Christmas All Wrapped Up 2009

York pub donates gifts to domestic abuse children

Wendy Hyde, right, general manager of the Ainsty Hotel, in Acomb, York, and Corrina Dobson, childen’s support worker at the Independent Domestic Abuse Service women’s refuge

8:51am Tuesday 1st January 2013

CHILD victims of domestic abuse were given hundreds of gifts to share at Christmas – thanks to a York pub boss and her generous customers.

A wartime Christmas with the enemy

Eden Camp director Nick Hill with some of the concert party memorabilia donated by the family of former POW Kenneth Finlayson

7:35am Saturday 29th December 2012

MEMORIES of how Christmas was celebrated in wartime by prisoners of war are being rekindled in an appropriate North Yorkshire setting.

A festive lunch full of community spirit...

The Lord Mayor of York, Coun Keith Hyman, and the civic party join diners at the West Side Safer Neighbourhood Team Credit Crunch Lunch

5:23pm Friday 28th December 2012

POLICE officers rolled up their sleeves and served up a credit crunch lunch for 60 of the city’s senior citizens – with the help of kind-hearted businesses across York.

Second helpings of Christmas dinner

5:33pm Friday 28th December 2012

DID you miss out on a family Christmas together? A York family pub is on a mission to spread festive joy by hunting for local families whose special day failed to deliver – and is offering the chance to claim back the Christmas they missed.

Soldiers celebrate Christmas far from home

A giant Christmas Card sent by the citizens of York

8:34am Thursday 27th December 2012

MORE than 3,700 miles from home, soldiers from 2 Signal Regiment, York enter into the Christmas spirit while undertaking operations in Afghanistan.

Christmas Day babies at York Hospital

Christmas Day baby Ruby Alice, left, with mum Kristy and dad Rob

10:22am Wednesday 26th December 2012

CHRISTMAS Day became even more special for some families after their new babies made festive entrances at York Hospital.

Carol singers raise £100 for hospice

Andrea Tutty with her grandson George Chambers, centre, and his friend, Joe Green, after their sang carols to raise money for St Leonard’s Hospice

9:28am Wednesday 26th December 2012

A PAIR of schoolfriends from York who decided to raise some Christmas cheer by door-to-door carol singing have brought in more than £100 for Saint Leonard’s Hospice.

Christmas presents for children in York Hospital

Opening presents on the children’s ward at York Hospital are, from the left, Jude Burden with her son Harry, Sarah Talbot from Aviva Restaurant Associates, Anthony Giles, and play specialist Rachel Wilson with Phillipa Humble

9:23am Wednesday 26th December 2012

SICK children who spent Christmas Day in hospital received a delivery of Christmas presents from catering staff at Aviva.

‘Oscar is our best Christmas gift ever’

Cpl Jay Grundy with wife, Lisa, baby Oscar and Lisa’s son, Jermaine

9:00am Monday 24th December 2012

A SOLDIER who survived an explosion in Afghanistan has made a 28-hour dash home from the frontline for “the best Christmas present ever” – the arrival of his first child.

Making Christmas as special as possible for Lewis

Lewis Thornton with his mum, Rebecca Thompson

8:16am Monday 24th December 2012

THE mother of a teenager who battled cancer as a 16-month-old baby to find it had returned when he was 16-years-old, says she hopes to make Christmas as special as possible for her son.

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