MP calls for action on speed
DRIFFIELD’S MP Greg Knight is calling on the Government to make greater use of variable speed limits. Currently, in built-up areas such as those around Driffield, most speed limits are permanent and in...
View ArticleBook review: An Honourable Man by Gillian Slovo
General Charles Gordon, better known as the legendary Gordon of Khartoum, is the unlikely hero of a powerful and emotive new novel from a writer noted for her socialist feminist crime stories.Ice Road,...
View ArticleThefts from 17 vans
POLICE have appealed for help in trying to locate a man they want to speak to in connection with the theft of catalytic converters from vans at an industrial estate.Detectives want to speak to Ethan...
View ArticleVillage’s speed threat action
A petition signed by 220 Burton Fleming residents expressing concern at the village’s speeding problem has been presented to the council.The petition, organised by the Burton Fleming Speed Awareness...
View ArticlePOLICE RELEASE CCTV IMAGES OF A MAN FOLLOWING HIGH VALUE JEWELLERY THEFT
POLICE have released CCTV images of a man they are trying to locate following a high value robbery at Griffins Jewellers, Prospect Street, Bridlington on Saturday 21 January 2012. Between 1245hrs and...
View ArticleGail Porter chills out in East Yorkshire
Gail Porter is famous for presenting numerous television programmes, having her bare behind displayed on the Houses of Parliament and losing her hair to alopecia. But last year Gail hit the headlines...
View ArticleBook review: The Map by T.S. Learner
Mystery, history, war and mysticism are always a potent mix but place them in the capable hands of thriller writer T.S.Learner and they become a work of pure alchemy.Her debut, Sphinx, was a...
View ArticleBlogger’s 10-year ASBO
A PENSIONER who once claimed to be “the Private Eye of Humberside” by running his own online blog has been slapped with an Anti-Social Behaviour Order for 10 years to protect the public.Judge Fred...
View ArticleHandbag and keys stolen from house
A HANDBAG and set of car keys were stolen from inside a house in Nafferton.The items were stolen between 8.30am and 1.30pm on Sunday 22 January, from the kitchen of the detached house, on Middle...
View ArticleDriver stuck on train line
A MOTORIST ended up stuck across railway lines after driving over a level crossing while the barriers were being lowered, a court has heard.Teresa Shakespeare, 54, of Skerne pleaded guilty to driving a...
View ArticleIll discipline costs Driffield the game
It was a cold, blustery and at times rainy day at Keighley, but the hospitality at this club was excellent.Driffield played the same back line that was selected last week, but in the forwards...
View ArticleGreat effort from seconds
Driffield travelled up to Grassington to play Wharfedale with a much changed line-up from the week before.With cry-offs Friday evening only 15 players could be mustered for the hardest game of the...
View ArticleBook review: Matron on Call by Joan Woodcock
One minute you can be saving someone’s life, the next stemming a simple nosebleed or getting to grips with an aggressive drunk ... there’s never a dull moment in a busy hospital casualty...
View ArticleCrimes are confessed
A TRAINEE joiner who stole 22 car number plates and hid them behind his garden shed handed himself into police after finding religion, a court has heard.Five months after Adam Thomas Burdall, 21, of...
View ArticleThe Wilfholme war horse
A WILFHOLME livery yard has produced an unlikely film star in the form of dressage horse, Faldo.Faldo, a dressage horse who was trained in events and dressage at Molineux competition and livery yard in...
View ArticleThreats to kill after row
A MAN who threatened to kill his ex-partner, and smashed up her mobile phone in an argument, has been given a restraining order.Darren Tommy Ross, 21, of Harper Street, Driffield pleaded guilty to...
View ArticleHelp for Heroes
Driffield Leisure Centre will be hosting a 5km sponsored run on Sunday, April 29 at 9.30am in aid of Help 4 Heroes.Sponsor forms are now available from the Driffield Leisure Centre reception and the...
View ArticleSay no to cancer
The NHS in Yorkshire and the Humber region is helping more people to give up smoking.New figures released by the NHS Information Centre show that 18,155 people kicked the habit between April and...
View ArticleHospital roadworks
WORK is set to begin this week to create road junctions, a pedestrian crossing, footpaths and cycleways at the new Community Hospital for the East Riding, which will take patients from Driffield and...
View ArticleTimetable change for buses no go
A BUS company has rebuffed pleas to change its timetable so that pensioners can use their bus passes for early morning journeys.Driffield Town Council had asked EYMS to consider altering the timings of...
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