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Launch of York Science and Innovation Grand Tour

A close-up image of a chocolate crane fly

9:14am Wednesday 23rd May 2012

The centre of York is about to become a giant outdoor gallery, celebrating the city’s contribution to science and technology, as STEPHEN LEWIS discovers.

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Under starter’s orders

9:49am Tuesday 22nd May 2012

A family tragedy has spurred a North Yorkshire woman to get in the saddle at York races. MAXINE GORDON reports.

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Knaresborough - a town with a steep sense of history

3:30pm Monday 21st May 2012

MATT CLARK spends time in one of North Yorkshire’s most fascinating towns, a place of hills and history.

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Matt sheds 18st and finds style

11:05am Saturday 19th May 2012

York super slimmer Matt Briggs models the latest looks for summer and tells MAXINE GORDON about being a “thinspiration”.

Where net gains can bring hopes for new life

In the world’s poorest communities, simple initiatives can make a huge difference. News editor GAVIN AITCHISON reports on a lifesaving project in Sierra Leone.

Inspired by sporting fire

10:10am Friday 18th May 2012

Tomorrow marks the start of a month-long countdown to the Olympic flame arriving in York and an unusual sports day at the city’s racecourse. MATT CLARK meets a sporting giant who is taking part.

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Patricia, 12 - a President in waiting

PATRICIA SAWIE is a girl with ambition. She may be only 12, but ask her what she wants to do when she finishes school, and she doesn’t hesitate.

Focusing on Rowntree Park

10:52am Wednesday 16th May 2012

The Friends of Rowntree Park have launched this year’s photography competition. Steven Lewis finds out more about capturing the beauty of the park.

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Mary's story: From hunger to happiness

MARY Samuels is dancing and laughing, and she certainly wasn’t doing that four years ago.

Haven that ‘makes you feel human again’

12:08pm Tuesday 15th May 2012

Martin House children's hospice provides a lifeline to families in our region. Ahead of its annual fundraising week, MAXINE GORDON pays a visit with a young family from York.

Passion and compassion in the harshest of places

THE road south from Mattru Jong is not for the faint-hearted. Indeed it can scarcely be called a road at all.

Up and away for series that became a classic

8:46am Monday 14th May 2012

How did the Up series achieve its standing as possibly the greatest TV documentary ever and what does its future hold? ANDREW HITCHON speaks to director Mike Apted, producer Claire Lewis and his brother, Nick, one of the programme’s subjects.

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‘It hits you like a brick wall; it really did happen’

11:51am Friday 11th May 2012

Young people from York had time to absorb the lessons of history as they toured Auschwitz. ANDREW HITCHON listens to what they make of the former concentration camp, and offers his own impressions.

Mary's story: From hunger to happiness

MARY Samuels is dancing and laughing, and she certainly wasn’t doing that four years ago.

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Columnists

We remember to free the future

9:55am Tuesday 22nd May 2012

WHEN I was young I was obsessed with history and television, so the epic ITV series The World At War was right up my proverbial street.

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I’m walking the walk after talking the talk

9:18am Tuesday 22nd May 2012

When I was a child most of our family outings involved a walk of some sort.

Riddle of where to have a widdle

11:48am Monday 21st May 2012

TO GO or not to go – that is the question. So what d’you do if you’re bursting for a pee and there’s not a loo in sight?

Readers' letters

Prophetic words at start of season

9:49am Wednesday 23rd May 2012

With the thousands of words exultantly written about the end of the journey, it might be instructive to look at what was said as York City started out on this momentous season.

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Fabulous fortnight

9:47am Wednesday 23rd May 2012

CONGRATULATIONS to the Minstermen – what a fab fortnight they have had.

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We’re second to none

9:48am Wednesday 23rd May 2012

Absolutely fantastic, congratulations to everyone involved with the return to the football league of the mighty York City.

An exile’s delight

9:48am Wednesday 23rd May 2012

What an amazing eight days. The people of York have shown that the football club is a vital part of our lives and should be cherished (sadly I’m exiled in Manchester at present but I just had to make the trip over on Monday evening).

Fundraising Fun

Cake stall raises funds for MS Society

Tabatha Olney, Alex Richardson and Molly Plews, who organised a cake break event in Little Lane, Haxby, to raise funds for the MS Society

7:47am Wednesday 23rd May 2012

A BAKING bonanza with a difference has been staged in York to raise funds for a charity which provides support to people suffering from multiple sclerosis.