内容摘要：New facility: Young people in Swindon celebrated the opening of a

New facility: Young people in Swindon celebrated the opening of a

East Riding of Yorkshire Council said Deira Court, a three-storey building, would replace the old accommodation on the site.The authority said it had allocated more than £40m to replace or refurbish six sheltered housing schemes in the county.

Claire Hoskins, the council's director of asset strategy said the scheme would "deliver much needed sheltered accommodation" and will ensure older adults could live independently at home for longer.The authority said the funding for the project included £7.8m from Homes England and £400,000 from the Hull and East Yorkshire Combined Authority brownfield housing fund, with further funding bids to be submitted as schemes progress.Hull-based developers Hobson & Porter won the £10.5m contract to demolish and rebuild the accommodation at Deira Court.

The scheme will have 32 one-bedroom apartments and eight two-bedroom apartments, a communal resident's lounge, a communal drying room, a mobility scooter store, and an office for visiting council staff.The building will be accessible for people with limited mobility and 10% of the accommodation will be built for wheelchair users.

Ms Hoskins said: "It's great to see work commence at Deira Court, and I look forward to seeing the first new residents move in, when the project is completed.

"The new scheme will deliver much needed sheltered accommodation, helping to ensure that older adults can live independently at home for longer."All of these issues have been discussed for years, but they have suddenly attained a new sense of urgency with Trump's apparent bid for control of Greenland.

But regardless of who sits in the White House, the question is whether Greenlanders would see any benefit in raising cooperation levels with the United States - and if so, to what extent?"Greenland's national project is all about spreading out the island's dependence in order to have as many ties as possible with the outside world," says Ulrik Pram Gad, a senior researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies and an expert on the Arctic region.

It is in this context that some Greenlanders are warming to the model of a "free association" with either Denmark or the United States – replicating a similar loose arrangement between the United States and certain islands in the Pacific."The problem is that Greenland feels swallowed up by Denmark," says Mr Pram Gad. "It aims to feel less constrained and less dependent on just one country. Free association is not so much about 'association' and more about 'free'. It's about having one's own sovereignty."