YORKSHIRE Day has been marked in style in one town, where yarn bombers have transformed the town centre with knitted Yorkshire icons including Wensleydale cheese and woollen cricketers.

People of Thirsk woke up this morning to the spectacular creations which filled the historic town centre.

Among the creations sat on bollards and attached to lampposts and benches included a knitted Wensleydale cheese sat next to a small bowl of knitted olives, a woollen air ambulance crew attending an emergency, a cricket who may or may not have been Geoffrey Boycott and a tribute to Black Sheep Beer.

Events took place throughout the county to mark Yorkshire Day, August 1. It included the reading of the Yorkshire Declaration of Integrity, which is usually read in York in all the languages used in Yorkshire since its earliest known reference in Anglo Saxon times, including Old English, Latin, Old Norse and modern English. This year's declaration referred to "within these boundaries of 1,142

years standing", which is a reference to its Viking foundation in 875AD.

Another event which has become a traditional part of the day is the annual Yorkshire pudding tossing competition and straw bale race at York Maze, to find the adult and child who could throw their Yorkshire pudding the furthest.