Forget super heroes and meet sewer hero Stan Stinky, the grime-fighting star of a sparkling summer line-up from Scholastic Children’s Books.

Hugh Dennis wasn’t quite sure how to react when his friend, Irish comedian Ardal O’Hanlon, told him he was the most British person he had ever met.

Nick Taussig is determined we should never forget the brutal excesses of Stalin’s Soviet Russia…

As Test match cricket enjoys a resurgence of interest, thanks in no small part to Lancashire’s Andrew Flintoff and the unforgettable series against Australia in 2005, what better time to take a closer look at this inimitable game?

Long before ‘the sisterhood’ burnt their bras in the 1970s, a diverse group of young women were declaring their female independence in the same spirit of reckless determination.

Driffield Wolds Decorative and Fine Arts Society is celebrating its silver anniversary on 27 June with a special musical evening and supper at Sledmere House.

Slimmers from Leven have completed a series of activities to raise cash for the MS Trust, together raising an outstanding £700

Ben Kane’s superb Spartacus ‘mini series’ takes historical Roman novel writing to heady new heights in the final, pulsating instalment of the slave rebellion that shook the mighty Roman empire.

A bloomin’ marvellous photographic competition is to reward proud gardeners for their efforts.

The steamy love affair between Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton is not the only drama creating sparks on the set of the iconic film Cleopatra in 1961.

The sun shone on the 3,000 green fingered revellers at the 19th annual gardeners’ fair held at Burton Agnes Hall last weekend.

Private or secret gardens connected with Beverley Minster will be open to the public on Sunday 16 June for a two-hour journey of discovery, followed by cream tea in the churchyard.

The headliners for this years Beverley Blues Festival have been announced as Ian Siegal and Catfish Keith.

Skirlington Leisure Group has launched into the 21st Century by offering wireless broadband technology across the whole leisure park with free wifi access in the public areas of the bar and leisure centre.

The annual St Cuthbert’s Church garden party will tkae place this year on Saturday July 6 at 2pm at Springfield, Penny Lane, Burton Fleming.

Butterwick church is hosting a flower festival on July 12, 13 and 14.

The Lord Lieutenant, the Hon Susan Cunliffe-Lister and her son, the Honourable Mr Simon Cunliffe-Lister, welcomed Mayors and Councillors, The Hon Simon Howard of Castle Howard, Lord Best OBE, Selina Scott and many other distinguished guests into their Burton Agnes Hall home for complimentary drinks and canapés on behalf of local grant making charity the Two Ridings Community Foundation.

An outstandingly beautiful story about a girl coping with her friend’s death, a thrilling adventure featuring pirates and monsters, a hundred decker bus and a madcap pair of puddled plumbers are leading the summer charge at Macmillan Children’s Books.

With talk of scrapping GCSEs fresh in everyone’s minds and grammar schools still a popular choice with parents, here are two perfect books to settle that age-old argument between the generations… were the exams of yesteryear really harder?

Turn down the lights, snuggle up close and share the timeless rituals of getting ready for bed in this adorable and innovative board book from award-winning author and illustrator Petr Horáček.