away trip to end year
DRIFFIELD fought back last week with a fine second half performance to beat North Ribblesdale.And this week they will be looking to build on that second half when they travel to play second bottom...
View ArticleWin takes Rangers up to third place
Driffield Rangers travelled to Beverley Leisure Centre for the second week running but this time to take on Molescroft Rangers looking to end the calendar year on a high.Manager Shaun Walker was...
View ArticleThirds triumph in local derby
Driffield started with a much changed youthful side for a fixture against their local rivals. Beverley brought an experienced side.The first half saw Driffield spend much time camped in the opposition...
View ArticleExhibition success
WILDLiFE artist John Naylor is celebrating in the wake of a successful winter exhibition in Driffield.Mr Naylor put several dozen original pictures on display during a three day event at The Exchange,...
View ArticleAllotments are very good value
COUNCIl allotment rents in Driffield are among the cheapest and best value in East Yorkshire.The town council has recently agreed that rent for full plots should rise from £15 to £20 a year, with the...
View Article134 years service
sEven loyal staff at The Altisidora, Bishop Burton, have clocked up a whopping 134 years service between them with the same pub company.Manager Diane Birdsall is one of three staff celebrating 24 years...
View ArticleSchool’s new centre is ACE
Students and staff from Driffield School and Sixth Form invited guests and learners from across the area to celebrate the official opening of the new Art, Community and Enterprise Centre on the school...
View ArticleThe Only Way is Sammy’s!
A FORMER Driffield School pupil’s home-made jewellery has become a big hit with stars of the ITV2 show, The Only Way is Essex (TOWIE).Samantha Leason, 21, who began making jewellery for herself as a...
View ArticleBook review: Cuckoo by Julia Crouch
‘Nothing is what it seems’... Julia Crouch’s dark novel sheds a new and disturbing light on the age-old maxim.There’s another saying that ‘an Englishman’s home is his castle’... and one about ‘a friend...
View ArticleWalk’s glowing success
CHILDREN from a Driffield playgroup have been lighting up the town centre.Accompanied by parents and staff, youngsters from Driffield Methodist Playgroup have taken part in a Lantern Walk.The children...
View ArticleMast plan blown out
A COUNCIL decision to refuse permission for a wind monitoring mast at Nafferton has been praised by countryside campaigners.East Riding of Yorkshire Council has rejected a planning application from...
View ArticleDriffield gets new vicar
A NEW vicar has been appointed for Driffield.On Sunday December 18 it was announced in church that the Rev Andrew Ison is to be the new vicar of All Saints’ Driffield with St Mary’s Little Driffield.He...
View ArticleCycling towards business success
FORMER Driffield School pupil Jon Dean has scooped up a top award at The York Evening Press Business Awards 2011.Jon, 41, is the owner of CycleStreet (York) Ltd. in Heworth near York, and was announced...
View ArticleOld Bailey trial: Woman cleared of ‘brutal murder’
A FORMER Northfield Infant School pupil has been cleared of a murder which involved the victim being tortured with a red-hot poker.Corrina Lowe, 28, stood trial at the Old Bailey, in London alongside...
View ArticleBe safe, be seen! - POLICE BEAT
To those of us who are parents, the most obvious answer to the question “What is the most valuable thing to you?” is “my kids”.As they grow up, we the take time and effort to guide, help and protect...
View ArticleBook review: The Duke is Mine by Eloisa James
When a girl’s betrothal springs not from love or greed (the two usual suspects) but from a curse, you know this story is not going to be a run-of-the-mill romance.In fact, The Duke is Mine is more a...
View ArticleBook review: Dickens’s Victorian London by Alex Werner and Tony Williams
‘Wealth and beggary, vice and virtue, guilt and innocence, repletion and the direst hunger ... the great heart of London throbs in its Giant breast.’So wrote Charles Dickens, the great 19th century...
View ArticleBook review: Selection of Macmillan Children’s Books
As a new school term gets underway, the youngest members of the family are heading off to the library to find the pick of the new crop of books.And Macmillan Children’s Books have some new and exciting...
View ArticleTurning the winter corner
Although winter has apparently only just begun in the human world, a walk around the countryside will suggest that this is actually the beginning of Spring.Not long into January, and particularly with...
View ArticleMan stole drink out of guilt
A MAN tried to steal a bottle of whiskey from a Driffield supermarket days before Christmas after he spent a fortnight’s worth of benefits cash on a week-long drug binge, a court has heard.Benjamin...
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