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Cat saved by firefighters A CAT had to be rescued from a car engine compartment. North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue say they were called out at about 10.15am yesterday (April 25) to St Johns Street just outside the Bar Walls in York. A spokesman for the service said: A crew from York attended an incident involving a cat stuck in a car engine. The crew managed to locate the car owner and popped the bonnet. The cat was then released using crew power only.
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Bar walls in York will turn purple for the Census A YORK landmark will turn purple at the weekend to help celebrate a national poll. The city’s historic Bar Walls as well as St Michael le Belfrey Church next to York Minster will be highlighted in purple in celebration of the Census, the once-a-decade survey which gives a snapshot of UK life. They will join more than a hundred buildings and landmarks across England and Wales by lighting up purple to celebrate the upcoming census and its importance to communities. The event is being organised by The Office for National Statistics (ONS) to raise awareness of census day on March 21, a survey that happens every ten years and gives a picture of all the people and households in England and Wales.
Eric Coates - then and now A FILM of a young York schoolboy giving a tour of historic York in 1976 for the BBC set many of us on a trip down memory lane. We asked readers if they knew the boy - Eric Coates - and several got in touch to tell us they had been at school with him at the 1970s at Archbishop Holgate s Secondary School, played in the football team with him and that he was from Heworth. One mentioned he had studied at Oxford, become a solicitor and was now also a professional artist. And with that information, we were able to track down Eric - and get his verdict on the re-emergence of