Malcolm William Hickson
A funeral service was held at the East Riding Crematorium on Monday, December 17 for Mr Malcolm William Hickson, of Woldholme Avenue, Driffield, who died peacefully in hospital on December 10. He was...
View ArticleAction on budgets
Young people from across the East Riding have been invited by East Riding of Yorkshire Council to debate issues that could shape their future.On December 6, young people from 10 East Riding secondary...
View ArticleBook review: Wellington’s Worst Scrape: The Burgos Campaign 1812 by Carole...
Just over 200 years ago, as the long-running Napoleonic Wars raged across Europe, the British Army under the great Duke of Wellington suffered one of the most disastrous periods in its history.The...
View ArticleBook review: Iris by Jean Marsh
Iris Winston is a ‘good time girl’ and in 1950s London, there’s plenty of fun to be found in the clubs and bars of the city’s seedy but exciting East End.Raised in a dismal flat in shabby Kilburn, Iris...
View ArticleBook review: The Queen’s Vow by C.W.Gortner
Isabella of Castile, wife of Ferdinand of Aragon, warrior queen, architect of a united Spain, educational reformer, the visionary who sent Columbus to discover a New World... and a religious fanatic...
View ArticleBook review: Rawtenstall Through Time by Kathy Fishwick
Rawtenstall, a small town nestling in Lancashire’s Rossendale Valley, was first mentioned in the archives way back in 1326 when it was rather quaintly described as the ‘row tunstall,’ or long, narrow...
View ArticleNew development really takes off!
TWO homebuyers are settling into their new home at Harron Homes’ Oak Dene Mount development as the first residents of a new community being created by the 700-acre Waverley regeneration scheme near...
View ArticleTroway home with outbuildings
Extensive grounds, with barns and outbuildings ripe for conversion, are the setting for this substantial four-bedroom home, on the market at £699,950.The property, at 41 Snowdon Lane, Troway, Sheffield...
View ArticleBook review: Oliver Fibbs: Attack of the Alien Brain by Steve Hartley
Lancashire children’s author Steve Hartley has been voted ‘Coolest Dude of the Year’ for five years running, so it’s always best to expect the unexpected when you open one of his amazing books.The...
View ArticleCommunity theatre at St Nick’s
A new community theatre is underway at St Nicholas Community Centre, Holmechurch Lane, Beverley, and a new musical theatre group will be using it as their home.Beverley Youth Theatre @ St Nicks meet on...
View ArticleBeverley First Probus
The December meeting of Beverley First Probus Club was doubly special: first, because we were able to enjoy a superb pre-Christmas lunch, and, secondly, because we were to be enthralled by a very...
View ArticleMoving on up
ONE young Nafferton couple have started the New Year in a new home.Josh Barker and Liana Ebrahimzadeh have taken the next step on the property ladder, purchasing their second home at Beal Homes’...
View ArticleBeverley Round Tablle
Beverley Round Table is looking forward to welcoming new members as people look to make changes to their lives in 2013.It’s not just shops with sales that experience a January rush. As the tinsel and...
View ArticleCrowds support Holderness Hunt
CROWDS gathered in Beverley on Boxing Day to enjoy the Holderness Hunt Boxing Day meet.The Hunt, which draws in the crowds annually on December 26, saw around 20 huntsmen take part.Charles Clark lead...
View ArticleBook review: Marked by David Jackson
Scourge of the NYPD, an enigma to his own family, Detective Callum Doyle lives life on the edge...Obsessive, hot-headed, rude and abrasive, he broods, snarls and glowers, but the violence that bubbles...
View ArticleGeorge Edwin Grey-Nicholson
A funeral service was held at the East Riding Crematorium on Monday January 7 for the late Mr George Edwin ‘Ted’ Grey-Nicholson of Great Kelk who died suddenly at home on 22nd December. He was 66.The...
View ArticleBook review: Animal (and other) magic from Scholastic Children’s Books
Chase away those January blues with Scholastic’s colourful collection of children’s books which includes an exciting new series based on real-life animal rescues.Whether it’s a little lost hedgehog, a...
View ArticleBook review: The Pillow Book of the Flower Samurai by Barbara Lazar
The dazzling but brutal world of 12th century Japan springs into glorious life through the bizarre destiny of one young peasant girl in Barbara Lazar’s sumptuous new novel.Kozaishō is Fifth Daughter of...
View ArticleBook review: School’s Out! by Jack Sheffield
As a new term begins at a tiny North Yorkshire primary school in September 1983, headmaster Jack Sheffield feels that familiar mix of excitement and trepidation.There’s a fresh intake to settle in, a...
View ArticleMrs Betty Weekes
A funeral service was held at the East Riding Crematorium on Friday January 11 for Mrs Betty Weekes of the Glenfield Residential Home who died peacefully in Glenfield on 6th January. She was aged...
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