YORK City's Christmas Carol Service will be held at St Luke's Church, Burton Stone Lane, on Wednesday night.

The evening will start at 7pm followed by mince pies in the KitKat Crescent Social Club afterwards.

Manager Billy McEwan and some first-team players will be in attendance.

The club are still also welcoming gifts for this year's Minstermen Christmas Appeal.

Gifts such as clothing, toiletries, bedding, chocolate, biscuits, books and games will be distributed to the city's homeless people on December 20 and anybody wanting to contribute to the appeal can drop their present into the club shop by Monday, December 19.

York Minstermen are holding their Christmas party on December 29 with tickets for the party costing £6 for members and £8 for non-members.

The party takes place in the KitKat Crescent Social Club and starts at 7pm with musical entertainment and a buffet.

All party-goers will also receive one free drink and entry into a prize draw.

Anybody wanting to reserve tickets for the party should e-mail ian@yorkminstermen.org.uk or phone 0781 4143593.

Alternatively, you can buy your ticket from Ian Tyssen at the information desk in the club shop prior to City's home games against Northwich and Scarborough.

Harrogate Minstermen's special guests at their next branch meeting on Monday night will be City midfielders Emmanuel Panther and Darren Dunning.

Panther and Dunning will take part in a question and answer session at the Ivy Cottage in Knaresborough from 8pm.

The Open the Box prize fund is now also up to £130 and a free Members Draw will offer the chance to win £125. Members and non-members are welcome to attend.

Frankly, Mr Shankly

Paul Allinson, of Cawood Road, Wistow, and B Smith, of Whenby Grove, York, were the lucky winners of our competition to win the 'F is For Football' book.

Both readers correctly identfied late, great Liverpool manager Bill Shankly as the man behind our famous quote taken from the book.

The quote was "Some people believe football is a matter of life and death; I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that."

Updated: 10:00 Saturday, December 10, 2005