What a toy story!
Mr Hoggle Doggle, the toy rehoming charity launched in East Yorkshire last year by Kilnwick couple David and Clare Allan, has passed a major milestone when it received the 10,000th toy to be donated...
View ArticleNew rock challenge
Building on the success of the Humberside Police Rock Challenge performing arts competition which involves over 3,500 young people each year, organisers have announced the introduction of the inaugural...
View ArticleThe cycling clergyman
DRIFFIELD’S new vicar plans to take to two wheels to meet his parishioners.On Monday, the Rev Andrew Ison was inducted as vicar of a new group of churches comprising All Saints’ Driffield, St Mary’s...
View ArticleNew vicar’s induction
The Rev Andrew Ison has been inducted as the new vicar of All Saints’ Church, Driffield, with St Mary’s, Little Driffield, and St Peter’s Church, Langtoft, with Foxholes, St Nicholas Butterwick, Cottam...
View ArticleFuel thieves hit villages
FUEL thieves stole diesel and heating oil worth several thousand pounds during two raids in the Driffield area.Police said that approximately 400 litres of diesel fuel were siphoned from six vehicles...
View ArticleFamily history
AN eight week family history course is set to begin at the Treasure House, Beverley, this month.The course will be held on Thursday evenings, starting on Thursday, April 26. The total cost is £42,...
View ArticleEnter a MADD world
An amateur dramatics group are putting on a nostalgic, one off concert which will bring British wartime spirit back to Driffield and raise money for charity.Methodist Amateur Dramatics Driffield (MADD)...
View ArticleBook review: Chorley Borough Through Time by Jack Smith
PROGRESS has not always been kind to Chorley, a Lancashire market town since medieval times and once part of a royal forest that stretched from Bowland in the north to Bolton in the south.If evidence...
View Articlebig derby first game
Cricket returns to the sporting programme after its winter break with three of Driffield’s five teams hoping to make a winning start to the season.The first team, once again led by David Brent, travel...
View ArticleYour say on rural issues
PEOPLE who live in villages around Driffield are to be given the chance to voice their opinion about issues which affect their daily lives.A series of fact finding meetings have been organiseed in...
View ArticleBook review: The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks
JUST as all that King Midas touched turned to gold so almost every book that Nicholas Sparks writes seems destined for the big screen.Six novels, The Last Song, Dear John, Nights in Rodanthe, Message...
View ArticleBook review: Call Me Drog and other spring sparklers from Usborne Children’s...
Most books fall neatly into genres – fantasy, horror, mystery, history, romance – but there are others which defy such simple categorisation.Take Sue Cowing’s highly original and fascinatingly creepy...
View ArticleBurglary at house
POLICE are investigating a burglary that happened at a house on Eastgate South, Driffield between 9.55am and 12.20pm on Wednesday April 18.Various DVDs, Playstation 2 games and gold cufflinks were...
View ArticleFuel theft denied
A MAN has denied stealing more than £17,000 from a Foxholes fuel company.Sean Perry, 29, has pleaded not guilty to taking £17,638.33 from Watson Wood Fuels and will stand trial at York Crown Court on...
View ArticleLions car boot sale
DRIFFIELD Lions are to hold their annual Car Boot Sale at Sunderlandwick Farm Shop, Kelleythorpe on Sunday May 27.The sale, which takes place from 9am to 1pm, is expected to attracted around 45 stalls...
View ArticleSchool places set
Parents and carers of children starting primary school in September have been told which school their child will be attending.East Riding of Yorkshire Council received 3,186 applications for places at...
View ArticleBook review: This Country Business by Max Hardcastle
Wit, grit and plenty of slapstick ... true Yorkshireman Max Hardcastle is back with the third instalment of his madcap memoir of life in the Dales.Thousands of readers already feel at home with...
View ArticleWoman dies in East Yorkshire crash
A WOMAN has died in a crash involving a Ministry of Defence goods vehicle.Police have appealed for witnesses to the collision which happened don the A161, one mile south of Swinefleet, near Goole at...
View ArticleBusinessman in crush tragedy
TRIBUTES have been paid to the managing director of civil engineering firm who died when he became trapped under a tipping trailer.Ian Woolfitt, 68, of Lund was killed in the incident in Station Road,...
View ArticleA holiday to remember!
Twelve members of Driffield Town Cricket Club have just returned from a holiday to remember, for very different reasons!They booked their holiday to Sri Lanka to coincide with the final Test Match...
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