Why there’s a real art to prints from Tokyo

Edo Hyakkei by Hiroshige

10:55am Monday 20th May 2013

There’s more to Japanese prints than courtesans, actors and warriors as MATT CLARK discovers at a gallery in the heart of York.

Caroline Charles: Still swinging 50 years on

Caroline Charles

12:24pm Saturday 18th May 2013

Caroline Charles dressed the stars of the Sixties. MATT CLARK finds out what keeps her going 50 years on.

Fashion statements at York College

Model Rachel Scott (designed by Eleanor Cowland), Lucy McMelon (designed by Sian King), Molly Hood (designed by Sophie Sykes) and Amy Seed (designed by Alice Bywater)

12:17pm Saturday 18th May 2013

York College fashion students hit the catwalk next week with their end of term collections. MAXINE GORDON goes behind the scenes for a sneak preview • Pictures: Garry Atkinson.

Virtual museum set up to mark International Museum Day

A Second World War Blue Kit Kat. In 1941, the bar got a case of the blues when shortages of milk saw a plain chocolate Kit Kat sold in a blue wrapper – the familiar red wrapper and milk chocolate returned in 1949

11:22am Friday 17th May 2013

Images of some of York’s finest historic and prehistoric artifacts will be posted on Facebook from tomorrow in a ‘virtual museum’ being set up to mark International Museum Day. STEPHEN LEWIS reports

Press photographer shortlisted for prestigious award

An art installation featuring umbrellas over Clifford’s Tower

11:12am Friday 17th May 2013

THIS colourful image of an art installation featuring umbrellas over Clifford’s Tower caught the imagination of judges in the Regional Press Awards who have shortlisted The Press photographer Frank Dwyer for a prestigious award.

Dam fine achievement by Bomber Command

Above, 617 Squadron pose in the shadow of a mighty Lancaster bomber. Top right, the Eder Dam spews forth after the raid.

8:42am Thursday 16th May 2013

Seventy years ago, British airmen took part in one of the most audacious bombing raids of the second world war – the Dambusters. Without realising it, a young WAAF officer helped 617 Squadron prepare for the raid. Barbara Dallas is now 90 and living in York. MATT CLARK reports on the raid that captured the imagination – then and now

Restaurant critic Jay Rayner lays down his food manifesto

Restaurant critic Jay Rayner

12:07pm Wednesday 15th May 2013

Jay Rayner describes himself as “a greedy man in a hungry world”. The Observer restaurant critic is unlikely to stay hungry for long in Malton this weekend for the Food Lovers Festival. He speaks to STEPHEN LEWIS

How to present a flawless face

Makeup artist Trevor O’Keeffe with Maxine Gordon at Fenwicks, York

11:15am Tuesday 14th May 2013

MAXINE GORDON goes in search of a ‘flawless face’ , with a little help from make-up artist Trevor O’Keeffe

Why it’s a City life for Sophie

Sophie Hicks, York City’s communications director

11:47am Monday 13th May 2013

York City’s first season back in the Football League was a real roller-coaster. The club’s communications director Sophie Hicks spoke to STEPHEN LEWIS about the season’s ups and downs.

A trial in itself

Richard Catton at York Crown Court, where he served as a juror

8:59am Saturday 11th May 2013

Reporter Richard Catton was called up for jury service – and found it’s nothing like on TV

Getting ready to head for the hills

Mark Reid striding out

10:20am Friday 10th May 2013

RUTH CAMPBELL didn’t realise she was an accident waiting to happen until she met walking expert Mark Reid. Now, armed with a map and a compass, she is ready to head for the hills.

York Hospital boss warns of impact of NHS funding cuts

York Hospital’s chief executive Patrick Crowley surveys his domain, but cuts are biting deep, he admits

9:31am Thursday 9th May 2013

At a recent health scrutiny meeting, York Hospital boss Patrick Crowley launched into an outspoken warning about the impact of cuts in health funding. He spoke afterwards to STEPHEN LEWIS

The York man who is helping to rescue abused girls from the streets of Brazil

A young Brazilian street girl

11:21am Wednesday 8th May 2013

ANDY Roberts was 4,500 miles from home when he heard the story that would change his life. It was the story of one family but it was representative of hundreds more.

On border patrol with the collies

Mike Cooke and Nicki Oliver with some of the dogs at Border Collie Rescue

10:05am Wednesday 8th May 2013

Border collies are lovely, intelligent dogs – but they don’t always make the ideal family pet. STEPHEN LEWIS visits a rescue centre near York that aims to find a new home for dogs that have proved too much of a handful as pets

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Columnists

The size of it...

Sue Nelson

10:47am Monday 20th May 2013

STAND back in amazement! A woman who wears size 16 clothes has been photographed in a bikini for a high street fashion chain. Good heavens, whatever next…

My first cuckoo? Nigel Lawson...

Kate Lock

11:04am Friday 17th May 2013

HERE’S a novelty. ‘Tweet of the Day’ isn’t actually a tweet – as in a pithy pronouncement in 140 characters or less on social networking site Twitter – but a real soundclip of birdsong on BBC Radio 4.

An acronym? Not in my back yard!

Julian Cole

8:51am Thursday 16th May 2013

WHO wants to be summed up by an acronym? Not me, if the abbreviation in question is NIMBY. Yet sometimes life trips you up that way.

Readers' letters

Alex Ferguson’s good, but he’s not the greatest

8:17am Monday 20th May 2013

I FULLY agree with Dave Barker (Fergie lacks class, Letters, May 14).

Young helpers

8:15am Monday 20th May 2013

ON TUESDAY, May 7, walking out of Agar Street on the corner with Monkgate, my good friend, Don, 82, fell on the uneven footpath.

Upgrades needed

8:16am Monday 20th May 2013

COUN KEITH ORRELL (Letters, May 15) outlines the desperate housing situation.

Wake up and smell the coffee

8:15am Monday 20th May 2013

I WAS bemused to read another letter from a reader who purports to know the mind of the great British public (Letters, May 17).

Fundraising Fun

Rock’n’roll coffee bar in aid of Alzheimer’s Society

Preparing for the Alzheimer’s Society tea party are, from left, fundraiser Julie Lee with Tony Neal and his wife, Jenny, and Hudda Morgan from event sponsors Harrowells Solicitors

10:40am Monday 20th May 2013

A pop-up vintage rock’n’roll coffee bar is being organised by the Alzheimer’s Society in York as part of Dementia Awareness Week.

Teenager's bungee jump to raise money for transplant unit

Megan Guest prepares for her bungee jump

9:18am Saturday 18th May 2013

A BRAVE youngster will climb 210 steps and jump off a bridge 160 feet high tomorrow to celebrate her 14th birthday and raise money for the transplant unit at Leeds General Infirmary.

Health & Wellbeing

"I had never thought about suffering from prostate cancer"

Brian Richardson, of Woodthorpe, who is doing the Taking The P 5k run

10:44am Monday 20th May 2013

Prompt treatment appears to have helped Brian Richardson beat prostate cancer, so now he’s running in a bid to raise research cash, as MARK BRANAGAN reports.

History

Memories of school days, parties and trips to coast

Knavesmire Secondary Girls School in 1946 - list of names at bottom of article.

11:32am Monday 20th May 2013

WE have an interesting mixed bag of old photos sent in by readers in Yesterday Once More this week.

Eco Info

Yorkshire peatlands restored

8:54am Saturday 18th May 2013

ABOUT 100 square miles of Yorkshire’s precious peatlands have been restored in a multi-million pound project that aims to preserve vital habitats and help cut global warming by reducing the amount of carbon escaping from them into the atmosphere.

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