HOPES, dreams and expectations from ten years ago will be coming back to haunt a group of former York students this weekend.

A one-hour documentary film was made of the College of Ripon and York St John scholars during their final year at college which ended with a graduation ceremony at York Minster in the summer of 1991.

The film will be played for the first time in public tomorrow.

The St John's 2000 Party is based around the film which posed questions to a group of 70 students asking them what they thought their lives (and the world in general) would be like in the year 2000.

The video was undercut with footage from life at St John's in 1990 and 1991 and when finished, it was stored away, never to be seen again, until this weekend.

So, tomorrow the group will meet at Lord Mayor's Walk Students' Union to see how their aspirations compare with reality.

Students who made predictions in the film include Ian Seddon, who said: "I'd like to live in a spacious flat in Barcelona or Madrid. Unfortunately, I think I'll be living in Wigan or the surrounding area."

In fact, he is a teacher living in the Midlands.

Heather Robertson said she hoped to be a film director and only two months ago, she did manage to secure her dream job.

One of the more inaccurate suggestions was from Jonathan Kennedy, who said: "Margaret Thatcher will win the next election and will go on from strength to strength and take over the world."

The film's director, Dominic Hall-Smith, said: "I said that I would be working in radio or music but I'm now a trained counsellor, working with adults with learning difficulties. So I couldn't have been more wrong."

He added: "Of course, with the majority of participants being idealistic students at the time, many of their proposed paths in life have ended up being radically different to their 1990 ambitions.

"However, there are also some examples of almost prophetic accuracy, but we will have to wait until the SJ2000 party to find out exactly how many dreams have become reality."

PICTURE: Graduates at York Minster in 1991