FORMER pupils of a York school met up once again - 60 years after they first met.

The women all attended Mill Mount School from 1940 to 1947 and it was the 15th consecutive year they have held a reunion at the Holgate Hill Hotel.

About 40 former pupils attended the day which involved much catching up over a buffet lunch.

Said ex-Mill Mount School pupil Joan Coulthard: "After the first reunion people have kept in touch over the years.

"It was so relaxed and so pleasant. It's always nice to meet old friends again."

PICTURE: CELEBRATION: Hazel Hart, owner of the Holgate Hill Hotel, who has hosted the Mill Mount Grammer School old girls' reunion for 15 years, holds the cake for committee members, from left, Joan Coulthard (nee Arrand), Eileen Connell (nee Holderness), and Margaret Street (nee Wells) and Mary Anderson (nee Morley), who all started the school in 1940