HOW'S the sore head? Not too bad, we hope. Today's the day when we traditionally start looking ahead to what the new year will hold.

But we're all still a bit hung over for that. So instead, we'll take one last, gentle look back at the year which has just gone, through the eyes of our award-winning team of photographers.

They have each selected their favourite photographs of 2014. Enjoy...

Nigel Holland

June 2014: York Boxing Club' s Toby Shaw leaps in the air after his win over Harry Kelly of Henry's Gym, watched by ref Jack Goodwin in the 40kg juniors.

"Boxing is my favourite sport," says Nigel. "I covered York boxing champion Henry Wharton's British, Commonwealth and European title achievements during the nineties, yet this picture of the agony of defeat and the ecstasy of winning clearly demonstrates it all starts with ABA bouts like this at a local level. Neither winner Toby Shaw nor loser Harry Kelly can hide their feelings on the night allowing me to record a very special moment in time!"

June 2014: a Hurricane being lifted onto the roof York's Theatre Royal

"Despite the hundreds of images we take this stands out as one of the most unusual I have ever seen during my 30 years on the paper," says Nigel. "Closing the streets of the city in the early hours of the morning council workers and staff from the Yorkshire Air Museum at Elvington joined forces to lift a replica Hawker Hurricane into position onto the roof of the Theatre Royal to mark the 70th anniversary of French airmen stationed in York during the war. The body of the plane was lifted from a low loader and the wings were bolted on. It was eventually pushed along Duncombe Place - a strange sight in itself - before being lifted into position where it would be seen by thousands of tourists celebrating the Tour de France."

 

Frank Dwyer

May 2014: New Mum. Sumatran Tiger Surya with one of her three cubs, after they came out in public for the first time at Flamingo Land Zoo. It's the symphony of stripes, the protective way mother stands over cub - and above all the intensity of the gaze as she fixes those great, green eyes directly on Frank taking his photo. You know exactly what she's thinking: "Don't come any closer..."

July 2014: York Minster bathed in the radiance of a glorious rainbow, as though God Himself were bestowing his blessings upon the great cathedral. But for Frank, it's that seagull that completes the picture...

 

Anthony Chappel-Ross

August 2014: A walker is battered by heavy seas as waves crash against sea defences in Whitby, in this photo taken when the tail end of Hurricane Bertha hit our shores. The photo is all about movement - with just the still figure with its rainbow umbrella at the epicentre.

August 2014: One of York's most prominent WW2 veterans, Ken Smith, remembers the 100th anniversary of the start of the Great War ahead of a ceremony at York Cemetery. In a year which has seen the nation collectively remembering those who gave their lives between 1914 and 1918, this was a truly moving moment, as the veteran of one world war remembered those who lost their lives in another and earlier one.

 

David Harrison

April 2014: They who served: a portrait of understated dignity and modest pride. Normandy Veterans Ken Smith, Ken Cooke, Gordon Collinson, Roy Rowbotham, Bert Barritt, George Meredith, Douglas Haw, and Dennis Haydock, pictured by David Harrison

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June 2014: James Blunt at Dalby Forest . The singer is in full cry,  just look at the expression on his face...

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