Great team effort books final spot
On Saturday Driffield rufc 4th team played host to Hornsea 2nds on in the Merit League semi-final.Playing on the first team pitch in front of a sizeable crowd seemed to spur Driffield on.Hornsea were...
View ArticleDriffield Red Lion 10 Driffield JFC 3rd 2 B. Pannhausen semi-final
DRIFFIELD Red Lion met Division Two opponents Driffield Junior FC at Allotment Lane for this semi-final clash .Minutes before kick off time the heavens opened and flooded an already sodden pitch even...
View ArticleMulti-vehicle smash on Driffield by-pass
EMERGENCY services have been at the scene of a multi-vehicle crash on the A614 Driffield by-pass.The main road has been closed for much of the afternoon (Friday April 27) following a collision...
View ArticleBook review: Second World War Infantry Tactics by Stephen Bull
‘Battles and wars are not won unless the infantry is standing on the land that once belonged to the enemy. They live under the hardest conditions and suffer the most danger. It is the pits, a place to...
View ArticleSheffield FC have appointed Driffield’s Curtis Woodhouse as the new first...
Curtis, a pro-boxer and former pro-footballer who counts Sheffield United, Birmingham City and Hull City among his former clubs, will announce his backroom staff in due course. He played for Sheffield...
View ArticleBook review: The Time Traveller’s Guide to Elizabethan England by Ian Mortimer
Climb into the passenger seat, sit back and join time traveller Ian Mortimer on a journey into some of the rotten truths about the much-heralded Elizabethan age...You’ll find the usual high-profile...
View ArticleLeague loses a true gent
THE FOOTBALL community is mourning the death of a long-serving local league official.John Burchett, who was secretary of the Driffield and District Football League, died in the early hours of last...
View ArticleEvening Cup
Driffield’s 1st XI lost their first game of the season to a strong Scarborough side but did not go doen without a fight.On a less than ideal day for cricket, Driffield batted first and scored a very...
View ArticleChapel dedication
The Bishop of Hull, the Rt Revd Richard Frith, will dedicate a new RAF Chapel at St Catherine’s Church, Leconfield, on Sunday May 6.The RAF Memorial in St Catherine’s Church, which was the church for...
View ArticleMulti-vehicle smash on A164
TWO people were rushed to hospital after a multi-vehicle smash on the Driffield Bypass.A large section of the busy main road was closed for several hours as emergency services attended the scene of the...
View ArticleHOAX caller revenge bid
AN UNEMPLOYED Driffield man made hoax calls to the emergency services in revenge against a neighbour for an alleged hate campaign waged against his mother, a court heard.Nicky Peter Jobson, 21, of Star...
View ArticleTasting success
A GARTON-on-the Wolds company has scooped a national award for its pies.Rose Cottage Pies received the championship award for its beef and mushroom pie in the beef pie class at the annual British Pie...
View ArticleDefying gravity
SKATERS and BMX riders in Driffield have been defying gravity thanks to a special event held at the town’s skatepark.Pictured are some of those who attended an Airbag event at Skateopia, on Skerne Road...
View ArticleCar thief in court
A MAN who stole a car in Driffield and sold it for scrap has been ordered by a court to pay out over £200.Appearing before magistrates in Bridlington last Wednesday James Webster, 24, of Cherry Avenue,...
View ArticleBook review: Chocolate Shoes and Wedding Blues by Trisha Ashley
Easing yourself into a Trisha Ashley novel is rather like slipping into a comfortable – but very sparkly – pair of shoes.So how apt that her new warm, wise and winsome winner dishes up everything a...
View ArticleBook review: The Nameless Dead by Brian McGilloway
The Troubles in Northern Ireland have rarely proved an attractive proposition for novelists, and Derry author and teacher Brian McGilloway’s ‘no frills’ crime thriller series set in the notoriously...
View ArticleHoax caller branded ‘foolish and childish’
A MAN who made hoax calls to the emergency services in revenge against his neighbour has been branded “foolish” and “childish” by a court before being slapped with a suspended prison sentence.Nicky...
View ArticleCharity bike ride for Ben
A Beverley man is preparing to embark on a 146 mile cycle ride to raise money for Ben Hodgson, an 11-year-old Driffield boy who suffers from muscular dystrophy.John Hearn, 58, will begin his charity...
View ArticleBook review: The Murder of Halland by Pia Juul
You can always rely on Peirene Press to get the grey matter moving...Their classy, culturally rich novellas bring us the best of contemporary European writing and prove that small really is...
View ArticleBook review: The History Room by Eliza Graham
Curiouser and curiouser, Alice in Wonderland would have remarked if she had wandered through the intriguing plotlines in Eliza Graham’s haunting new novel.The History Room is a clever and compelling...
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