From our archives:

85 years ago

An appeal to moderate opinion in India to reconsider their decision not to co-operate with the Government was made by Lord Irwin as he took to the stage at Thirsk Hall, for the annual Thirsk and Malton Conservative Association demonstration and fete.

In spite of dull, grey skies, the ground was filled with several hundred people all gathered to hear the newly appointed Minister of Education.

Malton also had a special visitor, the Archbishop of York.

After dedicating Malton Grammar School’s Girl Guides with their new colours the Archbishop then made his way to preach before a large congregation at St Michael’s Church.

In his sermon, the Archbishop said religion was not a set of rules, but a life of love.

50 years ago

“Don’t take your children near water if you can’t give them constant supervision,” advised a coroner at the inquest of a four year-old boy who drowned in the River Ouse during a family outing.

According to the coroner Mr G P Knowles, “Young persons are so defenceless; they are not like animals. In most cases, young animals can swim; young children cannot.”

Members of staff at Clifton Hospital, York, were pictured hard at work rehearsing Off The Hook, a revue which the performers themselves had written.

The revue was to be performed in the hospital theatre with free admission.

Two teenagers repaid the generosity of a group of young Americans, by acting as hosts during their sight-seeing tour of York.

And York University also announced its fees for overseas students would increase more than three times its present rate, after a Government decision was published in the university’s latest prospectus.

20 years ago

Green protesters were threatening a return to non-violent direct action to slow down a £40m factory shopping scheme on the old Naburn Hospital site, near York, in bid to make it very difficult and expensive for the developers.

And Hockney-inspired paintings added a splash of colour for patients at York District Hospital, thanks to the children of Fulford School.

Pictured in The Press were young athletes from St Joseph’s Primary School, Pickering who were off to a flying start at their school sports day.

And staff at a North Yorkshire pub who had supposedly scooped £3.4 million on the National Lottery were now claiming it was all a hoax.