From our archives:

85 years ago

The York Ebor Fur Fanciers’ Society held their members’ cup show at its headquarters, the Leeds Arms, Haymarket, York, with over 100 entries.

York amateur gardeners were also celebrating success after creating an outstanding exhibition in Acomb.

Mr Sam Pickering, from Clifton took home the prize for best rock garden and Mr Arnold Rowntree gained success with his display of fine begonias.

Dr Scholl’s Foot Comfort Depot in Parliament Street, had advertised that its new modern Chiropody Department, with fully qualified Chiropodists was now open for business and the recipe of the week was fruit drinks to substitute morning cups of tea.

According to The Yorkshire Herald many people were discovering the delights of grapefruit in the morning. Prepared overnight, each grapefruit should be cut in half, all pips removed and sprinkled with sugar.

50 years ago

Speaking at a London press conference Mr Patrick Cahill, deputy chairman of the British Insurance Association warned the British public that motor insurance rates would be increased, after reports had showed a loss on premiums of 2.1 per cent and “there was no getting away from the fact that the cost of claims had got to come out of premiums”.

In York more than 100 parents and friends of Derwent Secondary Modern School, enjoyed a Dutch supper, whilst watching colour slides of a visit to Holland made by 30 pupils of the school.

Over at Queen Ann Grammar School the girls were embarking on the RAC’s Junior Driver course, being taught both theoretical as well as practical.

20 years ago

Pickering policeman Sgt Alan Jarman had been awarded the Queen’s Commendation for Bravery for attempting to rescue a 15-year-old boy swept from the slipway out to sea in a storm.

York’s very own “Mr Poppy” Ted Griffiths, 79, had been awarded an MBE in the Birthday Honours after helping raise more than £400,000 for the Royal British Legion in his 50 years as a member.

Postwoman Christine Charlton who had been delivering letters to villagers at Tollerton for 18 years, had also been made an MBE.

Oklahoma bomber Timothy McVeigh was facing death by lethal injection.

A jury had deliberated for 11 hours before deciding the former soldier should be sentenced to death for the 1995 bombing of a government building in Oklahoma City that killed 168 people.