TODAY is the day to put the yell into yellow. That most cheerful and optimistic of colours really has something to shout about.

This is a day for bananas, custard, Yellow Submarines, Yellow Pages, Mr Yellow, sunflowers and, of course, the sun, which has managed to shine for once.

Yellow Day in York today marks the final push in the St Leonard's Hospice 2000 Appeal, which now stands a tantalising £46,000 short of its £2 million total.

So wear, eat or do something yellow. And if you don't, well, you're just yellow.

Updated: 10:59 Thursday, June 21, 2001