Striders women move up a place after producing top times
Driffield Striders women moved up a place to fifth after the second race in the East Yorkshire Cross Country League.It was an impressive day for the club, with 18 runners turning out for the sticky...
View ArticleNext year’s Cycle Sportive
Entries for next year’s Heart of the Wolds Cycle Sportive are now being accepted.This cycle challenge will be held on Sunday, April 27Orgainsers were were really pleased with the positive comments from...
View ArticlePumas keep the momentum goings as they get the better of Tickton Tigers
Driffield Pumas U10 2Tickton Tigers U10 2The Pumas hosted a team that they knew well, having met several times over the past couple of seasons. With three games left before the season finale, the Pumas...
View ArticleKirven earns player of the match for the much-changed Leopards
Driffield Leopards U10 0Rockford Rangers U10 3This week saw Leopards entertain Rockford Ranger Blues.It was a brisk morning at the rec, but the sun broke through, and although not warm it was pleasant...
View ArticleManchester Regiment military trophies under the hammer at Driffield auction
Dee, Atkinson and Harrison’s final Antique and Fine Art Auction of 2013 takes place on Friday 29 November and will contain just over 600 lots.The sale gets underway at 9:45am with just over one hundred...
View ArticleDriffield Tigers stun rivals to reach semi-finals
Driffield Tigers’ under 15s produced the shock of the Hull Boys Knockout Cup quarter-finals with a fantastic result against Myton League opponents Westella & Willerby at Allotment Lane on...
View ArticleTwenty-two horses to follow for the new jumps season
The new jumps season is in full swing, with big meetings virtually every weekend between now and the Cheltenham Festival next March.After the record-breaking exploits of champion jockey AP McCoy, who...
View ArticleBook review: Elizabeth of York by Alison Weir
If Sir Thomas More was ‘a man for all seasons,’ then the female equivalent was surely Elizabeth of York.Daughter of a Plantagenet king, wife of the king who founded the Tudor dynasty and mother of the...
View ArticleAussie ace Douglas settles in at Driffield
Driffield RUFC’s new Aussie recruit Jake Douglas is settling nicely into his new surroundings.The six foot six inch forward arrived on October 1 and is keen to fit plenty in before he returns home to...
View ArticleTreasures plundered after dealer was beaten to death - jury is told
An antiques dealer was murdered in his home by an attacker who plundered a hoard of gold and silver over his victim’s dead body, a jury has heard.Father-of-two Peter Battle was battered to death by...
View ArticleSkerryvore headline at Moonbeams anniversary gig
On Saturday 23 November it will be six years to the day since Moonbeams began.Named after one of his songs, Chris Helme played to a packed Maple Room. Six years on, organisers say they have had some...
View ArticleBook review: Scout Tests and How to Pass Them by Scout Association
Adventure, development and achievement… the character-building bedrocks of the Scout movement have been lighting up youngsters’ lives for over 100 years.Robert Baden-Powell, a lieutenant general in the...
View ArticleBook review: Christmas fun and games with Usborne children’s books
You always know that Christmas is well and truly on the way when Usborne set sail with their glittering collection of children’s books.And on the tidal wave of a fabulous festive cargo this year is a...
View ArticleBook review: The Lost Duchess by Jenny Barden
When you find yourself in some serious bother at the perilous Tudor court, there is only one place to which you can truly escape… the New World.Still riding high since her debut novel, Mistress of the...
View ArticleBook review: Lionheart by Stewart Binns
Ranulf of Lancaster – a young man raised at the Old Saxon church on the coastal cliffs at Heysham – is destined to guide one of England’s greatest monarchs through his turbulent reign.It won’t be an...
View ArticleNot the greatest performance but Pumas win to continue climb up table
Driffield Pumas u12 faced a tricky game on Sunday against a team just above them in the Myton league.Driffield Pumas U12 3Hedon U12 1Pumas went into the game full of confidence but started slowly with...
View ArticleDriffield men beat one of their main rivals as the battle at the top hots up
Driffield faced one of their biggest games of the season, with Sheffield Hallam 3rds making the trip to the East Riding. Hallam, with very strong 1st and 2nd XIs, have consistently finished in the top...
View ArticleBook review: Macmillan Children’s Books put the sparkle into Christmas
On your marks, get set, glow… Macmillan Children’s Books have a glittering line-up of books to add extra shine to Christmas 2013.There are gorgeous, stardust-covered books to set young readers alight,...
View ArticleUPDATE: Police release more details of B1248 crash victims
North Yorkshire police have released further information about the two men and one woman killed in a tragic accident on the B1248 between Wetwang and Malton, yesterday.The collision happened at around...
View ArticleBook review: The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty
“Nobody tells Pandora a word about the jar. Nobody tells her not to open the jar.” There are so many secrets about our lives we’ll never know. Would you open the jar?The Husband’s Secret is set in...
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