Book review: The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
Draw the curtains, throw a log on the fire and cosy up with one of the most bewitching books likely to come your way this year.So what it’s all about, the debut novel that has been causing a buzz in...
View ArticleBook review: The Secret Children by Alison McQueen
James MacDonald is a son of the British Empire, a rich tea planter in India with a distinguished family history ... the lives of his two beautiful daughters should be mapped out for comfort and...
View ArticleExpansion plans look set for green light
PLANS by a recession beating firm to expand their storage facilities at a Brandesburton Industrial Estate look set to be given the go ahead today.This is despite objections from several local...
View ArticlePolice target area’s illegal drivers
UNINSURED and unlicensed drivers are the focus of a forcewide roads policing campaign being run by Humberside Police throughout February.Officers will be carrying out targeted stop checks of vehicles...
View ArticleSuspended sentence
DRIVING his son to hospital whilst disqualified has landed a motorist with a suspended prison sentence.George Brankin appeared at Bridlington Magistrates Court last week charged with driving whilst...
View ArticleSociety’s lifeboat lift
Yorkshire Building Society has announced that they will be raising funds for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) in 2012.The Society’s Charitable Foundation will also make a significant...
View ArticleBook review: Rival Passions by Zoë Miller
In the teeming market of romantic fiction, a clever, classy page-turner always acts like a breath of fresh air.And they don’t come with more pizazz than Rival Passions, the second glitzy novel from...
View ArticleParking scheme is waste of time
PLANS to create a series of “advisory car share spaces” in several of Driffield’s car parks have been branded as an unworkable waste of time by the town council.The East Riding of Yorkshire Council is...
View ArticleMan denies stealing from party
A MAN has denied stealing a number of items from a new year’s eve party in Hutton Cranswick.Sam Thomas Enwright, 20, of Silverdale Avenue, Walton-on-Thames, in Surrey, appeared at Bridlington...
View ArticleAllotment thief is sentenced
A MAN who committed a spate of break-ins at allotments across East Yorkshire last summer has been ordered to complete unpaid work.Mark Richard Ferriby, of Colescliffe Road, Scarborough said he was...
View ArticleBook review: Felling the Ancient Oaks by John Martin Robinson
For some of England’s most historic estates, the current imperative to preserve our past has come far too late.A case in point is Lancashire’s old estate of Lathom, near Ormskirk, which had at its...
View ArticleNew MEP for Yorkshire
The Liberal Democrats have confirmed the new MEP for Yorkshire and the Humber will be Rebecca Taylor following the resignation of Diana Wallis.Ms Taylor said: “It is a great privilege and honour to...
View ArticleStolen Hull, East Yorkshire, 1927 railway train disaster plaque to be...
Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust is to replace a plaque marking the site of the City’s worst ever railway accident which occurred in 1927.Chief Executive Phil Morley will attend the...
View ArticleBook review: The Other Life by Susanne Winnacker
The tenderness of a teenage girl’s sexual awakening played out against a city stalked by savage mutants ... it’s a love affair to die for!Susanne Winnacker’s perfectly pitched young adult novel takes...
View ArticleCouncil tax set to be frozen
EAST Riding councillors are today set to approve accepting a Government grant allowing them to freeze council tax this year.East Riding of Yorkshire Council will vote today (Thursday) whether to accept...
View ArticleBook review: You Deserve Nothing by Alexander Maksik
Will Silver is the archetypal inspirational teacher, a classic combination of Mr Chips, Muriel Sparks’ Jean Brodie and John Keating of the Dead Poets’ Society.He’s a hero to his impressionable and...
View ArticleCOUNCIL TAX FROZEN FOR THIRD YEAR
The East Riding of Yorkshire Council tax charge will be frozen for the third consecutive year (1 April 2012 – 31 March 2013) following decisions taken by elected members at a meeting of Full Council on...
View ArticleSchool hockey team reach regional finals
For the second year running Nafferton Primary School’s Boy’s Under 11 hockey team have made it through to the regional finals of the ‘In2Hockey’ tournament, run by England Hockey.Taking on a number of...
View ArticleSeason off to a great start
Driffield Swimming Club got the swim season off to a great start by competing in the first leg of the East Coast League.The club won the league last year so this season were coming out fighting. This...
View Articlelast four of senior cup
DESPITE the terrible weather on Saturday – and nearly all football and rugby games being postponed – Driffield Rangers made a worthwhile trip to Easington in the quarter-finals of the Senior Country...
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