THE HANDLEBAR Moustache Club of Great Britain came to York for its annual weekend away.

The club, exclusively for people who have a “hirsute appendage of the upper lip with graspable extremities”, held its annual general meeting in York and spent the weekend visited its sites.

About 38 members of the club and “friends” of the club, who don’t need to meet the above criteria, stayed in the Hedley House Hotel on Bootham Terrace where they had a gala dinner on Saturday evening.

Steve Parsons, club secretary, said: “It’s very much a social club. We meet once a month in a pub in London and once a year go away for the weekend.” The trip to York attracted members from all over the country and internationally.