IN the week the latest Harry Potter movie opened, two York schoolgirls were enjoying a real-life adventure.

It were more Enid Blyton than JK Rowling: off exploring in the school holidays, they discovered buried treasure.

If this were a Famous Five story, the find would send Bee Boon and Rachael Waite (plus Dick, George and Timmy the Dog) on a daredevil escapade, involving ruined castles, reckless smugglers and lashings of ginger beer.

It may not happen like that in Acomb. But who knows? This is only the first chapter of Two On The Treasure Trail.

Updated: 10:10 Tuesday, June 01, 2004