From our archives:

85 years ago

The Lord Mayor of York, Alderman Vernon Wragge, received a practical insight into the running of a modern evening newspaper, when he started the printing presses for the Jubilee Edition of the Yorkshire Evening Press in York.

Stepping on to the wooden platform of the huge machine like an expert, he then pressed a button setting the presses in motion, declaring he wished the Yorkshire Evening Press continued success and a brilliant future.

According to the latest fashion feature, milliners were still blocking and stitching hats which were small and carefully fitted to the head.

For the autumn season there was a hat to suit every type of face, if not, there was always brightly coloured turbans for those with broad chins and features which suggest the Orient.

50 years ago

Three York civilians were among 11 RAF staff who received awards for “meritorious service” at a special ceremony at Linton-on-Ouse.

Presenting the two men and one woman with official commendations for general service was Air Vice Marshall MD Lyne.

The only woman to receive the commendation, on parchment, was Miss Sally Campagnola, of Clifton Dale, York, who had served the RAF for nearly 12 years as a telephone operator.

Osbaldwick housewives were being asked to take a busman’s holiday by leaving their own kitchens and helping to provide a kitchen at the Old School annex, by supporting a coffee morning to help raise funds.

Two more Selby telephone kiosks were put out of action by vandals in the latest of a series of raids in the Selby area.

In one of the kiosks in The Crescent the coin-box had been torn from the wall and cash contents stolen.

20 years ago

North Yorkshire ambulance man Ian Artingstoll had been hailed a hero after saving the life of a critically-ill man, 35,000 feet above the Atlantic.

Mr Artingstoll from Sutton-under-Whitestonecliffe, was just settling back to enjoy the in-flight movie on their return flight from San Francisco when a call went out over the plane’s intercom for a medic.

And David Mellor attacked the Italian authorities for treating English fans travelling to Rome as “animals”.

According to the former MP and presenter of Radio 5’s popular 606 programme, when football fans phone in to air their views, they always complain about the Italians’ tight security.