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May 21, 2025Fashion and Lifestyle

Yorkshire Sculpture Park's children's wartime art collection

Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) is delighted to announce that children’s artwork from its own National Arts Education Archive (NAEA) has been inscribed on the UNESCO Memory of the World Register. Marking a major achievement for Yorkshire and the UK, the decision places YSP’s Franz Cižek Collection alongside globally significant documents such as Beethoven’s 9th Symphony and the Diary of Anne Frank. For more than seven years, YSP has played a leading role in a pan-European initiative to nomina

May 21, 2025Health & Wellbeing

National Conference launches in Leeds to tackle screen addiction among young people

A pioneering new event for education professionals working with young people and teenagers is to be held in Leeds. The Be Device Wise Conference, spearheaded by renowned psychologist and psychotherapist Dr Charlotte Armitage will take place in June to raise awareness of the growing impact of excessive device use among children and adolescents. This one-of-a-kind conference, taking place on Thursday 5th June in Leeds brings together educators, youth workers, and policymakers to explore the late

May 20, 2025Business

Female leaders unite at Girl Tech Leeds

Girl Tech has made its return to Leeds, marking its highly anticipated comeback as the first in a series of digital insights days designed for young women - set to unfold in five major cities across the country this year. The event brings together representatives from leading businesses in tech and innovation, along with dozens of female role models, to connect with young women across the UK. The initiative aims to inspire and inform its young participants about opportunities in the sector and

May 20, 2025Business

The Bigger Boat named official marketing partner ClimbUK

Integrated marketing agency The Bigger Boat has been appointed as the official marketing partner for Climb25, the Leeds-based event connecting scaling UK companies with international investors, innovators, and collaborators, taking place on 2-3 July 2025. The two-day event – now in its third year – is expected to attract more than 4,000 attendees from various sectors. The Bigger Boat will lead the delivery of multi-channel marketing and communications, including digital campaigns, social media

May 20, 2025Business

Why Castleford and surrounding areas are becoming a property hotspot

Hunters Castleford Owners Keira and Andy Wiles share their perspective on the area’s housing surge. Once known as a quiet corner of West Yorkshire, the Five Towns including Castleford, Pontefract, Wakefield, Featherstone, and Knottingley are now making headlines as one of the most in-demand areas for homebuyers and renters alike. According to Keira and Andy Wiles, owners of Hunters Castleford, this growth is no accident, it’s the result of a perfect blend of lifestyle, location, and a growing se

May 19, 2025Business

Caddick strengthens leadership team with promotion

Multi-sector property specialist Caddick has promoted Hollie Shackleton to Associate Director. Bringing with her nearly 20 years of industry expertise gained from her work at Oakgate Group and Caddick’s developments arm, Hollie has played a pivotal role in securing commercial and residential opportunities across Yorkshire. In her new role, Hollie will bring her extensive experience in asset and property management to the Caddick board, ensuring that its developments uphold high standards of su

May 19, 2025Fashion and Lifestyle

Northern Ballet's choreographic platform returns with Sketches

**Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre, Leeds 3 & 4 June 2025 Following sell-out performances in 2024, Northern Ballet’s choreographic platform, Sketches, is returning to Leeds with a compelling programme that weaves together new works and a classic piece of ballet repertoire. Devised by artistic director Federico Bonelli, Sketches offers emerging choreographers a platform to workshop, create, and present new and innovative works. This year’s programme includes pieces from Northern Ballet arti

May 19, 2025Business

Iconic Holmfirth café business goes up for sale

A unique café and events business in Meltham, near Holmfirth, has been put up for sale with a guide price of £175,000 with commercial property estate agent Ernest Wilson, which is part of Eddisons. Launched in 2020, Lu’s Place, on the edge of Meltham and adjacent to open countryside and woodland, has built a reputation among walkers and horse riders, as well as staff based at the busy, nearby Meltham Mills business park, for its home cooked food and locally sourced ingredients. The 70-cover

May 19, 2025Business

Train services between Bradford and London more than triple thanks to Government funding

Passengers in Bradford are now benefiting from improved, increased rail journeys thanks to a multi-million-pound Government boost. Nineteenth if May saw the opening of a brand-new platform at Forster Square Station, which is already facilitating five additional services a day between Bradford and London. The new platform and improved station infrastructure will ease congestion and increase access into the city for passengers, commuters and tourists. Minister for Local Transport, Simon Ligh

May 19, 2025Fashion and Lifestyle

City's tiny Saxon treasure has a big story to tell

A beautiful ancient Saxon pendant buried for more than 1,200 years in a Leeds field is giving experts a fascinating glimpse into life in early medieval Yorkshire. Believed to date from the eighth century, the gilded pectoral cross may have once been a badge of office for an important church leader or official and was unearthed last year by a metal detectorist. With one arm broken, and the central stone now missing, the cross is nevertheless a stunning example of metalwork, made from solid si

May 19, 2025Fashion and Lifestyle

Celebrity guests unveiled for Great Yorkshire Show

Celebrities from the farming world have been unveiled for the Ariat GYS Stage at the 166th Great Yorkshire Show. TV presenters Helen Skelton and Matt Baker MBE, Rob and Dave Nicholson, of Cannon Hall Farm (which hosts Channel 5’s Springtime on the Farm series), and popular Peter Wright of Channel 5’s The Yorkshire Vet will appear on the Ariat GYS Stage in a series of chat shows hosted by TV presenter Christine Talbot. For the first time, the Fashion Show will also be held on the Ariat GYS St

May 19, 2025Fashion and Lifestyle

International exhibition loops, opens at Sunny Bank Mills in Leeds

Loops is a collaborative exhibition between Netherlands based textile artists Gea van Eck, Hanneke van Broekhoven and Monika Loster, and Yorkshire based artists Andi Walker, Hannah Robson and Jane Claire Wilson at the Sunny Bank Mills Art Gallery in Farsley, between Leeds and Bradford. A large-scale collaborative artwork Loops centres around the theme of cycles, circles and continuums and aims to showcase the artists’ exploration and embracing of the inherent tensions found whilst collaboratin

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