Lifestyle November gardening tips It’s now getting a lot colder and there’s less daylight hours. But don’t put your garden to bed for the winter just yet! You can still pot up some colourful winter containers, start planning next year’s garden and of course, don’t forget to feed your By The Editor • 3 min read
Business Holiday bookings helping Yorkshire animals in need Huddersfield based travel agent Jetset Not Just Travel has teamed up with the local RSPCA branch to help raise money towards the £1.5m it needs to find every year to care for animals in need in Halifax, Huddersfield, Bradford and district. The RSPCA animal centre, at Wade Street in By The Editor • 1 min read
Lifestyle Punk Ass Poultry flocks to Leeds for city art project An award-winning photographer is making the streets of Leeds his own art gallery walls in November, when he thrusts a flock of giant punk birds into the city centre. From Friday 30th October, the colourful Punk Ass Poultry exhibition will take flight in Leeds, with a bold takeover of over By The Editor • 2 min read
Health & Wellbeing Never Hungry Again Calderdale’s kind communities are uniting in their shared ambition to end child hunger in the borough for good. In response to national calls to extend free school meals beyond term times, organisations and individuals across Calderdale and the country are rallying to help, donating food and money to support By The Editor • 3 min read
Health & Wellbeing Pump up your beauty regime Planning to carve up a pumpkin for Halloween? Why stop there? Spruce up (or start) your DIY beauty routine by adding pumpkin to the mix. These two recipes: a facial mask and a body scrub will leave you glowing and fresh. Pumpkin is beneficial not only for your health but By The Editor • 1 min read
Yorkshire-Kitchen Pumpkin Punch Serve up a Halloween cocktail in style with this fun pumpkin punch recipe. Not only is the fruity, Caribbean-inspired cocktail delicious to drink on its own but serving it in a hollowed-out pumpkin is a great way to show your Halloween creativity and get the party started. • Serves 8 • 10 By The Editor • 1 min read
Travel and Environment TUI launches winter 2021/22 and summer 2022 programmes TUI UK has launched winter 2021 and 2022 holidays from Doncaster Sheffield and is set to put summer 2022 holidays on sale from 5th November, including thousands of free kids’ places, low deposits from £75 per person and £0 deposit on direct debit bookings made online on offer. This comes By The Editor • 3 min read
Business Wakefield care home manager nominated in prestigious industry awards A care home manager in Wakefield has been nominated for an award in one of the care sector’s most prestigious awards. Marsha Tuffin from Lofthouse Grange & Lodge in Lofthouse has been shortlisted in the Registered Manager category of The Great British Care Awards Yorkshire & Humber region - By The Editor • 1 min read
Yorkshire-Kitchen Raisthorpe wins Great British Food award Artisan drinks producer Raisthorpe Distillery has won a Great British Food Award for one of its premium Yorkshire Tonics. Its Pink Grapefruit tonic triumphed in the fruit juice and mixers category of the prestigious awards for 2020. The category was judged by critic and food writer William Sitwell who said: By The Editor • 2 min read
Business Employment lawyer launches Fair Redundancy Pledge A Yorkshire-based employment lawyer is calling on the UK’s major employers to be more open and transparent on their redundancy plans for 2020-21 and beyond. Hannah Strawbridge, founder of Halifax-based Han Law, an employment law and HR specialist, wants big companies to sign up to the Fair Redundancy Pledge. By The Editor • 2 min read
Health & Wellbeing Yorkshire charities’ collaboration helps over 400 people stay socially connected Huddersfield-based Yorkshire Children’s Centre (YCC) has partnered with Age UK Calderdale and Kirklees (C&K) to deliver a telephone befriending service for the district’s most vulnerable people, as well as an app to help manage demand. Since the service was set up – during the start of the By The Editor • 2 min read
Travel and Environment Is there wildlife in Yorkshire Author: Philippa Kaye We tend not to think of Yorkshire as having much wildlife, other far flung destinations have secured the monopoly on that. Africa is an obvious choice, famous for the Big 5, lion, leopard, rhinoceros, elephant and cape buffalo, and of course there are also zebra and giraffe; By The Editor • 5 min read
