NEW Year's Eve is always a mixture of the boisterous and the emotional. This year, as every year, revellers massed round York Minster to see out the old year and cheer in the new.

York is lucky to have the gothic beauty of the Minister at all times - and on this particular night of the year, there is no finer place in which to celebrate.

Popping champagne corks, lively cheers and fireworks dancing in the night sky all helped to usher in 2005. Happy New Year to everyone.

Updated: 10:12 Monday, January 03, 2005