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Female-led Leeds marketing agency celebrates fifth anniversary

Marketing agency Youbee Media, which was founded during the peak of the pandemic in 2020, to help businesses not just ride out the challenging landscape ahead, but to thrive even during the trickiest of times, celebrates its fifth year in business this month. This milestone comes at an exciting time for the firm, which has just achieved its best year of growth yet, with turnover up 62% compared to last year. This substantial growth has primarily been driven by an increase in retainer clients a

Strictly Come Dancing live UK tour

23 January – 15 February 2026 Tickets on sale now strictlycomedancinglive.com The Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour is back for 2026 - and more dazzling than ever before! Hot on the heels of Strictly's sensational launch show last weekend, today we announce the dates, the judges and the host for next year's much anticipated UK arena tour. Get your score cards ready and your dancing shoes on as we welcome the return of Strictly legends Shirley Ballas, Anton Du Beke and Craig Revel Horwood to

Source strengthens its team and marks the next exciting chapter

Leeds-based performance-led marketing communications agency, Source Marketing , has strengthened its growing team with the appointment of two new PR and social media executives. Annabel Wales and Ella Adams, both bring bold ideas, creativity and new energy to the business and will work across a wide range of clients including MERKUR, Bellway Homes, Skipton Business Finance and the British Engines Group. In their roles, they will be responsible for everything from building strong client relat

Founder celebrates after reaching the national finals of the Woman Who Awards

Katie Geddes, founder of The Dance Studio Leeds, who champions the benefits of dance for mental health and wellbeing, is celebrating after reaching the finals of the Woman Who Solopreneur Awards 2025. Katie has been supporting the local dance community for the last 16 years, sharing her passion for dance and the positive impact it has for both body and mind. Her most recent projects - 'Let's Dance Leeds' and 'Lunchtime Boogies' – which launched earlier this year, have seen Katie introduce danc

Leeds' Propaganda delivers national TV/Social campaign for Cloud Nine

Propaganda Brand Consultancy has delivered a seven-figure integrated campaign for styling tools brand, Cloud Nine, including their biggest ever TV partnership with Channel 4. Alongside 30-second and 10-second TV spots that will air during flagship programs like The Great British Bake Off, Gogglebox and The Inheritance, this campaign also features co-branded content for Channel 4 and Cloud Nine’s social channels. This campaign sees Cloud Nine go above the line for the first time since Propagand

Pickering attraction adds twilight pumpkin picking to its Halloween experience

Further to the sell-out success of its inaugural event last year, the team at a Pickering farm shop and café has announced plans for a Halloween event for families and young children. From 25th to 31st October, the Cedarbarn Farm Shop and Café will host a Halloween experience comprising pumpkin picking and carving, crafts and games, plus a ride on the ghost train. New for 2025 is a family-friendly twilight session where visitors can pick their pumpkins by lamplight. The event has been organi

Yorkshire Building Society support local women

Senior leaders from Yorkshire Building Society’s digital and marketing teams joined forces with employment charity Smart Works to support a major jobs fair in Bradford, aimed at helping local women overcome barriers to employment. Held at Bradford City Football Club on 25th September, the event marked the launch of Smart Works’ expansion into Bradford, made possible by a substantial grant from Yorkshire Building Society Charitable Foundation’s Building Bradford Skills Fund. The fair welcomed 2

Data On Demand appoints industry leader Denise Crossley

Data On Demand, the multi-award-winning provider of data and insights that help organisations create better outcomes for consumers, today announced the appointment of Denise Crossley to its Board. Denise is the former Group CEO & current NED of Lantern Group and served for more than 20 years as a non-executive director of the Credit Services Association (CSA). She brings extensive experience in debt recovery, operational governance and the responsible treatment of vulnerable customers, in addi

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Ultimate Christmas Party experience launches at Harewood House

One of the most unique Christmas party experiences in the UK is coming to a brand-new location – the spectacular grounds of Harewood House. YurtBar has been dubbed the ultimate Christmas party destination, creating an immersive magical pop-up alpine village, adorned with ski racks, fur throws, crackling log fire, and 10-foot Christmas tree. The alpine village accommodates up to 345 guests for an après ski style party. Revellers can hire out different areas of the village, named after our fav

Founder who knew she had “lots to say” creates AI tool that helps others say it

Thistl is an AI social media assistant that helps new founders and business leaders build the personal brand that grows their business. A new AI-powered social media assistant launches on 1 October, addressing the common struggle of creating social content that sounds genuinely personal without spending hours on each post. Thistl, developed by marketing strategist Lucy Smith, uses speech-to-text technology to help founders create social content that sounds like them. The platform tackles a f

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale filmed at The Great Yorkshire Showground

Organisers of the Great Yorkshire Show can reveal that the Showground in Harrogate will feature in the highly anticipated third Downton Abbey movie. Hundreds of cast, crew and extras were based on the Showground where filming took place for some scenes in Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale. The film released globally with a cast that includes Hugh Bonneville (Robert Crawley) and Elizabeth McGovern (Cora Crawley). Actor Jim Carter who plays Mr Carson told ITV This Morning that he was born in H