Troway home with outbuildings
Extensive grounds, with barns and outbuildings ripe for conversion, are the setting for this substantial four-bedroom home, on the market at £699,950.The property, at 41 Snowdon Lane, Troway, Sheffield...
View ArticleScooter stolen
THIEVES stole a child’s Osprey stunt scooter in green and blue from outside the Tesco store in Morton Lane, Beverley.The scooter was secured with a bicycle lock to the cycle rack between 1.30pm and 3pm...
View ArticleThousands for charity
THE SPIRIT of Christmas generosity abounded in Driffield this year as the town’s rotary club collected over £2000 for charity.The Santa Claus sleigh ride beat its target of £2000 with the sum of...
View ArticleBook review: Oliver Fibbs: Attack of the Alien Brain by Steve Hartley
Lancashire children’s author Steve Hartley has been voted ‘Coolest Dude of the Year’ for five years running, so it’s always best to expect the unexpected when you open one of his amazing books.The...
View ArticleA night on the TOWIE
The only way was Slimming World for reality star Mark Wright when he met Katie Trever at the weight-loss organisation’s annual awards ceremony to celebrate its most successful slimmers.Katie, who...
View ArticleFamily’s gun blast ordeal
A CONVICTED sex offender blasted a 20-bore shotgun through the living-room window of a house of those he blamed for spreading news that he was a paedophile.Two-days after Adrian Thorsby, 49, was...
View ArticleCommunity theatre at St Nick’s
A new community theatre is underway at St Nicholas Community Centre, Holmechurch Lane, Beverley, and a new musical theatre group will be using it as their home.Beverley Youth Theatre @ St Nicks meet on...
View ArticleBeverley Round Tablle
Beverley Round Table is looking forward to welcoming new members as people look to make changes to their lives in 2013.It’s not just shops with sales that experience a January rush. As the tinsel and...
View ArticleCrowds support Holderness Hunt
CROWDS gathered in Beverley on Boxing Day to enjoy the Holderness Hunt Boxing Day meet.The Hunt, which draws in the crowds annually on December 26, saw around 20 huntsmen take part.Charles Clark lead...
View ArticleBook review: Marked by David Jackson
Scourge of the NYPD, an enigma to his own family, Detective Callum Doyle lives life on the edge...Obsessive, hot-headed, rude and abrasive, he broods, snarls and glowers, but the violence that bubbles...
View ArticleGeorge Edwin Grey-Nicholson
A funeral service was held at the East Riding Crematorium on Monday January 7 for the late Mr George Edwin ‘Ted’ Grey-Nicholson of Great Kelk who died suddenly at home on 22nd December. He was 66.The...
View ArticleJSR’s golden touch
Staff at Southburn-based JSR are celebrating after the company was awarded the prestigious Investors in People Gold Standard.Investors in People (IIP) Gold is a demanding standard that sets out a...
View ArticleBREAKING NEWS: School closures due to snow
HEAVY snowfall has caused disruption for schools this morning with several in the area closed.Kilham Primary School has announced it is closed today due to the weather, as well as Driffield Junior...
View ArticleBook review: Animal (and other) magic from Scholastic Children’s Books
Chase away those January blues with Scholastic’s colourful collection of children’s books which includes an exciting new series based on real-life animal rescues.Whether it’s a little lost hedgehog, a...
View ArticleCouncil vacancy
A VACANCY has arisen on Nafferton Parish Council.A by-election to fill the vacancy will be held if 10 electors of the parish write to the chief executive of East Riding of Yorkshire Council at County...
View ArticleBook review: The Pillow Book of the Flower Samurai by Barbara Lazar
The dazzling but brutal world of 12th century Japan springs into glorious life through the bizarre destiny of one young peasant girl in Barbara Lazar’s sumptuous new novel.Kozaishō is Fifth Daughter of...
View ArticleBook review: School’s Out! by Jack Sheffield
As a new term begins at a tiny North Yorkshire primary school in September 1983, headmaster Jack Sheffield feels that familiar mix of excitement and trepidation.There’s a fresh intake to settle in, a...
View ArticleMrs Betty Weekes
A funeral service was held at the East Riding Crematorium on Friday January 11 for Mrs Betty Weekes of the Glenfield Residential Home who died peacefully in Glenfield on 6th January. She was aged...
View ArticleIan Sinton
A funeral service was held at the East Riding Crematorium on Friday January 4 for Mr Ian Sinton of Watton who died on December 20. He was aged 44 years.The service was conducted by Mr David Keating.Ian...
View ArticleMr Robert Gladstone
A funeral service was held at the East Riding Crematorium, Octon on Wednesday January 9 for Mr Robert Gladstone of Northfield Avenue, Driffield who died in The Limes Residential Home in Driffield on...
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