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HARRY POTTER fans will know how Gemma Thirsk feels. Here she is photographed in The Press aged 12 holding the seventh Harry Potter book and a certificate for being the first to purchase the book at from W H Smiths at Monks Cross. Gemma, who was then a pupil at Joseph Rowntree School, York, queued for four hours to get her copy. We tracked Gemma down. What does she remember about that time - and the book? "I don’t really remember much about queuing up, although I do remember going st...

On May 9, 1985, the rockers surprised onlookers and delighted fans by busking in Kings Square! They also paraded down Petergate, and as our pictures from our archive show - they were all in black leather, with plenty of swagger! Former Press employee Kate Neighbour remembers seeing them. She recalls: "They walked up the street, and there were all these people standing around watching them," she says. "Eventually the police came and moved everybody on." Legend has it that The Clashs im...

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