, and extreme poverty – though by methods undemocratic and at times aggressively repressive.
And if Ethiopia was once the world's poster child for drought mismanagement, it is now the regional model for early warning and nimble response. As two of the worst droughts in recorded history have swept across the country, a muscular, government-led reaction has driven back the crisis to mostly manageable levels – even as in neighboring South Sudan and Somalia, the same weather conditions have brought populations to the edge of famine.
A shepherd herds his camels in search of water in Kebridhar, in Ethiopia's Somali Region. In this pastoral region, where livestock are considered wealth, many families have lost all their animals to the drought.
"The drought [of 2015-16] was at least as bad as the drought in the mid-1980s," says Stein Holden, a professor of development and resource economics in the School of Economics and Business at Norwegian University of Life Sciences, referring to the first of the country's two recent droughts, which ended last year (the second, in the southern Somali region, is still ongoing). "But because the country is much economically stronger and more stable now it's been able to provide a lot of the aid itself, without outside intervention."
Improvement – under pressure
In 2016, indeed, the government of Ethiopia funneled more than $700 million of its own money into drought relief efforts – close to half the total global money that went to the relief effort. It has a standing department for managing natural disasters and amasses thick stacks of weather data from satellites, farmers, and forecasters to predict when the weather may turn again.
The 8 million poorest Ethiopians, meanwhile, benefit from an innovative public welfare system that parcels out small amounts of cash or food during the leanest six months of the year in return for labor in local public works projects: building schools and clinics, fixing roads, digging wells.
"We aren't just given that money – we work for it," says Bashir Abdi, a herder in the Shabelle Zone of Somali region, jabbing his finger toward a nearby berkad, a shallow concrete pool used to collect rainwater for the village, that he and others here dug as part of their Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP) work a few years ago. Such projects are part of a vast network of infrastructure – including nearly 25,000 miles of new roads, 500 clinics, and 4,300 school rooms – that the PSNP's beneficiaries have built since the program began in 2005.
Women collect their family's ration of water from a cement birkhad, a shallow concrete pool used to collect rainwater for the village, that is filled every day with water from a Save the Children truck.
And though families receive an almost vanishingly small sum of cash – as little as $10 per month per person – the program has been responsible for cutting poverty in the country by 2 percent, according to data from the World Bank, which co-finances the project.
"The system Ethiopia has is spectacular," says Kelly Johnson, a senior social protection specialist with the World Bank who advises the Ethiopian government on the PSNP. "It has reached a point where it is beginning to serve as a model for other programs in Africa and around the world."
Jacob Turcotte/Staff
But Ethiopia's success story is not a simple one. The government keeps a white-knuckled grip on the media and political dissidents, and patrols the boundaries of the country's glittering new image carefully. Since political protests broke out in the country in late 2015, more than 500 demonstrators have died, tens of thousands have been arrested, and the country has been placed under a draconian "state of emergency" that, among other things, limits freedom of assembly and speech, and bars certain forms of social media. Journalists are routinely detained or arrested and accused of provoking unrest with critical coverage. (On a recent visit, Christian Science Monitor reporters were assigned a minder to observe their coverage of the drought response.)
International aid groups, meanwhile, speak delicately of past "food crises" (never famines) and outbreaks of "acute watery diarrhea" (never cholera, a more serious diagnosis), careful to avoid offending government overseers who could cut off their access to needy communities. Officials at a hospital in the Somali region visited by The Christian Science Monitor, for instance, said they had evidence that an outbreak of cholera had begun in the area – despite the government's refusal to confirm this.
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"[The government] doesn't always ask for help in time – their early warning systems are good, but the decision-makers don't always want to listen," says an aid worker here who asked not to be identified because of his organization's ties to the government. There is heavy pressure, he says, to keep international eyes off of situations that could tarnish the country's image.
Deciding whom to help
In other ways, however, the country is the victim of its own success, says Mitiku Kassa, who heads the National Disaster Risk Management Coordination Commission. Unlike other countries in the region facing disasters, "we can find the money and the resources," he says, "but it means we spend our development budget on humanitarian issues." Pouring that money into disaster relief, in other words, is akin to taking out a mortgage on the country's future.
One donkey who survived helped four families displaced by drought get to this spot by the side of a main road on the outskirts of Melkaselah village. Families migrate to roads so the government can see them and see that they need help.
In Ethiopia, indeed, both government and international NGOs have struggled to convince international donors to cut checks for assistance when drought crises in nearby countries like Somalia, South Sudan, Yemen, and Nigeria are far more dire. The government has asked international donors for $948 million, but received only half of that, according to international NGO Save the Children. In May alone, 700,000 Ethiopians needing assistance went without food support for lack of funding.
"Overall, there's a big stretch on resources in the humanitarian situation globally," says Charlie Mason, humanitarian director for Save the Children in Ethiopia. (In March, indeed, the UN's humanitarian chief, Stephen O'Brien, warned that the world was facing the largest humanitarian crisis since the end of World War II).
And despite the obvious wisdom of early intervention and prevention projects like those carried out in Ethiopia, Mr. Mason says, "donors find it difficult to fund something that hasn't happened yet."
But Mr. Kassa and Mason both point out that Ethiopia's track record in preventing famines should be a vote in favor of giving aid to the country – not against it.
"Sure, Ethiopia is much more self-sufficient [than its neighbors]," Mason says. "But the other side of that is that it's easier to prevent a crisis here – which I think gives the world a moral obligation to do exactly that."
Farah Yusef feeds peanut butter paste, called Plumpy'Nut, to her daughter Halima, 16 months, at Save the Children's health and nutrition center for malnourished children at a hospital in Kebridhar, Somali Region, Ethiopia. Doctors say Halima is making a brisk recovery. Since the drought, the amount of malnourished children has doubled.
'Two polar opposite Ethiopias'
Donors may also have another ethical imperative to assist countries like Ethiopia and its neighbors, which, despite their minuscule contributions to global warming, have been among the hardest hit by the world's changing climate. The southeast's current drought comes on the heels of another in the north, which in turn came only three years after the 2011-12 drought in the Horn of Africa and ensuing famine in parts of neighboring Somalia. A generation or two ago, such a rapid succession of extreme weather events would have been unthinkable, locals say.
In the Somali region of Ethiopia, ground zero of the current drought, that series has been especially devastating. Most people here are herders, and families spend generations building flocks of cows, sheep, and camels. Losing them is a form of bankruptcy that could take another lifetime to recover from.
"No rain, no water, no pasture, no milk, no food," says a local herder named Halima Gawsole, ticking off the things she has lost since the rains first failed here a year ago. Now, she and thirty members of her extended family are on the move, their last possessions tethered to their final animal – a weary donkey. Another family member told them the government was delivering water and sacks of grain nearby, and they've come to see if it is true. "We've lost everything now," she says.
Halima Gawsole and thirty family members traveled to a roadside in search of help after another family member told them the government was delivering water and sacks of grain nearby. In six months, their 100 camels, 50 cattle, and 200 sheep and goats all died.
For the Ethiopian government, the story told by women like Ms. Gawsole sits uncomfortably beside the story they tell about themselves: one exemplified by Addis supermarkets stocked with French cheese, Coco Pops, and 30 kinds of pasta, a rags-to-riches story set to the soundtrack of whirring drills and thudding hammers.
"There are two polar opposite Ethiopias happening side-by-side," says a young doctor working in a pediatric malnutrition ward in the Somali region, who asked that her name not be used because "everything you say is political these days."
The doctor, who comes from Addis and speaks the crisp, placeless English of the internationally educated, spends her days straddling both worlds: by day, treating the babies of women her own age who have never been to school or lived in a house with a tin roof; by night, Facetime-ing with her family in the doctors' quarters.
But it's clear there's a little more of her Ethiopia to go around these days. A generation ago, many of the women she sees each day here might never have made it to a clinic at all. Now, they spend their days in clean, warmly lit wards, coaxing their rail-thin babies to eat sachets of fortified peanut butter. Some of the families here are on the government's welfare and public works program. Others have gotten assistance – food, water, a bit of cash – from the government or NGOs.
It isn't prosperity, but it isn't disaster, either. It's somewhere in the expanse between – a room full of people just about getting by.
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Coinbase, Circle Back Former FTX US President's New Crypto Venture
The former President of FTX.US is back with a new venture for crypto traders.
And despite his ties to the defunct exchange empire, he's landed support from key players.
Brett Harrison's new project, Architect, has raised $5 million in funding from the likes of Coinbase Ventures, Circle Ventures, and former White House press secretary under Trump Anthony Scaramucci, among others.
Architect is a software company building Web3 trading infrastructure. Its products will largely be intended for the B2B market but may also see adoption from high-volume traders, Harrison told Decrypt in an interview.
Harrison said that the firm's primary clients will turn to Architect to quickly and seamlessly trade across multiple crypto platforms through a single interface. He suggested, for example, how Architect might create one API that combines trading across Coinbase and Uniswap.
As Architect looks to develop products for big-name industry clients, it's also making trust and safety "key components."
"We're hoping to design Architect such that clients can trade without having to rely on us to store or safeguard their private information, for example, [or] exchange API keys or wallet keys. So we think that a decentralized solution in some way is going to be important for the design," Harrison said.
Crypto raises return to earth
Harrison's ties to FTX
Harrison says the crypto venture capital world has been brought "back to a more normal state" since Terra's implosion in May 2022.
"There was a huge bubble," he said of the venture capital space. Now, investors are taking more time to vet and investigate prospective targets. "That's actually a very good thing for private markets."
The deflation of the latest bubble, along with the collapse of FTX, made raising capital for Architect difficult, he added. But Harrison believes the project raised its seed funding because of his long-term connections to his investors.
"Many of these partners are people who have known me for a while now and have worked with me for a while now," he said.
Still, while Architect may be looking toward the future of Web3, many on Twitter immediately raised concerns about Harrison's past, citing his prior role at FTX US.
A week ago, Harrison published a nearly 50-part Twitter thread detailing his departure from FTX.US in September 2022. He said that by the time he left, his relationship with then-FTX International CEO Sam Bankman-Fried had "reached a point of total deterioration, after months of disputes over management practices at FTX."
1/49 Many have asked questions about my time at FTX US and why I left when I did. As I indicated earlier this week, I'm happy to begin sharing my experiences and perspective publicly.
— Brett Harrison (@BrettHarrison88) January 14, 2023
While FTX's bankruptcy filing came just two months after Harrison's departure, the executive said his desire to leave the company had solidified "much earlier."
When asked for his thoughts on the possibility of an FTX International "reboot," Harrison told Decrypt the idea was an "interesting possibility."
"I think that if there was some possible way to bring it back online with good management who's able to really clean it up, I think that would be an interesting possibility, both for the kind of recovery of profits for the sake of paying back customers, but also for the sake of people having another option to trade on again," he said.
As for whether FTX.US is as "solvent" as Sam Bankman-Fried claims it is, Harrison is much less sure, but remains cautiously optimistic.
"It's impossible to say," he told Decrypt. "I think we all have to wait."
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Recycling in Wealden achieved record levels last year, according to the latest performance figures from Wealden District Council.
In the year April 2013 – March 2014, 46.5% of household waste was reused, recycled or composted, exceeding the target of 45% and ahead of the previous years 43.9% .
To compare how Wealden is doing with other authorities. In 2012/13, the last year when national figures are available, the average in England was 43.2%, but this hides much variation. In the South East the rates ranged from 12 to 60%. One of the better authorities locally was Tunbridge Wells which recycled 46.0%. Lewes was particularly bad down at 22.3%.
This is fantastic news. It shows that the new recycling system introduced by Kier makes it easier for people to recycle and I get plenty of feedback that people like the simplicity of the new system.
I would like to thank residents for the commitment they have shown to recycling. I know we had a difficult start to the new round structure last summer, but by working together, we have shown we can achieve really good recycling results. I'm looking forward to the District achieving a 50% recycling rate in the not too distant future.
Wealden's year end performance statistics also highlight the new uses which waste is being put to in East Sussex. Much residual waste is now being used to generate power for the National Grid from the Newhaven Energy Recovery Facility. This means the amount of waste from Wealden that ended up in landfill last year was just 3.8%.
There has also been a slight reduction in the amount of waste produced by Wealden households, according to collection figures, which may be an indication that households and businesses are Reducing and Re-using as well as Recycling.
Reduce, Re-use and Recycle are the three Rs of waste reduction. Find out more on the Recycling pages of the Wealden website.


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Pair of signees will not join football Eagles
A pair of Southern Miss football signees will not suit up for the Golden Eagles after all.
Pair of signees will not join football Eagles A pair of Southern Miss football signees will not suit up for the Golden Eagles after all. Check out this story on hattiesburgamerican.com: http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/story/sports/college/southern-miss/2014/07/02/pair-signees-will-join-football-eagles/12124069/
Jason Munz, Southern Miss Sports Writer Published 10:48 p.m. CT July 2, 2014
Defensive back Quade Alexander (Florence, Ala.) failed to qualify academically, while defensive lineman Matthew Davis (South Panola) quit.
In addition, two more Southern Miss signees from the most recent signing class will not join the team this fall.
Wide receiver Jordan Mitchell (Oak Grove) and defensive lineman Jon Michael Edwards (Montgomery, Ala.) will each take a grayshirt, delaying their enrollment until the spring semester.
Former baseball Eagles
Former Southern Miss standouts Mason Robbins, Bradley Roney and Conor Fisk, who were each selected in last month's Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft, have enjoyed strong starts to their professional careers.
Robbins, an outfielder, was drafted by the Chicago White Sox in the 25th round. For the franchise's Class A Great Falls (Mont.) Voyagers, Robbins is hitting .289 with three doubles and four RBIs. The George County native has hit safely in eight out of 10 games with the Voyagers, including the last six in a row.
Roney, picked in the eighth round by the Atlanta Braves, is 1-0 with a 6.75 earned run average for the Class A Danville (Va.) club. The former Golden Eagle closer has made four appearances. He's struck out four and allowed three earned runs.
The Toronto Blue Jays selected Fisk in the 24th round. The right-handed pitcher is 1-0 with a 4.70 ERA in three relief appearances. He has struck out 10 and walked two in 7 2/3 innings pitched.
Soccer schedule announced
Southern Miss head soccer coach Mohammed El-Zare recently announced the upcoming 2014 schedule. The 19-game schedule is highlighted by 10 home games at the Southern Miss Soccer Complex.
The Golden Eagles open the preseason campaign with an exhibition match on the road against Louisiana-Lafayette on Aug. 15.
Southern Miss kicks off the regular season with three consecutive home games. The Eagles take on Nicholls State in the regular-season opener on Aug. 22.
The Golden Eagles open Conference USA play at Rice on Sept. 26.


When Eva Blum-Dumontet, a research officer for London-based non-profit Privacy International, attends conferences, she likes to ask people she meets if they live in a smart city.
The answer is often "no", she says, and that is because respondents are unaware that they are from one of the many cities pouring money into such initiatives. A smart city is an urban area that uses different types of electronic data collection sensors to supply information which is used to manage assets and resources efficiently.
This response is worrying, Blum-Dumontet says, because it means they are ignorant of the potential risks to their privacy and security.
Metropolises around the world – including Hong Kong, which unveiled its blueprint last December – are racing to become smart cities, building an "intelligent" infrastructure geared towards greater efficiency. But what does it take to make a city smart?
"Smart city is a concept born in the late '90s describing the digitalisation of urban information and the potential to apply artificial intelligence to information collected through sensors, to give timely responses to metropolitan problems," says Dr Sara Degli-Esposti, a research fellow at the Centre for Business in Society at Coventry University in Britain.
The technology offers a wide range of solutions in areas such as traffic control, pollution and waste management, and effective use of energy.
According to a McKinsey report published in June, the world's smartest cities are New York, Singapore and San Francisco. However, the Chinese cities of Shenzhen, Beijing and Shenzhen, and the South Korean capital Seoul, are catching up quickly, the US consulting firm said.
Another report, released by Deloitte earlier this year, found that China has 500 smart city pilot projects under way – half of the world's total.
One such initiative is under way in the eastern city of Nanjing, which is collaborating with Germany-based software company SAP to create an intelligent traffic system.
"They are taking data from taxis and buses – their GPS location, their speed – and using the data from video cameras, traffic signals, plotting them into a traffic control system and using that to make decisions on roadworks, re-routing of buses and traffic deviation," says Max Claps, who leads the company's Future Cities team.
Despite the obvious benefits, however, experts warn that, around the world, citizens are woefully unaware of the impact smart city initiatives could have on their personal privacy. Smart technology also hands governments and their law enforcement agencies powerful tools to monitor citizens, control their behaviour and take surveillance to a whole new level, they warn.
That could be a serious concern for citizens of authoritarian states, and in China facial recognition systems are becoming a way of life. The technology is being used for a range of commercial applications in the retail, banking and travel industries, but also for security purposes, including identifying criminals and jaywalkers.
It is also being used in the restive, Muslim-majority Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, ostensibly to curtail protests by detecting where crowds are gathering.
A UN panel this week heard "credible reports" that a million Uygurs are being detained in internment camps in the region, in the name of combating Islamic extremism and separatist sentiments. Beijing strongly denied the claim.
Singapore, which is striving to become the world's first smart nation plans to install more than 100,000 CCTV cameras on lamp posts, linked to facial recognition software. The government says they will help catch traffic violators and letterers, people smoking in prohibited spaces, and combat other illegal activities.
Increasingly, surveillance is occurring not just in public areas but also in private spaces. Wireless sensors have been fitted in homes for the elderly in Singapore to monitor the movements, sleeping patterns and even bathroom use of residents.
Under current legislation, law enforcement agencies in Singapore are permitted access to the data without seeking court approval or citizen consultation, she adds.
Singapore has partnered with French software company Dassault Systèmes to create Virtual Singapore, a 3D city model and platform that aggregates all the real-time city data collected by the nation's sensors and camera. It is almost a real-world version of the video game SimCity. It will allow the government to zoom in on any flat and scan it for information – its size, number of residents, energy consumption and more.
Blum-Dumontet cautions that whereas once our behaviour could be tracked only when we are online, we can now be under surveillance permanently.
"Having your energy monitored [by smart meters] means 24/7, what you're doing in the house is being monitored by the energy companies and the government. You enter a world where you can no longer escape the surveillance," says Blum-Dumontet. This is particularly pertinent to citizens of countries with poor human rights records and no legal framework in place to protect citizens' data.
The "Big Brother" effect is not confined to authoritarian regimes. Even in democratic countries where people have the rights to protest and organise, smart technology could erode people's capacity to dissent, she says.
"You're not alone when you protest. You're part of a crowd and it gives you strength. You find a form of anonymity by being in a crowd," says Blum-Dumontet. Yet extensive use of facial recognition software enables law enforcement to identify every participant.
"Digital technology lowers the cost of surveillance and increases the imbalance of power between people – the surveilled subject – and corporations or the state and their almighty vigilant eye," says Degli-Esposti, whose research focuses on the ethical implications of digital technology.
Claps, from SAP, acknowledges that it is becoming increasingly difficult to protect privacy in an interconnected world. One way of doing so, he says, is to increase transparency, offer layers of consent, and establish detailed rules on collection, access and use of data. However, such a framework is unlikely to become a reality in more authoritarian countries.
Concerns about smart utilities – designed to generate more accurate billing information – go beyond the fact that they can track our behaviour.
With smart sensors and cameras detecting citizens' every move, and collecting large amounts of data, what will happen if it falls into the wrong hands, or hackers hijack our smart infrastructure?
Past cyberattacks illustrate how vulnerable even the most hi-tech infrastructure can be. For example, the computer systems of a nuclear plant operator in South Korea were breached in 2014. Though the authorities insisted no critical data was leaked, the incident prompted security fears.
Also worrying is that most regional governments and city councils rely on private companies to realise their smart vision.
"Private companies are subject to strict confidentiality agreements, and terms of service and use, which prevent the client from running third-party penetration testing and getting a sense of actual risks," Degli-Esposti says. It's important to have in-house talent to write detailed public procurement specifications and maintain the software over time, she adds.
Such a scenario played out in May last year when the Wannacry ransomware cyberattack infected an estimated 200,000 computers worldwide, including those belonging to Britain's National Health Service trusts. An investigation revealed that the incident could have been prevented if the trusts has patched or upgraded older software.
Although experts have spoken out on the risks inherent in smart cities, some argue that the issues are still not being discussed by the wider public, partly because of a lack of consultation when these initiatives are introduced.


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using BztToolbox.Common.Constantes;
using BztToolbox.Common.Utility;
using BztToolbox.Modules.AboutModules.Views;
using Microsoft.Practices.Composite.Modularity;
using Microsoft.Practices.Composite.Regions;
using Microsoft.Practices.ServiceLocation;
using Microsoft.Practices.Unity;

namespace BztToolbox.Modules.AboutModules
{
	[Priority(500)]
	public class ModuleAboutModules : IModule
	{
		#region IModule Membres

		public void Initialize() {
			NotificationHelper.WriteNotification("Initialisation du Module AboutModules.");

			ModulesHelper.AddLoadedModuleToList("AboutModules");

			var regionManager = ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance<IRegionManager>();
			var container = ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance<IUnityContainer>();

			// Enregistrement du MenuItem
			regionManager.RegisterViewWithRegion(RegionNames.MenuModulesRegion, typeof(AboutModulesMenuView));

			// enregistrement de la vue
			container.RegisterType<AboutModulesView>(typeof(AboutModulesView).ToString());
		}
		#endregion
	}
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


in their written contracts or agreements with consultants, companies must include provisions regarding the obligation of the consultant to declare that he/she is a consultant to the company whenever he/she writes or speaks in public about a matter that is the subject of the agreement or any other issue relating to that company. Similarly, companies that employ, on a part-time basis, health professionals that are still practising their profession must ensure that such persons are obliged to declare their employment arrangement with the company whenever they write or speak in public about a matter that is the subject of the employment or any other issue relating to that company.
23.2 Pharmaceutical companies must publicly disclose details of the fees paid to consultants in the UK, or to their employers on their behalf, for certain services rendered by them such as chairing and speaking at meetings, assistance with training and participation in advisory boards etc. It includes payments to consultants in relation to research and development work, including the conduct of clinical trials.
23.3 In addition to the information required to be made public by Clause 23.2, companies must publicly disclose details of payments made to consultants in relation to market research (unless the company concerned is not aware of the identities of those participating in the market research).
23.4 Fees, expenses and the like due to consultants in relation to Clauses 23.2 and 23.3 must be disclosed whether paid directly to them or to their employers or to healthcare organisations or to companies or charities etc.
The term 'consultant' in Clause 23 covers any health professional or other relevant decision maker consulted for the purposes described in Clause 23 regardless of their normal roles.
Other relevant decsion makers covered by Clause 23 are those who could influence in any way the prescription, supply, administration, recommendation, purchase or sale of any medicine.
The provision of services to pharmaceutical companies by patient organisations is covered by Clause 27.8.
The requirement that contracts or agreements with consultants must include provisions regarding their obligation to declare the arrangement whenever they write or speak in public applies to contracts entered into or renewed on or after 1 May 2011. Companies are encouraged to renegotiate existing contracts to include such provisions at their earliest convenience.
Limited market research, such as one-off telephone interviews or mail/email/Internet questionnaires was excluded from the scope of Clause 20.1 of the 2012 Code, provided that the consultant was not consulted in a recurring manner (either with respect to the frequency of the calls generally or of calls relating to the same research) and that the remuneration was minimal. Following implementation of Clause 20.3 of the 2012 Code, payments made in relation to this limited market research must be made publicly available in accordance with that clause.
If health professionals or other relevant decision makers attend events in a consultant or advisory capacity the relevant provisions of Clause 22 apply.
The information required by Clause 23.2 must be publicly disclosed in respect of the calendar year 2015 and each calendar year thereafter.
The information which must be disclosed is the total amount paid in a calendar year to each consultant who has provided services. Companies may, of course, give greater detail, for example by giving separate figures for different categories of service.
The names of the consultants must be disclosed except in relation to payments in relation to research and development work, including clinical trials, as defined below, where disclosure should be on an aggregate basis.
non-interventional studies that are prospective in nature and involve the collection of data from, or on behalf of, individual or groups of health professionals specifically for the study.
Costs that are subsidiary to these activities can be included in the aggregate amount.
Clause 23.3 relates only to market research using consultants where the pharmaceutical company knows the identity of the consultants. This is because the focus of the requirements concerning transparency is on areas where there are direct relationships between the parties and that is not so where the company does not know the identity of the participants.
For disclosures in relation to the calendar years 2013 and 2014, the requirements and procedures in Clauses 20.2 and 20.3 and their supplementary information in the Second 2012 Edition of the Code still apply.