Wildlife Watch with Kate Humble
Brrrrr, winter is definitely here, the trees are bare, although it’s still mild enough to be out in the garden. Whether or not you’ve got jobs to do, you can still indulge in a bit of birdwatching. You...
View ArticleBrass band emsemble
The Driffield Brass Ensemble of The Salvation Army will be presenting Christmas Carols and collecting for the ‘Red Kettle Appeal’ in the Town Centre during the festive season.The appeal is a long...
View ArticleBook review: Breakfast at Darcy’s by Ali McNamara
Twenty-something Darcy McCall has always liked knowing what’s going to happen next... hope and optimism, the staples of many people’s lives, fill her with doubt whilst certainty gives her a reassuring...
View ArticleBook review: Steve McQueen: A Biography by Marc Eliot
He was ‘Mr Cool’ one minute and ‘Mr Nasty’ the next, a Hollywood legend in his lifetime and the nearest thing to James Dean.Marc Eliot’s new biography of the enigma that was Steve McQueen brings us...
View ArticleBook review: The Quest for Frank Wild by Angie Butler
When journalist Angie Butler set out to unravel the truth of the final years of Edwardian Polar explorer Frank Wild, it turned into a seven-year voyage of discovery.The Quest for Frank Wild is her...
View ArticleWind turbines - as much use as nipples on a worm - THE ORB
I have changed my mind about wind farms.I used to love ‘em.The appearance of Lissett is vastly enhanced by twisting turbines waving gently at the sky against a drab backdrop of soil coloured...
View ArticleMistletoe magic
I WOULD like to wish you all a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year. That old festive favourite mistletoe has flourished this year. I watched the news the other day and they were filming live from...
View ArticleBook review: Cuckoo by Julia Crouch
‘Nothing is what it seems’... Julia Crouch’s dark novel sheds a new and disturbing light on the age-old maxim.There’s another saying that ‘an Englishman’s home is his castle’... and one about ‘a friend...
View ArticleBook review: Selection of Macmillan Children’s Books
As a new school term gets underway, the youngest members of the family are heading off to the library to find the pick of the new crop of books.And Macmillan Children’s Books have some new and exciting...
View ArticleBook review: The Child Inside by Suzanne Bugler
Since she lost her stillborn daughter ten years ago, Rachel Morgan has felt herself to be outside life, looking in.Her marriage to dependable Andrew is disintegrating, held together only by their...
View ArticleSledmere Forge and the Wold Rangers
ANGELA Sykes, born at Sledmere House in 1911, married Randal the Earl of Antrim in May, 1934 and spent most of her married life at Glenarm Castle in County Antrim. After the Earl’s death in 1977 she...
View ArticleTurning the winter corner
Although winter has apparently only just begun in the human world, a walk around the countryside will suggest that this is actually the beginning of Spring.Not long into January, and particularly with...
View ArticleBook review: The Pleasures of Men by Kate Williams
The shadowy streets and alleyways of Spitalfields in early Victorian London are dens of vice, filth and poverty.Disease and death stalk its despairing inhabitants and murder is rife... but equally dark...
View ArticleDays lengthen, cold strengthens
THIS month we’ve been battered by severe Atlantic winds that have caused a great deal of damage. Though hardly to be welcomed, it’s probably better to have this kind of weather now rather than later....
View ArticleBook review: Perdition by James Jackson
As war approaches, the toughest battles ahead are often those fought in the mind...And so it is for 14-year-old orphan boy and Crusader spy Benedict who has already witnessed the wounded, the slain,...
View ArticleArsonists play tig with a flaming Olympic torch
Does anyone have a match?And I don’t mean the “Yeah, my bum, your face” variety.I mean a Swan Vesta, a Lucifer, a chemically treated stick that bursts into flames when you rub it against an abrasive...
View ArticleBook review: The Greek Myths by Robin Waterfield
What is the famous riddle of the enigmatic Sphinx and why did the powerhouse known as Hercules have to perform those twelve superhuman labours?The answers, and much more, lie within the pages of a...
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 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...
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