Next Friday, 4 November, HM The Queen attends a service of dedication for the restored south transept roof of York Minster, destroyed by fire four years ago.
Margaret Phillips, personal assistant to the Chapter Clerk at York, tells the story of the fire and reveals the human side of the tragedy. It's the tale not only of the engineers who scoured the land for English oak trees and the craftsmen who carved and gilded them, but also of the primate and the puncture, of the commonsense of the deanery cat and of the burser who returned from holiday to a telephone call at 2.30am which simply said 'Welcome home, Ken, the Minster's on fire'.
BBC North East