An equestrian shop is holding a trade-in day this weekend and is inviting people from the Driffield area to make the most of it.
Trade in Day.
Robinsons Equestrian will give customers a £10 discount on any new riding hat, body protector or show jacket or tweed if they take in any similar old equipment to trade.
The trade-in day is on Saturday 18 May and a minimum spend applies.
Robinsons Equestrian is in Norton Road, Malton.
Members of the Student Executive Council recently welcomed Matthew Grove, the new Humberside Police & Crime Commissioner, to the school for a fact-finding visit.
Tom Baker, Y13 and Daisy Noble, Y9, with assistant head teacher primary liaison Mr Barnard, Matthew Grove and PC Steve Wilson, gave Mr Grove a tour of the site and, on the way round, took the opportunity to discuss some school issues.
Daisy said: “Mr Grove was late arriving at school so at first I thought he was a bit disorganised, but as the tour went on it became clear he is a very kind person and I think he’ll make a great police commissioner.
“We talked about the problem of people trying to sell drugs to students coming in to school along Manorfield Road and he suggested one deterrent could be to have a PCSO doing random patrols.”
Tom said: “He seemed like a very nice person who was genuinely interested in our views. He was surprised at how big our school site is and was very impressed with the new ACE Centre.”
Mr Grove thanked the Student Exec for taking the time to see him and share their views.
He said: “My vision for policing and crime across the Humberside area is a simple one. It is to put the public and victims of crime at the centre of everything I do.”
A pair of young fund raisers collected £343 in aid of a cancer charity.
Sophie Osman and Clare Ison, both aged 10 and from Driffield, held a bake sale at Driffield Leisure Centre in aid of Cancer Research UK.
Sophie said: “We did it because we know quite a few people who have been affected by cancer and we just wanted to do it to get money for them.”
Clare said: “It was fun but it was tiring. It was nice because we wanted to raise money for cancer because it is a good cause.”
The pair were helped by Sophie Lawson.
A Driffield man has appeared at Bridlington Magistrates Court to deny a charge of wounding or inflicting grievous bodily harm on another man.
James Rivard, 23, of Easingwood Way, is charged with committing the offence against James Hines on 25 December last year.Mr Rivard will next appear before magistrates on 26 of June when a date for trial will be set.
Mr Rivard was granted bail.
A game between the Television Soap Stars and Russell Slade’s East Coast Stars will be held on Sunday 26 May, at 3pm at the Neil Hudgell Solicitors Stadium.
The Soap Stars team will include a selection of the following personalities:
Danny Miller, who played Aaron Livesy in Emmerdale.
Tony Discipline, better known as Anthony Moon in Eastenders.
Daniel Jillings, who has appeared in Emmerdale, Coronation Street, Casualty and the Royal.
Waterloo Road actors Jack McMullan, Dean Smith, Naveed Choudry, Reece Douglas, Ben Ryan Davies and Ceallach Spellman.
Hollyoaks stars Anthony Quinlan and Calvin Demba.
Members of the X Factor boyband The Risk and Britain’s Got Talent band The Mend.
West End star Shane Ritchie Jnr, son of Shane Ritchie and Coleen Nolan.
Ex-professional footballers Owen Coyle, Neil Wainwright, Gaizka Mendiata, Marlon Beresford, Ray Francis and Craig Hignett.
They will be facing a team managed by Russell Slade, a former manager of Scarborough AFC, Notts County, Sheffield United, Grimsby Town, Yeovil Town, Brighton and Hove Albion and currently manager of Leyton Orient. His team will consist of players from Bridlington Town, Scarborough Athletic and guest players.
The game is in aid of the Once Upon A Smile Charity, which was set up by Danny Millar and Daniel Jillings to raise money for the families of critically ill children and provide respite services to give families a break from constant caring duties.
Tickets cost £5 for adults, £3 for children and seniors (60+), and £12 for a family ticket (two adults and two children) and are available from West Building Supplies Ltd depots in Bridlington at St John Street, North Beck Lane and Bessingby Way, PBS Construction (North East) Ltd, 361 Anlaby Road, Hull, and also from the Bridlington Town clubhouse.
There are also packages available for sponsorship of the event and also for children to be mascots for the day and details can be obtained from.bridtownafc.com
Bridlington Town are also looking for a team of young mascots for the match. The mascots will walk out of the tunnel on to the pitch with the players and can stay pitch side during the game to be ball boys.
They will be able to meet the soap stars for photographs and autographs, and also join in soccer games on Sunay 26 May.
All children are asked to raise around £40 in sponsorship money and will be provided with a specially printed T-shirt plus three complimentary tickets for the game.
To book, email your child’s name and age to info@pbsconstruction.co.uk and download a sponsorship form from.bridtownafc.com
The evening before the match there will be a karaoke Sing With The Soap Stars in the clubhouse at Queensgate.
Tickets are £12 each, which will include a buffet supper, and the event start at 8pm. They will be available from the club over the weekend of May 18 and 19 or call 606879.
A signed match football from Hull City FC is set to be auctioned off in aid of Kings Mill Special School.
The ball was donated by Hall Brothers Fuels Limited.
Raffle tickets for the auction can be bought from Nafferton Post Office, Drury Sports in Driffield and Serendipity in Bridlington.
They are priced at £1 each, and the draw will be held at the Kings Mill Summer Fayre, on Friday 28 June, from 1.15pm to 2.45pm.
Pictured are pupils from Kings Mill School with the signed ball.
East Yorkshire’s most prolific house burglar has been jailed for six years after being caught targeting homes in Beverley and Lund.
Christopher Harrison, 30, stole £286 in a sneak-in burglary from Robert Palmer in Minster Moorgate, Beverley on April 3. On January 21 he made a similar sneak-in burglary at North Road, Lund, stealing a hand bag from the home of Julia Midgley.
Harrison was stealing to feed his drug habit and has targeted more than 200 homes. He has a record of 160 burglaries and 70 attempted burglaries over a 15-year career.
After early release from prison, Harrison toured East Yorkshire from Mappleton to Howden from January 13 to April 3 this year looking for pensioner’s homes. He burgled ten homes in East Yorkshire and ten in Hull.
Jailing Harrison at Hull Crown Court on Monday 13 May 13, Judge Mark Bury said: “You have a horrid record for house burglary. There comes a point when you must be sentenced for what you have done. You are a career house burglar.”
Harrison of Plane Street, Hull, appeared at Hull Crown Court for sentence after pleading guilty to two burglaries and asking for 33 burglaries and seven thefts to be taken into consideration.
Defence barrister Richard Thompson said: “He has a drug habit. He has shown remorse, unfortunately at the time of these offences he was not able to prioritize his victims interests above his own.”
Harrison was jailed for six years.
Pupils and staff at a primary school grabbed the chance to enjoy the nice weather and held a teddy bears’ picnic.
Nursery and reception year students from Garton on the Wolds Primary School enjoyed a picnic on the school field, and raised £100 for Macmillan Cancer Care.
Lyn Curtis, business manager at the school, said: “It was really nice because the weather stayed good for us.
“They chose Macmillan because it is just one of those charities that is close to their heart.”
The school decided to hold the picnic as the pupils are currently learning about bears at school.
Parents were invited to come along, and bought cakes from the youngsters who had spent time baking them for the picnic.
Improve your game with golf professional Alex Belt, who has made a series of videos with tips on all aspects of golf.
Bridlington Free Press sports editor John Edwards and Driffield Times and Post sports editor Andy Stabler spent a day with him at his base at Oulton Hall.
The school cook at Nafferton Primary School has been awarded a long service award.
Kathryn Blackburn started her time at the local authority in 1987 at Driffield Northfield Infants School. She began at Nafferton in 1994, after also working in Bridlington and at Driffield Junior School.
Sue Galvin, senior catering manager at the council presented her with a certificate and £100 voucher.
Improve your game with golf professional Alex Belt, who has made a series of videos with tips on all aspects of golf.
Bridlington Free Press sports editor John Edwards and Driffield Times and Post sports editor Andy Stabler spent a day with him at his base at Oulton Hall.
Driffield boxer Curtis Woodhouse took just 71 seconds to KO Hungarian Sandor Horvath at Sheffield’s Ponds Forge last night.
The Hungarian came out swinging from the off but it was the Driffield Destroyer who did the damage less than halfway through the first round.
Full reaction in Thursday’s Driffield Times & Post. And check this site later in the week for exclusive video footage.
nullHere’s an invitation difficult to turn down... a trip to the beautiful Cornish coast, courtesy of one of Britain’s best-loved TV presenters.
The Holiday Home, Fern Britton’s third entertaining novel, has all the trademark warmth and charm that we have come to expect from the popular broadcaster who has found fertile ground in funny, feelgood fiction.
This time she sets her sights on fraught family relationships and sibling rivalries, and the hidden secrets that can rock the foundations on which carefully constructed lives are built.
Set amidst the beautiful landscape of Cornwall and filled with an eclectic cast of characters, plenty of sharp observation and some bitter home truths, this is a story packed with drama, tensions and more than a few surprises.
Henry Carew, owner of a successful family board games business, and his wife Dorothy fell in love with Atlantic House, high on a Cornish cliff, about 25 years ago and bought it as a holiday retreat.
Their two daughters, Prudence and Constance, were only teenagers when Atlantic House became the jewel in the family crown and have since spent every summer holiday there at war with each other.
The two women, now in their forties, are as different as vinegar and honey. Pru, the eldest by two years, likes to get her own way and is happy to scheme and connive to make sure that she does while Connie, always second best, finds herself almost permanently outmanoeuvred by her big sister.
Pru is a hard-nosed. combative businesswoman, mother of 16-year-old Jem and married to meek and mild house husband Francis who has dedicated his life to caring for his wife and son. What she doesn’t yet know is she is about to get a shock reminder that you should never take anything for granted.
Meanwhile, Connie, mother of teenager Abigail and loving wife to philandering, arrogant Greg, is tired of always being outwitted by Pru and determined that this year’s holiday will be different. Henry and Dorothy have moved into a bungalow nearby and suspecting that Pru wants to get her hands on Atlantic House, Connie won’t take things lying down.
When an old face reappears on the scene, years of simmering resentments reach boiling point and a long-buried secret returns to bite them all where it hurts.
Is this one holiday that will push them all over the edge, or can Connie and Pru leave the past where it belongs?
An enjoyable blend of comedy, mystery, romance and drama, The Holiday Home is wonderful escapist reading and the ideal book to slip into your suitcase as you head off to find your own holiday sunshine.
(HarperCollins, hardback, £12.99)
Children and adults were evacuated from the Bell Hotel in Driffield after flames reaching eight-foot in height began to engulf the Santander bank in Market Place
On Saturday 18 May the emergency services were called at around 5pm to the blaze, which was caused by gas leaking into an electricity box. The fire was ignited by a spark.
The children at Alykatz Dance Centre were rehearsing for their show on Sunday, and were evacuated to safety.
An eye witness said the flames reached eight foot in height, and produced a thick black smoke.
Two fire engines and 12 fire officers attended the blaze, and the fire was quickly extinguished, however the call was finally signed off by the fire service at 8.40pm.
Did you witness the blaze? Get in touch with us on our website by leaving a comment under this story.
For a full report and reaction to the fire, see this Thursday’s Driffield Times and Post.
Watch the video, taken by our Sports Editor, Andy Stabler, or this footage taken by Alex Ellis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30XSCI5LCRo&feature=youtu.be
A charity auction is set to be held in aid of a village hall and pre-school.
On Saturday 15 June the Wetwang Charity Auction will be held in Wetwang Village Hall and is set to be hosted by auctioneers Dee Atkinson & Harrison.
The viewing will kick off at 4pm with the auction commencing at 6pm.
Artists from the Driffield area, including Robert E Fuller, have donated work to the auction.
Other items include a spa day and tickets to over 20 attractions.
Sabrina Faulkes, a member of the village hall committee, said: “It is so nice to have such support for our hall and pre-school.”
It has been described as the biggest diet revolution since the Atkins, and the Fast Diet is fast becoming THE way to lose weight and keep healthy.
Based on the principle that two days out of every seven should be given over to a low calorie intake, the diet claims to help fight the flab and cut cholestrol and blood sugar levels.
The runaway success of the Fast Diet appears to be its freedoms and flexibility, its simple basic tenets and its much-lauded scientific backing.
But from a psychological point of view, its indisputable attraction is that the low calorie intake (about a quarter of the normal daily recommendation) is limited to only two days a week, leaving the rest of the time blissfully free of diet worry.
And to help dieters stick to only 500 or 600 calories on those all-important ‘fast’ days, there is now a specially designed recipe book with 150 delicious and nutritious calorie-controlled meals to enable you to incorporate the 5:2 weight-loss system into your daily life.
Start your day with a soft boiled egg accompanied by some asparagus spears, tuck into a bowl of porridge sprinkled with ‘jewel’ fruits such as berries and cherries or, if you have more time, cook up a fluffed prawn omelette packed with protein.
Keep your energy levels high all day by breakfasting on a nutritious plate of chicken, broccoli and scrambled eggs or mix up your own muesli and serve with cherries and yoghurt.
For supper, you can look forward to mouth-watering dishes like a super simple aubergine curry, a portion of salmon and ribbon veg, Sarah Raven’s pan-fried lambs’ kidneys with lentils, a truly delicious and lightweight cottage pie topped with celeriac and leek or find comfort in a warming but low calorie winter stew.
If you are in danger of exceeding your calorie limit, treat yourself to a vegetable-packed, 108-calorie ‘allotment soup’ which promises to fill you up as soon as you look at it, or scan the useful index at the back of the book which details recipes in order of calorie count.
And if you simply can’t resist snacking, there are some inspired fast day quick bites like air-popped popcorns, sugar-free jelly pots and plain endamame steamed and served warm with a little rock salt.
There are also detailed menu plans and plenty of encouraging tips, including kitchen-cupboard essentials, the latest nutritional advice and a whole section of speedy meals for busy days.
Beautifully illustrated and with easy to follow instructions, this groundbreaking companion book explains everything you need to know about the rules and guidelines of the Fast Diet as well serving up recipes so delicious that you’ll want to eat them on feast days as well as fast days.
(Short Books, paperback, £14.99)
There’s an ill-wind blowing through the troubled Republic of Niger... and it’s not just the dry, dusty, damaging Harmattan breeze that sweeps in from the Sahara across West Africa.
Gavin Weston’s heart-rending debut novel, inspired by his personal experiences as an aid worker and child sponsor, opens a window onto another world; a harsh, forbidding lanscape where political and civil strife is a way of life, Aids is the principal way of death and children are victims of both.
During his stint as a relief worker in Niger in the late 1980s, Weston witnessed the terrible privations of sub-Saharan Africa but it wasn’t so much the grinding poverty that shocked him as the emotive issue of child-marriage.
As a tribute to the young victims, and particularly the young Nigerien girl sponsored by Weston and his family when he returned to his native Northern Ireland and who abruptly stopped corresponding with them when she was married off at 12, he put pen to paper.
Harmattan, the story of Haoua, a spirited and intelligent girl growing up in a remote village in Niger and facing the kind of odds that are unimaginable in the West, is a truly emotional reading experience, a moving and brutally honest account of poverty, sickness, oppression and shattered dreams.
Eleven-year-old Haoua Boureima lives in the remote village of Wadata in Niger where her father grows millet and sorghum and her mother is a housekeeper. She has a stable home life and a loving and attentive mother, and enjoys working and playing with her brother, sister and their friends.
Haoua is one of the village’s lucky children. Her schooling is being paid for by her sponsor family, Neil Boyd, his wife and twin daughters Katie and Hope from Co Down who are the same age as Haoua. Their photographs and postcards give her a tantalising glimpse of another world, one which she has slowly started to believe could be hers through her dreams of becoming a teacher.
Haoua’s father, entrenched in age-old traditions, disapproves. ‘Educated girls argue with their parents,’ he tells her, but Haoua has an older brother, Abdelkrim, a serving soldier who sends money home to support the family and is a progressive thinker.
When Abdelkrim comes home on leave, the family’s humdrum existence is turned upside down. He has a bitter quarrel with their father, accusing him of gambling away the money he sends and of being the cause of their mother’s worsening health.
‘Your ways are no longer my ways,’ he tells his angry father who, it emerges, is planning to take a second wife.
And for Haoua, there are new storm clouds on the horizon. As civil strife mounts in Niger, she begins to fear for Abdelkrim’s safety, her mother’s illness is much more serious and further advanced than anyone had recognised, and her father’s plans are turning out to be far more threatening than she could have ever imagined.
Approaching her 12th birthday, Haoua is alone and vulnerable for the first time in her life...
Niger’s unforgiving landscape with its parched earth, searing heat and vast palette of colour is beautifully evoked but just as powerful are the raw descriptions of Haoua’s broken life... her challenges, her traumas, her terrible losses and the dreadful destiny shared by so many young girls.
Haoua’s plight is made even more moving by the contrast to the lives of the Irish twins whose comfortable existence in the West is a far cry from the realities of everyday life in Niger.
Weston weaves a brilliantly detailed and dramatic story full of haunting images and unforgettable characters... a vivid and visceral reminder that for some, the promised land is still a distant country.
(Myrmidon Books, paperback, £8.99)
Youngsters at Garton-on-the-Wolds Primary School are ready to travel back in time for their performance at a vintage fair.
The class five students, a mixture of year four, five and six year groups, will take to the stage at Sunday’s Vintage Fair, held at the Spa Bridlington.
After many months of preparation the 17 students will perform a range of 1940s dances and songs, which compliment their study of the World Wars in school.
In addition the children will be treated to a choreography lesson with Strictly Come Dancing choreographer, Hannah Flynn on the day.
Rachel Clough, administrative staff member, at Garton School, said: “They are really excited about it, they do enjoy the performing, but the dance class will especially good.”
The fair, which is the first vintage event to be hosted by the Spa, starts at 10am and tickets are £2.
See next week’s Times & Post for photographs.
Pupils from Driffield Junior School have received a donation of high visibility vests to encourage safety while walking to school.
The donation, made by the Driffield Specsavers Store, was part of Walk to School Week, which runs from Monday 20 May to Friday 24 May.
Mrs Sue Barraclough, head teacher at Driffield Junior School, said: “We are pleased to be the recipients of the hi-visibility vests from the Driffield Specsavers and would like to say a massive thank you.”
Deryck Watts, store director at Driffield Specsavers, said: “As part of the initiative, we are also hoping to raise awareness about free eye tests and glasses that are available to children under 16. It is important to make sure that children have regular eye tests, as an undetected problem could lead to something more severe in the long term.”
Photograph in next week’s Times & Post.
The entries are in and the competition is almost ready to kick off at the annual Wetwang Scarecrow Festival.
On Saturday 26 May Wetwang will play host to a party of scarecrows, which will be on display in the village to help raise money for Wetwang Village Hall.
This year, approximately a third of entries have been submitted from outlying villages, a record for the festival which began 11 years ago.
Melanie Moss, who is part of the team organising the festival, said: “We are just getting everything together to make sure everything is ready for the weekend. This year we are pushing for visiting scarecrow entries, it makes it have a really nice community feel.”
The working group of around eight people have been busy planning this year’s event since January, and will see their efforts in full glory this weekend, with around 50 entries submitted.
The theme this year is nursery rhymes, and Melanie believes it’s a good excuse to unleash your inner child.
“We chose this theme through a vote, we all brought ideas to the table. Last year it was people of the Commonwealth,” said Melanie, who is in her third year helping with the festival.
Judging of the scarecrows will take place on Saturday 26 May, and the festival runs until the following weekend.
Over both weekends a craft fair will be held, along with other events including a raffle, tombola and a treasure hunt map around the village.
Wetwang Primary School have been busy preparing their entry, which is inspired by rhyme The Owl and the Pussy Cat.
Clare Gunn, class teacher, said: “The children are really excited about it. It is a fun exercise, but there is learning that comes out of it, a lot of collaboration and children having to work together.”