Book review: The Weeping Girl by Håkan Nesser
The renowned Chief Inspector Van Veeteren might now be retired and ensconced in an antiquarian bookshop but his voice still speaks loud to his young protégé Ewa Moreno as she is drawn into a disturbing...
View ArticleSchool trip netted a great success
Netball players from Driffield School recently travelled to Spain to take part in a tournament against other schools.The Easter Netball Tour saw five teams from the school train and compete against...
View ArticleCOUNCIL WELCOME TRANSPORT SECRETARY PATRICK MCLOUGHLIN FOR COMPLETION OF A164...
The Rt Hon Patrick McLoughlin MP, Secretary of State for Transport, is today visiting the East Riding to mark the completion of highway works on the A164 and speak to users of the council’s Wheels to...
View ArticleDog crèche offers range of services
A local dog creche established with the help of the Princes Trust are offering free places to guide dogs, hearing dogs and assistance dogs.The Paw Pad, Skerne Road, offers a variety of services...
View ArticleBook review: The Hope Factory by Lavanya Sankaran
Bangalore... southern India’s entrepreneurial boom city where tradition and technology, ancient cultures and industrial conglomerates, urban grime and suburban grace rub along together amidst a teeming...
View ArticleA fleecy fund raiser for hospice charity
Onesies were donned and over £250 raised by a team of charity shop staff in a week-long fund raiser.The team at Dove House Hospice, Middle Street South, Driffield, are still collecting in sponsorship...
View ArticleFun at freaky Friday fancy dress day
Pupils at a primary school enjoyed a day of fancy dress in which boys and girls swapped fashion tastes.The Freaky Friday event, which is part of a series of fancy dress days organised by the school,...
View ArticleYoung vandals target garden
Humberside Police are investi gating two incidents of criminal damage believed to have the same perpetrator.Around 2.15pm on Saturday 11 May a group of youths were seen dismantling a brick wall in the...
View ArticleDriver warned over possession
A male driver has been given a formal warning after being found to be in possession.At around 8.40pm on Tuesday 30 April four male youths were seen by police, in a parked car on Lowthorpe Lane,...
View ArticleGetting fit and raising money
A morning of energetic fund raising generated over £500 for charity.Zumba was on the cards for shoppers in Driffield on Saturday morning, as one enthusiastic instructor spent three hours teaching the...
View ArticleRevellers flock to vintage fair
Thousands of people turned out to enjoy the second annual vintage fair held by an air cadet squadron.The Driffield 873 Air Cadet Squadron arranged the fair, which was attended by over 6,000 people and...
View ArticleMan injured in roof collapse
A York firm that fits solar panels has been prosecuted after an employee fell four metres through the fragile roof of a pig shed at a farm in Cranswick.The worker, who does not want to be named, had...
View ArticleMurder accused to face jury trial
A FORMER computer-ink salesman accused of the murder of Full Sutton businessman Peter Battle in his rural cottage has elected to stand trial.Mr Graham Richardson, 26, of Riverside View in Norton, made...
View ArticleWheelie good fund raiser
A team of enthusiastic amateur cyclists will undertake an 180 mile bike ride in aid of various charities.Between Friday 24 May and Sunday 26 May the group will ride from Morecambe to Bridlington along...
View ArticlePolice investigate vandalised door
Humberside Police are investigating damage to a Driffield solicitor’s door.Between the evening of Friday 26 April and the morning of Monday 29 April the newly repaired, wooden door of William’s...
View ArticleCommissioner to clamp down on rural crime
The police and crime commissioner for Humberside has moved to warn poachers of the consequences for their actions.While visiting Driffield on Thursday 9 May, Matthew Grove spoke about clamping down on...
View ArticleRobert Mark Eric Barr
A funeral service was held at the East Riding Crematorium, Octon on Wednesday, May 8 for Mr Robert Mark Eric Barr (formerly of New Road,Driffield), who died peacefully in Northfield Manor Nursing Home...
View ArticleSteven William Proudlock
A funeral service was held at the East Riding Crematorium, Octon on Thursday, May 9 for Steven William Proudlock of Garton on the Wolds who died in St James Hospital, Leeds on April 29. He was 35.The...
View ArticleWilliam Gilbert (Gil) Appleby
A funeral service was held at the Methodist Church, Nafferton on Tuesday, May 7 for Mr William Gilbert (Gil) Appleby of Sycamore Close, Nafferton who died in hospital on April 25. He was 90.The service...
View ArticleA blooming good event
Almost £100 was raised at a plant sale organised by Driffield in Bloom to fund the town’s summer planting.The sale took place on Saturday 11 May in the Gravel Garden next to Driffield Railway Station....
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