Get into the Christmas spirit with these highlights from the Yorkshire Evening Post Carol Service 2024 at Leeds Minster.
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00:00I'm the editor of the Yorkshire Reading Post in Leeds and we're here at Leeds Minster for
00:25the Yorkshire Reading Post carol service at 2024.
00:28It's my third year of running the service as editor since taking over in 2022.
00:34It's been wonderful every year, it's lovely to see so many people turning out.
00:37This year we've got upwards of 500 people.
00:41The carol service raises money for Martin House Children's Hospice, it also raises money
00:45for the Minster here, and it also raises money for Mission Christmas which is a YEP backed
00:51appeal that aims to make sure that no child in Leeds goes without a present every Christmas.
00:57This was the first registration and was taken while Corinthians was the governor from Syria.
01:03I'm James Connolly and I'm a reporter at the Yorkshire Evening Post and I was speaking
01:08here tonight at Leeds Minster as part of the Yorkshire Evening Post carol service and it
01:13was lovely to hear all the amazing music from the YEP brass band and the choir.
01:20It was very heartening to see all the presents left under the tree.
01:28My name's Canon Paul Mabry, I'm rector of this wonderful building here in the centre
01:51of Leeds, Leeds Minster, and we've had such an enjoyable event tonight.
01:57Christmas, the season, Advent that we're in until Christmas itself, is not always a
02:06happy time of year for people, but yet people want to be together and an event like this
02:16shows that and people come from all over, across the city.
02:20There are people who never come into this building any other time of the year other
02:24than for this service and many people were saying to me, I'll see you again next year.
02:29Christmas is definitely on now, it has to be.
02:33It's the start of everything for me, this service.
02:35I've been doing it now for, I don't know, 15, 20 years and it's been a tremendous journey
02:41to come here every year and to see the enthusiasm of everybody in the service, the smiles.
02:48We know that it's around the corner and the band were played perfectly again tonight,
02:53the choir was magnificent and yeah, Christmas is around the corner.
02:56Merry Christmas!