Book review: Matron on Call by Joan Woodcock
One minute you can be saving someone’s life, the next stemming a simple nosebleed or getting to grips with an aggressive drunk ... there’s never a dull moment in a busy hospital casualty...
View ArticleBook review: Educating Jack by Jack Sheffield
Shoulder pads, pixie boots, Curly Wurly bars, ET, Dallas, Cagney and Lacey, Boy George and the Falklands War ... who could forget the 1980s?Many of us can still remember the heady days of Fame and...
View ArticleDriffield open for business
Despite the current economic downturn, Driffield is currently bursting with business opportunities, with a host of low cost units available to rent for start-up companies.Top quality help is also on...
View ArticleBook 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: Selection of OUP children’s books
February sees an exciting new selection of books from the classy stable at Oxford University Press Children’s Books.From picture books that catch the eyes of toddlers through the middle reading years...
View ArticleScooter drive
A MOBILITY Scooter Drive will pass through the Driffield area to help raise funds for the Yorkshire Cancer Centre at St James’s Hospital, Leeds. The drive will start in Whitby on April 6 and see the...
View ArticleLove is in the air
A VALENTINES dance will be held at Kilham Village Hall from 1.30pm to 4.30pm on Thursday February 14.Admission £2.50, including afternoon tea, with proceeds to the British Legion at Alderstone House,...
View ArticleAntiques fair for skaters
DRIFFIELD Showground will host an Antique and Collector’s Fair on Sunday March 4 in aid of the town’s skate park.For more details call 01377 254768.
View ArticleBully busting Brownies!
5th DRIFFIELD Brownies have been toughening up after taking part in an anti-bullying seminar at Driffield’s National Martial Arts College.The Brownies took part in a ‘bully busting’ class at the...
View ArticleWagoners lecture at Beverley Treasure House
East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s Archives and Local Studies Service has organised a short series of lectures which starts on Tuesday February 7 with ‘Wagoners’ Memorial, Sledmere – re-visited’ by...
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 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 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 ArticleBook review: Tempest by Julie Cross
It’s September 9th 2007 and student Jackson Meyer knows for sure that October 30th 2009 is going to be the worst day of his life.His beautiful girlfriend Holly will be shot by two ruthless gunmen and...
View ArticleBook review: The Virgin Queen’s Daughter by Ella March Chase
In the Machiavellian world of the Tudor court, there is always room to take liberties.So why not speculate that the teenage Elizabeth I might have secretly given birth to a daughter after what we know...
View ArticleBook review: The Winter Palace by Eva Stachniak
Powerful women are always irresistible ... think Elizabeth I, Cleopatra, Boudicca, Eleanor of Aquitaine and the ‘queen’ of them all, Catherine the Great of Russia.Eva Stachniak knows only too well the...
View ArticleBook review: The Piccadilly Plot by Susanna Gregory
Restoration London is a dangerous place for a former Parliamentarian spy, but who better to brazen it out than the wily Thomas Chaloner?The Piccadilly Plot is Susanna Gregory’s seventh novel featuring...
View ArticleChristopher David Mitchell
A funeral service was held at All Saints’ Church, North Dalton, on Friday, February 10 for Mr Christopher David Mitchell of Middleton on the Wolds (formerly of North Dalton) who died in the Alfred Bean...
View ArticleBook review: Top choice from Random House Children’s Books
Whether your children are tots or teens, there’s plenty of exciting titles available from Random House Children’s Books this month.From colourful picture books to sophisticated suspense novels for...
View ArticleBook review: A Walk in the Park by Jill Mansell
If any film-makers out there have never curled up with a Jill Mansell book, then perhaps now is a good time to start.A Walk in the Park is just the latest of her trademark romantic comedies which seem...
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