YOU can't beat being Yorkshire. And, even if you're living at the other side of the world, your ties with England's biggest county are never forgotten.

The Evening Press has received several e-mails from North Yorkshire folk who have moved abroad, but will still be sporting a white rose today to mark Yorkshire Day.

Paul Whitehead left York to live in Australia in 1965 - before Yorkshire Day even existed, however he is still able to keep in touch with Yorkshire way of life through the Internet.

"Recently I have found all the things I remember like the Evening Press and York City Football Club which is fantastic to read about."As for things that remind me of Yorkshire; in my hallway I have three prints of paintings that my uncle did. They are of Robin Hood's Bay, York Minster and Bolton Abbey. We also have a tapestry of Shambles and some charcoal sketches of York."

Meanwhile, an Internet user known as Alfred "Archie" Stabler, from Tasmania, wrote to tell us about his Yorkshire links. He has lived in Tasmania for 49 years, but says that as soon as people visit his home they realise he is from Yorkshire.

"We have calendars with Yorkshire scenes, a whole gallery of framed York and district pictures on a wall upstairs, a number of replica coats of arms of York and printouts from the on-line Evening Press."

Alfred and his wife, Phyll, plan to celebrate Yorkshire Day in style by starting the day with a full English fry-up, followed by curd tarts for lunch and fat rascals and top-off at dinner with a roast of topside and Yorkshire puddings and sticky toffee pudding for afters.

"We frequently reminisce about Yorkshire - of 50 to 60 years ago mostly - although we know what York is like now having visited quite often - I guess you could say we're proud to be Yorkshire."

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