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  • From left, Peter Cobbold, Jeremy Jones, Father Tim Bywater and Ginette Cobbold
  • A youngster from Clifton Brownies takes part in a musical session organised by York Rotters.
  • Pupils of Cundall Manor School, near Thirsk, have knitted thousands of squares to be made into blankets for AIDS orphans in South Africa as part of the Knit-A-Square Appeal.
  • York College students are organising a gourmet evening and auction to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support.
  • Zeta Sutton with her mum Sharon outside their brightly decorated house in Tang Hall Lane, York
  • Irene Gudgon, who turns 100 next month, and her son-in-law Clarence Franklin pull a cracker at The Crown Inn, Great Ouseburn
  • Cathy Beacroft, Sheila Crabtree and Don and Audrey McKenzie sing Christmas songs with Clarence Franklin on the keyboard
  • Pensioners being served by the students of Huntington School during their sixth-form panto. Picture: Robert Nemeti
  • Tadcaster Grammar School’ cake stall for flood victims in Pakistan. Picture: Wendy Binns
  • Daniel Swithenbank, James Richard Robinson, Matthew Shaun Welburn, Stephen Luke Dean and Cail Lloyd, who are all new recruits for the Yorkshire Regiment
  • Wilberfoss Primary School pupil Adam Webster chats with York City manager Gary Mills and members of his squad during the club’s annual festive visit to the childrens’ ward at York Hospital
  • Knavesmire pub manager Tony Griffiths, left, and barman James Muir dressed for the beach party
  • Neil Trafford prepares for St Andrew’s Day at the Rook and Gaskill
  • Former Leeds United player Steve Balcombe and his two sons, William, aged eight, and Thomas, six, and the cheque for Martin House Hospice
  • Dolls house creator Julie Jackson and Janet Kirkwood, editor of Dolls House Magazine, in front of Julie’s giant dolls house at York Racecourse
  • Eleanor Taylor, left, from Murton, York, who hosted the Arts Award fifth birthday celebration with TV presenter Ben Shephard, right, at Shakespeare’s Globe, London, with young poet Josh May, whom they interviewed
  • Cath Mortimer and supporters of Planet Southbank give away free apple pie in Bishopthorpe Road, York
  • The Levellers’ members Jon Sevink and Simon Friend, project co-ordinator with the Friends of St Nicholas Fields John Brierley and York Rotters project officer Catherine Bamford
  • FUNDRAISERS: Waitress Heidi Haywood with Pizza Express managers Eddie Farnell, Dan Furby, Idriss Abbaz and Dash Alushaj
  • Coun Sue Galloway, chats with blind artists at the Space 109 opening of the World Sight Day posters exhibition. Also pictured: Pauline Whelan, Gordon Evans, June Gagley, Marie Gogget and Roger Brough with arts therapist Susan Simpson
  • From left, driver Dave Simpson, Street Scene supervisor Mark Stockhill, the Mayor of Pickering, Joan Lovejoy, the Mayor of Malton, Jason Fitzgerald-Smith and the Mayor of Norton, Paul Farndale.
  • Mohammed Jahid and Lee Nafiz, from Malton Spice, serve some treats to Lucy MacPhee, Poppy Suff, Jack Machen and Amelia MacPhee and Housemartins out-of-school club staff Janet Dale and Joanne Preston
  • Gerry Carter, who is retiring from the North Yorkshire Moors Railway engineering department
  • Sharon Hornby, Freddy Bulmer and Josh Robinson show the type of moustaches judges would like to see
  • St Leonard’s Hospice fundraiser Judith Wilson with Bishopthorpe Camera Club members, from left, Brian Oxley, Jim Wilson and Roger Poyser. Picture: Roger Walton
  • Matron Liz Ross with a portable baby monitor presented by York Lions President Jack Ord watched by Baby Lifeline representative Katie Edwards
  • Katie Needham, consultant in public health, presents the You’re Welcome award to York Hospital Trust chief executive Patrick Crowley and the sexual health team at Monkgate
  • Scouts Tim Brown, Joe Dudley and Alexander Maddison with Roy Bayles, of Ainsty Rotary Club, and Bishopthorpe councillor John Galvin
  • Lord and Lady Halifax admire the new wall hanging at the Regional Agricultural Centre, based on the David Hockney painting Going Up Garrowby Hill The adaptation of Hockney’s Going Up Garrowby Hill has been recreated as six-metre tall
  • Staff members at Animalcare, on the Chessingham Industrial Estate in Dunnington, who all dressed in pink to raise funds for the Breast Cancer Campaign
  • NEW VENTURE: Lisa Furbey, front, and her staff, from left, John Sutcliffe, Lynn Lawday and Karen Bardy, at the new Edinburgh Woollen Mill shop at Poppleton Garden Centre
  • Picture: Robert Nemeti
  • Picture: Robert Nemeti
  • Stephen Price, director of the Shepherd Building Group, presents the cheque to Cliff Laurie, chairman of the Fulford branch of the Royal British Legion, with standard bearer Michael Wilson and appeal organiser Dick Shaw
  • The Best Western Monkbar Hotel’s assistant manager Ben Richardson with a selection of silk ties

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