Why not take a friend fishing this Easter Bank Holiday
The take a friend fishing campaign, organised and run by the Angling Trades Association, is back to encourage parents, grandparents and friends to take the time over the Easter break to give family...
View ArticleANOTHER LEAGUE SATURDAY MISSED FOR DRIFFIELD
The bad weather took its toll right across the whole of England with many league games being postponed. The North was particularly badly hit and in Driffield’s league, Yorkshire one, only two games...
View ArticleSIN BIN TV: Super League Round 9 and Round 10 preview
Check out the latest edition of The Sin Bin as the lads look ahead to both round 9 and round 10 of Super League games over the Bank Holiday period.Round 9 sees Leeds Rhinos take on Bradford Bulls while...
View ArticleBeverley First Probus Club
The speaker at our March luncheon meeting, held at Tickton Grange, was M/s Ruth Bamforth, daughter of our President, Stuart Bamforth.A lawyer specialising in pension schemes, Ruth chose as her subject:...
View ArticleBook review: The Heretics by Rory Clements
As the curtain rises on the fifth – and hopefully not final – act of Rory Clements’ prize-winning John Shakespeare Elizabethan mystery series, there are whispers of a new stage set for the Tudor spy’s...
View ArticleCall for fair funding
As negotiations continue on the EU budget from 2014 onwards, the regions Liberal Democrat MEPs Edward McMillan-Scott and Rebecca Taylor have been battling hard to make sure Yorkshire and the Humber is...
View ArticleLeconfield Sea Kings sold off
Search and Rescue Helicopters based at RAF Leconfield will no longer operate from the site after a deal was signed with a US company to replace the Sea King fleet.The move comes after a £1.6 billion...
View ArticleBook review: The Safest Place by Suzanne Bugler
Jane Berry once considered her two-up two-down London terraced home to be the height of sophistication... but 15 years of cramped living and two children later, she is ready to escape to the...
View ArticleBook review: The Promise by Ann Weisgarber
In September 1900, a devastating hurricane hit the island city of Galveston in Texas. The storm surge killed over 6,000 people and is still on record as the deadliest natural disaster in American...
View ArticleSalvation Army celebrates milestone
A celebration to mark nine years of work done at a Driffield outreach centre will take place.Members of the Driffield Salvation Army are getting ready to commemorate the opening of The Outreach Centre...
View ArticleWhy Grand National is at crossroads -- or even Canal Turn
STAND by for the most famous horse-race in the world, the Grand National, this coming Saturday. But as our resident racing expert and tipster RICHARD SILVERWOOD explains, this year’s renewal is under...
View ArticlePartnership holds annual meeting
Driffield Partnership will be holding their annual general meeting on Monday, 29th April 29 at the town council offices on Market Walk. The meeting will look back on Driffield Partnership’s...
View ArticleGRAND NATIONAL: your guide to all the runners
IT’S the day when everyone has a flutter. Grand National Day. Aintree racecourse. 40 runners. 30 fences. Four and a half miles. And only one winner.But who will that winner be this coming Saturday? To...
View ArticleQuacky racers in wildlife trust event
A well loved duck race which was postponed at New Year due to low water levels took place last weekend.On Easter Saturday groups of spectators congregated along Driffield Beck to watch fleets of rubber...
View ArticleBurglary , arson in local villages
Police are investigating the burglary of an outbuilding in Bewholme between midnight on Tuesday March 26 and noon the following day, when an insecure outbuilding on a farm site was entered and various...
View ArticleBreak in at model boat clubhouse
Police are investigating a burglary at the Model Boat Club, Carnaby Industrial Estate,between 2pm on Thursday March 28 and 8am the following day when someone climbed over the gates to the compound and...
View ArticlePolice investigate Nafferton crimes
Humberside Police are investigating two incidents which took place on The Maltings in Nafferton.Between 11pm on Thursday 28 March and 2.40am on Friday 29 March a silver Ford Fiesta parked outside of...
View ArticleMotor show first for Driffield show site
The people behind the award-winning Driffield Show are hosting their first ever motor show over the weekend of May 25 and 26.Ashley Godber, of Adrenaline Advertising Ltd, said: “This is the perfect...
View ArticleFunding available for education
The Edge Foundation, which champions technical, practical and vocational education, is making funding available for schools, colleges and learning providers in the North East to help raise awareness of...
View ArticleZero tolerance on dog fouling
Councillor Mally Boatman is calling on East Riding of Yorkshire Council to adopt a zero-tolerance approach when dealing with people who don’t clean up after their dogs.At a Full Council meeting...
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