Simon Ritchie

DESPITE the rain, the wellies and the anoraks it wasn't quite Glastonbury.

SCIENCE can be a bit dull, admit it - theories, lots of long numbers and boffins in white coats scratching their heads. But it doesn’t have to be, as this great show produced by the Science Museum proved.

WATCHING tribute bands can be a bit of a hit and miss affair. Thankfully, it was the former when the Hull-based ELO Experience rocked into York last Thursday.

TWO York schoolboys are striding out in their onesies to raise money for pupils in Africa.

FUNNYMAN Manford is on to a winner. Get your audience to write down things that annoy them the most and then read them out. Simple, but pure genius.

YOU know you’ve been to a good concert when 48 hours later you still can’t get the songs out of your head.

EASINGWOLD’S Maize Maze is celebrating ten years of confusing and puzzing visitors.

GYM owner Jo Holmes is ready to fight it out in the world of fitness.

PUBLICANS Paul and Diane Watkinson are celebrating an unusual double.

TO PINCH one of Frankie Boyle’s jokes, the man is like Marmite, 50 per cent of people hate him, the other 50 per cent would like to see him on the end of a knife.