led with parks, cafés lu ul U l and bars. cafés For the millions of tourists that visit York each year, it's an amazing place. But if you're a teenager growing up there, it can seem like nothing ever happens. No famous bands have ever started in York, no movie stars were born there and it rarely makes the national news. So it's always strange when something does happen and my little hometown hits the headlines. As we were putting this issue together, the UK was hit by some heavy winter storms, and in some areas of northern England the flood defences failed. Newspapers, including the Bangkok Post, had pictures of flooded communities, including some houses very close to my mother's home. The odd thing about these pictures is that they're be