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  • "For another perspective...
    There is no way on Earth that I could afford the £150 for a seat at this event, but I was lucky enough to be invited by a kind and generous friend whom I have recently supported through difficult times. He could easily have invited business clients but instead enjoyed a genuinely warm and caring evening in the surroundings of a precious building in which we both worship on a daily basis. True our table definitely didn't raise as much money as some others but everyone around me had a genuine love and concern for the Minster and it's work. It's quite sad to hear so many jaded comments on both sides. Please be assured that the experience had many positive human as well as financial outcomes, as least as far as one table was concerned."
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York Minster Rose Dinner set out on "living carpet" of grass

The York Minster Rose Dinner saluting the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee on the lawn in the Minster nave attended by 900 guests The York Minster Rose Dinner saluting the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee on the lawn in the Minster nave attended by 900 guests

HUNDREDS of diners feasted on a banquet of fillet of beef and scotch quail eggs last night as the nave of York Minster was turfed over to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.

As The Press reported earlier this week, the cathedral’s 14th-century nave has been covered in 1,500 square metres of real grass to welcome more than 900 guests for a special meal to celebrate the Jubilee and the York Minster Rose, and to raise money for the York Minster Fund.

Guests at the York Minster Rose Dinner walked and dined on tables set out on the “living carpet” which was grown on recycled textiles.

The outdoors theme was chosen to complement the new York Minster Rose, which was launched at Chelsea Flower Show last year.

The dinner was only the second such event to take place in the cathedral, following a dinner in 2008 to celebrate the restoration of the Great East Window.

Among the guests attending the meal were the acting Dean Canon Glyn Webster, the Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, Lord Halifax and Lord Crathorne.

The £150-a-head tickets for the meal sold out months ago.

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