The art of giving
Beverley gallery Creation Fine Arts and artist Nick Matson joined forces to help raise money for Dove House Hospice.An original drawing and canvas copy of the painting “Love Boat” from the recent...
View ArticleMoving on up
ONE young Nafferton couple have started the New Year in a new home.Josh Barker and Liana Ebrahimzadeh have taken the next step on the property ladder, purchasing their second home at Beal Homes’...
View ArticleHelping disabled people find work
Graham Stuart, the MP for Beverley and Holderness, has welcomed the Government’s announcement of more support for small businesses and disabled entrepreneurs that will pay for specialised equipment and...
View Article£5.000 benefit fraud
A Beverley resident has received a criminal record after admitting benefit fraud.Deborah Westmorland, aged 47, of Rosedale Walk, Beverley, appeared before Beverley Magistrates.She pleaded guilty to...
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...
View ArticlePrecept to remain same
DRIFFIELD town council has set its budget for the next financial year and decided that there should be no rise in the amount of precept it asks people to pay as part of their overall council tax...
View ArticleBook review: Triathlon Manual by Sean Lerwill
On a weekday evening in September 1974, 46 enthusiastic young men lined up at Mission Bay, a saltwater lagoon near San Diego in California, to test their endurance in a new athletic event.The Mission...
View ArticleEquipment stolen
Valuable equipment owned by a tree surgeon has been stolen from a property on Main Street, Ulrome.The crime happened between Friday, December 29 and Friday January 4, when someone walked into the rear...
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