2010 in pictures


Picture gallery of photographs taken by The Press photographers, featuring news stories and notable images that have made the news in 2010.

2010 in pictures
  • Where's 2010 gone? It’s behind you! York pantomime stars gathered for their annual photo to wish the people of York a Happy New Year. We would like to echo their message and wish readers of The Press all the very best for 2011.
  • Statue of famed York artist William Etty peering out towards York Minster as the city is enveloped in a morning mist
  • The scene in Scarborough Harbour, with some boats decked in Christmas lights
  • Members of the Middleton Hunt arrive at the Old Lodge in Malton.
  • Zoe and Jamie Rhodes-Baird, of Strensall, York, with baby Zac, who was born at York Hospital at twenty seconds past midnight on Christmas morning, weighing 6lb 13oz.
  • Heidi Mae and Esther Rose who were the best presents Matt and Anna Woodcock could wish for
  • A frozen River Ouse in York after a dusting of snow
  • Santas get ready for a one-mile fun run around Haxby to raise money for the British Heart Foundation.
  • An open air Nativity scene which took place as part of a festive fun day held at Gateway Church, in Front Street, Acomb.
  • Ghosts mingle with late-night shoppers in the city centre as York plays host to A Christmas Carol.Taking part in the Dickens-style York Ghost Tour are, from left, Peter Wilson, Damian Freddi, and Carl Morton.
  • Greta the goat gets into the festive spirit at St Helen's Farm at Seaton Ross.
  • York Minster in the snow.
  • Children from York’s Minster School watch as the advent crown is raised in York Minster
  • Pudsey Bear dropped in on First Steps Nursery at the Roko Gym, at Clifton Moor, York, to encourage the youngsters in their fundraising efforts
  • ‘Pilot Officer’ Jeffrey deGoat, mascot of 609 Squadron, at the Yorkshire Museum of Farming at Murton.
  • Crowds watch the sky light up during fireworks in Dunnington, near York.
  • Sandy McClure, of Juggling Inferno, at the York Maze fireworks display.
  • Graham Hubbard, managing director of Bachmann Europe, with a model of Green Arrow, in front of the real thing at the National Railway Museum, during Model Railway Weekend.
  • Members of York St John University pass the Mansion House on their way to York Minster for the inauguration of vice chancellor Professor David Fleming
  • Three generations of a family dressed up as witches for the Hallowe’en event at English Martyrs’ Church Hall, York. From left Josie, Chris, Sofia and Michelle Cryer.
  • A lemur has fun with a pumpkin at Flamingo Land zoo.
  • The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, rides a rickshaw after opening the new Waitrose store on Foss Islands Road, York.
  • A surfers enjoys the waves in the autumn sun at South Bay, Scarborough.
  • The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu in front of York Minster’s Rose Window during its illumination, after he unveiled a preview of the sixth Illuminating York festival.
  • Double act jump by Damon Goulding, left, and Josh Molesworth at the ZooSkatePark in York.
  • Competitors line up before the Malton and Norton Town Crier Competition, held as part of Malton's first literature festival.
  • Rob Wilson, of Ye Olde Pie & Sausage Shoppe, whose Shambles Ghost sausage has reached the regional finals of Britain's star sausage competition.
  • The Lord Mayor of York, Coun Sue Galloway, lifts the cup with players and staff of the Co-operative Championship One play-off-winning York City Knights team.
  • Zombies try to recruit some more help for a Hallowe'en event at the York Maze.
  • Sheep farmer Richard Findlay puts a scarf around the statue of Constantine outside York Minster, where Yorkshire farmers celebrated National Wool Week.
  • Terrington Hall School pupils keep up the old tradition of playing conkers.
  • Alan Shearer, whose horse won at York's Knavesmire, signs an autograph
  • “ALL for one and one for all’ was the cry as actors from York Theatre Royal performed a sneak preview of their Three Musketeers show.
  • An explosion in the centre of York caused two men to be struck by flying concrete and left surrounding businesses without power at one of the busiest times of day.
  • 100-year-old Edith McHugh holds the baby meerkat born last month at Askham Bryan College. Edith said holding the meerkat was like trying to hold a jelly.
  • Ken Metcalfe, of Nunnington, tries to remove some of the mud from the street following the weekend's torrential rain.
  • The scene at Grosmont Station as hundreds of people turn out for the first day of the North Yorkshire Moors Steam Gala Weekend despite torrential rain.
  • Children defy the weather to ride their bikes through York on car free day.
  • Housing association maintenance officer Ron Bailey takes part in the gurning competition at a Alne Terrace street party in York
  • The girls from the Hold Your Banner High act which forms part of the Chinese State Circus which pitched its big top on Knavesmire in York
  • Crowds brave rain for Battle Of Britain memorial - RAF crews who saved Britain from invasion by the Nazis were remembered in a ceremony on the streets of York and in the skies above.
  • Students of the York-based Northern College of Costume dressed the part as they took part in a photo shoot to promote their final costume exhibition of the year.
  • Jenny Alexander, the assistant curator of fine art at York Art Gallery, models a hat from the new exhibition opening for the autumn.
  • The Dean of York, the Very Rev Keith Jones, toasts the topping out of the east front buttress with a glass of beer high over the city of York on the east end of the Minster.
  • One of the exhibits at the annual Elvington scarecrow festival.
  • Lee Heeb, of the Optic/Loyal Stunt Team in actiion at York Festival Of Cycling.
  • A view of York Racecourse reflected in the sunglasses of a young racegoer at The Press Family Race Day at Knavesmire.
  • Retained firefighters from Huntington damp down after 180 bales were set alight in a field near Grimston Bar.
  • Flamingos at Flamingo Land near Pickering.
  • A biker takes part in the vintage motorcycle run which started at the Yorkshire Air Museum at Elvington.
  • Limp Bizkit on stage at Leeds Festival.
  • Elle Nelson, of York band Honeytone Cody performs at the Galtres Festival, Crayke.
  • Dr David Hope, former Archbishop of York and Bishop of Wakefield, and the current Bishop of Wakefield, Stephen Platten, stroll past the steam engine following its dedication service at Pickering Station in honour of Eric Treacy, the Railway Bishop.
  • Johnny Marr, formerly of The Smiths, performs with Wakefield band The Cribbs at Leeds Festival.
  • Sharon Beadnell won the best small garden category in the annual York Housing Association best garden competition.
  • TV personality Tommy Walsh opens the Homesense store in York with competition winner Chris Marsden.
  • Friends celebrate their GCSE results at Huntington School in York.
  • Famous North Yorkshire landmark, the White Horse at Kilburn, gets a paint makeover.
  • Music lovers soak up the atmosphere of the Great British Proms Spectacular at Castle Howard.
  • Jockey Frankie Dettori launches into his trademark dismount after riding Rio De La Plata to victory in the Sky Bet Strensall Stakes at York Racecourse.
  • Sabena Power, the owner of Sole Power, which won the Coolmore Nunthorpe Stakes at odds of 100-1 on the last day of the Ebor Festival at York Racecourse.
  • York College student Alex Stevenson celebrates achieving four of the new A* grades in his A-level exams. The teenager was one of thousands of students from across York, North and East Yorkshire to get their results yesterday.
  • A spectacular hat seen at York Racecourse on Ladies Day during the Ebor Festival.
  • The atmosphere was relaxed yet subtly charged as friends, family and fans turned out to see One Night Only launch their eponymous second album at their local pub, The Royal Oak, in Helmsley.
  • Three happy racegoers in the County Stand cheer on the winner during the first day of the Ebor Festival at York Racecourse.
  • Artist Caitlin Jones works on a 16-foot mural of a horse and jockey made from Yorkshire produce ahead of the Ebor Festival at York Racecourse.
  • Tracy Butler with her prizewinning Bedlington terrier puppy, Ice, at Boon Hill Show, which is held at Newton-upon-Rawcliffe, near Pickering.
  • Douglas Haw, pictured before a service at York Minster, to mark the 65th anniversary of the end of the Second World War.
  • Buffy, a 19-week-old racoon, rides on a skateboard at the home of her owners, the Finlayson family, of Nether Poppleton, near York.
  • A giant conga in Parliament Street took place as part of York's Spontaneous Acts of Kindness event on Friday 13th August.
  • Fishmonger Andrew Kenny, of Cross of York's fish stall in Newgate Market, finds fame in Nestle's Milkybar TV advert.
  • Martin Coward, assistant to the Master Mason and stone carver with his grotesque which will eventually be placed high on the north quire pinnacles at York Minster.
  • Graeme Robertson, master of the Guild of Scriveners and Richard Watson, Sheriff of York, get their tastebuds ready for the traditional Assize of Ale.
  • An explosion ripped through a waste plant at Marston Moor Business Park in Tockwith. Dozens of firefighters tackled the blaze.
  • Newlyweds Ruth and Robert Farrow from York ditched a romantic honeymoon and instead joined a 50-strong military band on tour in Germany for their first holiday as a married couple.
  • Dozens of people take part in a pillow fight in Museum Gardens, York.
  • A young man takes a breather during a parade of engines at Pickering Traction Engine Rally.
  • Wilf Williams with his cat, Tup, who has been entered in the 2010 Felix Kitten Factor competition to find the UK's most mischievous kitten.
  • Candy the dog and trainer Becky Patrick are joined by Leo the Lion, representing the Lions clubs of Derwent and Minster,who are putting on a summer concert to raise money for Hearing Dogs For Deaf People centre at Beilby, near Pocklington.
  • A goat takes a nibble out of its pen cover at Thornton-le-Dale Show.
  • Heartbeat stars Tricia Penrose and David Lonsdale in Goathland to sign copies of the new book, Heartbeat: The Story Behind The Series.
  • A youngster came face-to-face with a tarantula at the Creature Features event held at Appleton Roebuck Primary School.
  • Sean Harman and Rob Smith, of YACRO, help to uncover and clean a nineteenth century mosaic of the crest of the City of York at Guildhall.
  • Runners taking part in the Jane Tomlinson York 10K pass by York Minster.
  • A group of Orthodox Jews visiting York run and jump down banking beside the Bar Walls in St Maurice’s Road, York, while waiting for a coach. This unusual sight was spotted by Press photographer Anthony Chappel-Ross
  • TV presenter Amanda Lamb visited York to film Street Market Chefs show
  • Punch and Judy stilt walkers Peter and Ayse Thornett spread the word about the National Railway Museum’s Yorkshire Day celebrations.
  • Jamie Wardley adds the finishing touches to to his sand sculpture at the National Railway Museum in York.
  • One of the grotesques created by craftsmen in York Minster stoneyard, which have been lifted into place at the top of the South Transept buttress on the Minster's east front.
  • Fern Grimble, from York, who has won a place at the prestigious Northern Ballet School's Summer School.
  • The elite riders turn into Church Street during the inaugural York Cycling City Races.
  • Madness in action at the Music Showcase event at York Racecourse.
  • From left, Lindsey Smith, Stuart Jarman and Chris Tuckley, celebrate the 650th anniversary of Barley Hall in York.
  • Film director Ken Loach receives an honorary degree from the University of York.
  • Scurry class 1 event in the main ring at the Great Yorkshire Show.
  • Barry the bald eagle in the country pursuits arena at the Great Yorkshire Show.
  • Supreme beef cattle championship at the Great Yorkshire Show.
  • An angora goat kid at the Great Yorkshire Show.
  • Neil Tattersall as Christ in the York Mystery Plays.
  • A woman blows bubbles during the first Bishy Road Street Party in Bishopthorpe Road, York.
  • Actress Ashley Jensen tries out a tractor for size while filming the BBC comedy, The Accidental Farmer, in Thornton-le-Dale, near Pickering.
  • Russell Marwood, York Archeological Trust’s battlefields projects officer, at the site of the Battle of Marston Moor, just ahead of the 350th anniversary of the battle on July 2.
  • Fans show their frustration watching England's World Cup match against Germany.
  • Runners taking part in the Race For Life event on Knavesmire, York.
  • Simply Red performing at Dalby Forest, near Pickering.
  • Keane performing at Dalby Forest, near Pickering.
  • This tower of computer parts is a contemporary art installation called Flood, by Susan Stockwell, in York St Mary's, Castlegate.
  • Neil and Lesley Dexter, from Barmby Moor, celebrate after scooping nearly £3.7m on the lottery.
  • Andy King, of Sainsbury's Foss Bank store, tries out one of the vuvuzelas on sale there.
  • Children from St Barnabas CE Primary School, off Leeman Road, buried a time capsule to be opened in 2050. This followed the discovery of a time capsule from 1886 which was found when the former school building was demolished to make way for houses.
  • Diane Lambert, daughter Lauren and Steven Blake celebrate the world cup outside their decorated home in Kingsway West, York.
  • Hundreds of Rainbows attended a Rainbow Princess party in the grounds of Bishopthorpe Palace, in York, to celebrate the 110th anniversary of the Girl Guide movemnet.
  • 'Big' Ian Donaghy, from local band Huge, sings a song with a smile for a group of American visitors outside York Minster, as York is named friendliest place to live in a survey by health insurance company National Friendly.
  • A girl with an elaborate mask marches with the parade at York Carnival.
  • A youngster comes face to face with a bearded dragon from Pets At Home. Staff and animals from the store paid a visit to Creepy Crawlies earlier this week.
  • A delivery van gets its front wheel stuck in hole which opened up in the road near Clifford's Tower in York.
  • Sun seekers enjoy the hot weather at the Feversham Arms swimming pool in Helmsley.
  • Botanist David Bellamy unveiled the new log cabin holiday homes at Wold View Holiday Park in Full Sutton.
  • The Balloon Tree Farmshop released 225 balloons in a race to raise money for York Guardian Angels charity.
  • Trevor Copley, left, a founder member of St Leonard’s Hospice, with York Minster's head verger Alex Carberry. The hospice will mark its 25th anniversary with a service at the Minster on June 6.
  • Racegoers enjoy the sunshine and hot temperatures at York Races.
  • Youngsters have fun in the sea at Whitby during the weekend's hot weather.
  • Miss England, Katrina Hodge, centre, with the 18 Miss York contestants who took part in a boot camp at the Roko gym in York.
  • York City fans console each other after the final whistle at Wembley, while one seated Minsterman supporter looks crushed.
  • An emotional Richard Brodie at the end of York City's match against Oxford United at Wembley.
  • A racegoer dressed in black and white walks past a zebra at York Racecourse.
  • Major Dave and fellow Sealed Knot members of Sir Thomas Glenham’s regiment, John Todd, Stuart Flower and Kevin Carr, guard their cannon on the battlefield at Marston Moor where they helped raise money for St Leonard’s Hospice
  • Jamie Fox does his impression of the Flying Man, safely harnessed, at Pocklington's Flying Man Festival.
  • Labour's Hugh Bayley is all smiles after being re-elected in the York Central seat.
  • York Outer Conservative candidate Julian Sturdy acknowledges his victory, flanked by LibDem opponent Madeleine Kirk.
  • he Lord Mayor of York, Councillor John Galvin (right), sees the funny side with Monster Raving Looney candidate Eddie Vee, at the York count.
  • One of the first ballot boxes arrives at the York count.
  • Spring is finally here, as this picture of blossom in the ruins of St Mary's Abbey shows.
  • Firefighters tackle a blaze at Martins of York rubbish depot in Outgang Lane Industrial Estate, Osbaldwick.
  • Chris Carruthers scores the winning goal in the Blue Square Premier play-off semi-final second leg against Luton. Luton Town 0, York City 1.
  • York City's Richard Brodie celebrates his goal against Luton Town in the Blue Square Premier play-off semi-final at Bootham Crescent. York city 1, Luton town 0.
  • The Duke of York shares a joke with the Lord Mayor of York, Coun John Galvin during a visit to the city.
  • A lamb jumps through the air in a field at Kexby, near York.
  • A veteran shares a joke during a group photograph on the steps of York Minster after a ceremony to commemorate The Battle of Kohima in 1944.
  • Tornado steams into York as part of a tour of the North East.
  • The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, outside Bishopthorpe Palace, celebrates receiving his York Ambassador Award in the York Tourism Awards.
  • Crowds gathered in York's Museum Gardens to watch a 21-gun salute to celebrate The Queen's 84th birthday.
  • Passengers who were stranded overseas due to the chaos caused by the Icelandic volcanic ash, arrive at Leeds/Bradford Airport.
  • Richard Smith and Brian Hughes on the Millennium Bridge to promote the male only 5k run which takes place in York this summer. The R U Taking the P? run will raise money for research into prostate cancer and other serious male health conditions.
  • The Press joined an appeal for information to help find York woman Lisette Dugmore who has been missing for almost two years. Dawn Lambert is pictured with a campaign poster.
  • Imogen Brown at York’s National Centre For Early Music, practising for A Young Person's Guide To The Brass Band
  • A HUGE procession of scooters made its way through Bishopthorpe in a poignant and final farewell to the man known to his friends as Vespa John. Wayne Lowery is pictured riding the beloved scooter of John Martin on the way to the funeral.
  • Almost 200 redundant Jarvis workers and their families marched through the streets of York to demand their jobs back.
  • A Nimrod MR2 XV 250 arrives at The Yorkshire Air Museum, at Elvington, to stand as a permanent tribute to the 14 British servicemen killed in Afghanistan when a Nimrod XV 230 crashed near Kandahar in September 2006.
  • Chef Harun Miah, with Akiqul Hussain, back left, and Hobib Ur Rahman of the Spice Mill, at Riccall. The restaurant delivered a takeaway meal to a regular customer in the south of France at the weekend.
  • Captain Jack Sparrow lookalike Steve Perry pictured in Shambles after it was revealed that film-makers were planning to shoot scenes for the next movie, Pirates Of The Caribbean On Stranger Tides, in the York street later this year.
  • Brick rubble and plaster lies on a bed at the house at Moor Lane, Haxby, after a Ford Mondeo was driven into it in the early hours of the morning.
  • Scarborough town crier Alan Booth starts the annual duck dash in Dalby Forest.
  • The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, held a session of open-air baptisms outside York Minster in front of hundreds of people.
  • Football supporters made a spectacle of themselves as they watched the first football match to be broadcast in 3D in York.
  • Amy Johnson lookalike Jessie Gillick stands beside an Avro 504 replica at the Yorkshire Air Museum, to promote a new exhibition, Pioneers Of Aviation.
  • A goose has laid her eggs in a concrete planter close to a field gun outside York Castle Museum.
  • The latest arrival at York's National Railway Museum is Spooner's Boat, which has been loaned by the Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railways for the exhibition, Once Upon A Tide.
  • Gillan Cruddas, chief executive of Visit York throws the dice to launch York’s very own game of Monopoly at York Minster with, right, the Very Rev. Keith Jones and Mark Marriott, of Winning Moves.
  • Daffodils are finally blooming in York at Cliffords's Tower.
  • Super slimmer Vicki Capes with her husband, Simon. Vicki, of Leeman Road, York, was awarded the title of Greatest Loser 2009 after shedding six stones and four pounds in a year.
  • Sixth form pupils from Bootham School, in York, took to the freezing ski slopes of Val d'Isere in the French Alps, dressed only in their boxer shorts, to raise money for Marie Curie Cancer Care.
  • A Chinook helicopter lands in the car park at the National Railway Museum, in York, as it prepares to take part in a Help For Heroes event on Saturday.
  • York City Knights half-back Casey Bromilow takes to the air as he scores a try in the second half of yesterday's 25-24 victory over South Wales Scorpions in Co-operative Championship One at Huntington Stadium.
  • Runners set off in the Sport Relief Mile, which took place at Rawcliffe Bar Country Park, near York.
  • A Canon Lee School pupil takes part in a Sport Relief tug of war between pupils and teachers.
  • Protester Jeff Rice dressed as an orang-utan outside the Nestle factory in Haxby Road, York, as Greenpeace questioned the company's green credentials.
  • Merry, the West Highland White Terrier, with owner Doreen Lancaster, of Acomb. Merry scooped a major award at Crufts, the world's largest dog show.
  • Leeds United players are put through their paces during an army training day at Strensall, in York.
  • David Jones, of Blackwell & Denton, gets to grips with one of the classic vacuum cleaners which the company are selling off, including an old Croydon model which was in use before the Second World War.
  • Claire Whittaker and her son, Sam, cuddle a newborn lamb at the Mother's Day farm event at Askham Bryan College, near York.
  • York Musical Theatre Company has received personal good wishes from Dame Vera Lynn ahead of their nostalgic concert, Some Sunny Day, a tribute to Dame Vera and women in war. Pictured, from left, Jenny Cohen, Moira Murphy and Kelly Derbyshire.
  • Ian Wood, who is partially sighted and wheelchair-bound, will be taking part in the Sport Relief Mile later this month. Ian is pictured with with his personal assistant, Clara Hudson, who will be pushing him around the course.
  • Rosie, the Little Owl, at York Falconry, Askham Bryan College.
  • Tree surgeons navigate the upper-most branches of trees close to York Minster during the annual winter maintenance programme.
  • 70th anniversary of the Home Guard at the Yorkshire Air Museum. Promoting Dad’s Army are, from left, Andre West as Sergeant Wilson, Roy Goodland as Corporal Jones, Ray Dobson as Private Fraser and Andy Dixon as Private Pike.
  • Shambles, York, which has been voted Britain's prettiest route in the Google Street Views Awards.
  • The cast of Spike Milligan's Adolf Hitler: My Part In His Downfall, which is to be performed at the Theatre Royal, pictured in Parliament Street, York.
  • The Dean of York, the Very Rev Keith Jones, right, and Philip Harkness, of Harkness Roses, plant a Minster Rose in Dean's Park. The rose has been developed for the Minster and the colour echoes the centrepiece of the Rose Window.
  • Berwick Kaler and Theatre Royal staff in costume join pantomime fans as they queue for tickets for the 2010 pantomime, Jack And The Beasnstalk.
  • Cars submerged by flood water from the River Ouse on Queen's Staith in York.
  • Chris Craven with one of the new lambs born on his farm near Kexby.
  • Dale Nichol, who plans to make a film about Dick Turpin, pictured at the highwayman’s grave in St George’s graveyard, York.
  • York at twilight. The Minster from Precentor's Court on a February evening.
  • One of York's busiest streets, Gillygate, is closed to traffic for six weeks while workers replace old metal gas mains.
  • Vikings march past the remains of the burning longship during the finale of the Jorvik Viking Festival on Knavesmire.
  • Viking forces brandish their weapons in Museum Gardens on the last day of the Jorvik Viking Festival.
  • On the first day of Lent, the Archbishop of York took to the streets as part of the Say One For Me campaign. Albert and Joan Hird, of East Yorkshire asked him to say a prayer and bless a ring to celebrate their golden wedding.
  • The Valentine's Day mixed open race at the Sinnington Hunt Point-to-Point event at Duncombe Park, near Helmsley.
  • Time Team star Tony Robinson gets to grip with an ancient helmet as he officially opened the Jorvik Viking Centre in York after a £1 million refurbishment.
  • Chow the tiger at Flamingoland.
  • A charity army assault course took place in memory of Lance Bombardier Matthew Hatton, to raise funds for Help for Heroes.
  • The first snowdrops of the year in the Woodland Walk at Burton Agnes Hall, near Bridlington.
  • A railway guard’s jacket from 1914 is reunited with Malcolm Dilworth, the grandson of its original owner, at York’s National Railway Museum with, left, Mr Dilworth’s wife, Anne, and Alaina Schmisseur, museum conservator,
  • Josh McGahan, left, of Bishopthorpe, demonstrates his skills alongside Iain Harvey, of Pocklington, during a parkour session at the Pineapple Performing Arts class at Huntington School.
  • Hippos wallow together in the mud at Flamingoland.
  • Florist Lesley Price, of Floral Elegance, in Acomb, with the saucy mannequin used in the store's Valentine window display.
  • Members of 101 Regiment Royal Artillery fire the salute, in York's Museum Gardens, to celebrate the anniversary of the Queen's accession to the throne.
  • Laura Turner, York Art Gallery’s curator of art, at the exhibit Susan Smith, by Craigie Horsfield, in the Contemporary Arts Society exhibition.
  • Chief pharmacist Martin Phillips with the new robot dispensary system in the pharmacy at York Hospital.
  • Ten people are arrested after 160 police officers mount a massive drugs operation at the travellers' site at Clifton Moor in York.
  • Mark Lumby, left, and Tony Baxter, of Printing Company Ceejay UK, place a Bootham sign over Kit Kat as they change the York City ground signs.
  • Steve Davis, owner of the former Terry’s site, celebrates after his plans for the complex were approved by City of York Council.
  • Stylist Alice Lambert prepares model Hayley Jones at York College's annual hair and beauty competition.
  • York Minster is bathed in red light as the British Heart Foundation launched National Heart Month.
  • Race For Life 2010 is launched in Parliament Street, York, with, front, Rachel Speight, and back, from left, Melanie Hudson, Jenny Key, Claire Wase, Rikki Jackson and Imogen Johnson
  • Keith Mulhearn as Maximus Gluteus conducting his Roman tour for the Residents’ First Weekend starting at York Minster
  • Steve Cram and Mike Tomlinson at the York 10K launch at York Minster.
  • Lindsey Smith, left, and Zoe Walker at the Stonegate Voices Exhibition at Barley Hall where copies of York's oldest newspapers have gone on display.
  • Young people in York come together to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. All Saints School choir are pictured on stage at the Holocaust memorial evening at Central Methodist Church.
  • The new Bishop of Whitby, Martin Warner, after his consecration at York Minster, with the Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu.
  • Rick Dorwald, of Haxby, enjoys a game of pool with the Lord Mayor of York at the party to mark his 100th birthday. The the Lady Mayoress, Val Galvin, and the Sheriff of York, Gill Burnett look on.
  • Lt Col David O’Kelly, regimental secretary of the Yorkshire Regiment, dusts off the Keeper Of Souls statue, designed to acknowledge Prince Andrew’s wish to celebrate the work done by serving soldiers, which has arrived at the Yorkshire Regiment Museum
  • David Rennie, managing director of Nestlé Confectionery, launches the Fairtrade Kit Kat at the Co-op supermarket in Hull Road, York.
  • Runners taking part in York's Brass Monkey Half Marathon, organised by Knavesmire Harriers. The race was won by Matthew Pearson.
  • Hairy Bikers Simon King and Dave Myers during a signing for their new book, Mums Know Best, at the Waterstone's bookstore in York.
  • The Lord Mayor of York, Coun John Galvin, is joined by the civic party to have his blood pressure checked at Asda Monks Cross and help promote a new Stroke Association service.
  • Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw next to Mallard at the National Railway Museum in York after he pledged to keep free admission to the NRM if Labour is re-elected at the General Election.
  • The multi-million pound renovation of Allerton Castle, near Knaresborough, returns the stately home to splendour following a devastating fire five years ago.
  • Lady Peckett's Yard in York. York City Council has announced it is to draw up a definitive map of York's many snickelways.
  • Rebecca Thompson, superintendent of works at York Minster, with one of the new grotesques which will eventually be placed high out of view at the top of the south buttress on the East Front of the Minster.
  • Helen Limbert, of the RSPCA, with one of the many hamsters needing a home following a population explosion at the Landing Lane facility.
  • York City celebrate Chris Carruthers’ opening goal against Hayes and Yeading. The 4-1 match victory was City's eighth successive league win, which set a new club record.
  • Scientists working on a project to launch a probe to Mars visited York to examine a meteorite which hit North Yorkshire in 1881. Known as the Middlesbrough Meteorite, it is currently housed in the Yorkshire Museum in York.
  • Clare Fletcher, right, learning and community officer, and Lynsey Craggs, head of visitor reception, enjoy the 18th century card playing which will be introduced as a visitor activity at Beningbrough Hall, near York.
  • Suzanna Barker, of Busy Farmers, at Sutton-on-the-Forest, near York, with her Kune Kune pigs. The pint-size pigs are becoming increasingly popular as pets.
  • Volunteers shovel the snow off the Bootham Crescent pitch after the club’s appeal for help.
  • Melting snow near the River Ouse shows a slow thaw beginning in York.
  • One of York's oldest people, Sally Cartwright, celebrated her 104th birthday with a visit from York Philharmonic Male Voice Choir.
  • An aerial view of a snow-covered York Minster.
  • Bishopthorpe Palace groundstaff Garry O'Reagan, left, and Mark Waller clear snow as the white stuff continues to fall at the residence of the Archbishop of York.
  • Parents and pupils walk away from Derwent Infant & Junior School, one of the many schools in the region which had to close due to bad weather.
  • The scene after a car skidded onto the railway track at the level crossing at Hagg Lane, near South Duffield. The driver escaped before the train hit the car causing only minor damage.
  • Ian Tomlinson, Dunja Kielmann and Sarah Brown hold stained glass panels from York Minster after they were rescued from the fire at the Minster Stoneyard last week.
  • A pedestrian walks over the hills at Kilnwick Percy, near Pocklington, after last night's snowfall.
  • The scene on the Toll Bridge in Selby as investigators examined the area last after a body was found in the river Ouse.
  • York City fans celebrate their team's goal against Stoke City in the FA Cup third round tie at Stoke's Britania Stadium.
  • York City centre-back Luke Graham celebrates as Neil Barrett, partially hidden, wheels away having headed his side in front against Stoke City.
  • Angelina Campagna, of Wigginton, with Cole Leonard Leeper, the first baby born in 2010 at York Hospital
  • Members of the Derwent Hunt exercise their horses and hounds on New Year’s Day

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