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Feb 20, 2025Business

Urban Splash appoints new development manager

Award-winning regeneration company Urban Splash has announced the appointment of Sian Stanhope as development manager, further strengthening its commitment to creating new homes and workspaces in Sheffield. Sian will play a key role in two major Urban Splash projects in the city. The first includes the final phases of the iconic Park Hill redevelopment. Urban Splash has transformed the Grade II-listed brutalist landmark into a vibrant community with hundreds of new homes, amenities, and thousa

Feb 20, 2025Fashion and Lifestyle

Tykes Restaurant marks 20th anniversary with interior redesign & new menu

Tykes Restaurant at Sandburn Hall, near York, has been fully redesigned and refurbished to mark the 20th anniversary of this ‘popular and much loved’ restaurant. Tykes is part of the 1,000 acre Sandburn Hall estate seven miles from York that includes the 40-bedroom Sandburn Hall Hotel, Sandburn Hall Golf Club and Grand Function Room that comprise one of Yorkshire’s leading hospitality, golf, wedding, events and business venues. “Since we opened Tykes in 2005, it has established itself as one

Feb 20, 2025Business

Employment Bill will wreak havoc on our already fragile economy, say small firms

Small firms are tightening their belts on jobs, with potential changes that will expand the grounds for unfair dismissal and higher sick pay costs at the top of their list of worries, research from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) shows. New data shows that in the last quarter of 2024, 33 per cent of small employers said they expect to reduce staff, up from 17 per cent in the previous quarter. Fewer businesses are also looking to hire – with only 10 per cent of small employers planni

Feb 19, 2025Fashion and Lifestyle

Afternoon Tea with Lexus + Harvey Nichols

Join us for a delicious afternoon tea with Lexus and Harvey Nichols on Tuesday 18th March as we celebrate Mother's Day in the Fourth Floor Brasserie We have two sittings, 12 noon or 2.30pm. There will be a fabulous selection of sandwiches and cakes as well as scones and clotted cream. We will also be joined by Charlotte Tilbury and MFK with treats and gift sets. Why not bring along your Mum, or come yourself for great networking opportunities. Places are limited, so be sure to book early a

Feb 19, 2025Fashion and Lifestyle

A brass concert and portraits exhibition with comedian Bill Bailey

BBC Arts’ Extraordinary Portraits with Bill Bailey and a BBC Radio 2 Loves Brass concert are just some of the latest creative and cultural highlights to come from the BBC to mark Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture. With the eagerly anticipated year of UK City of Culture now in fully swing, the new BBC content celebrates the vibrant culture, rich heritage, and dynamic creativity of Bradford. The paintings and sculpture from the new series of Extraordinary Portraits with Bill Bailey will be exhi

Feb 18, 2025Fashion and Lifestyle

Northern Ballet brings literary heroine, Jane Eyre, back to the region

Audiences can join one of literature’s most iconic heroines on a journey of resilience, romance and redemption as Northern Ballet’s critically acclaimed Jane Eyre heads to two Yorkshire theatres this spring as part of a new national tour. The production opens at Leeds Grand Theatre from 14 – 22 March and at Sheffield Lyceum Theatre from 22 – 26 April. Based on the novel by Charlotte Brontë, Northern Ballet will bring this beautiful love story to life with heart-stirring choreography and live m

Feb 18, 2025Fashion and Lifestyle

The 3 Acres reveals first look at new bedroom schemes following fire

The 3 Acres has shared a first look at three luxury interior schemes for its new bedrooms ahead of reopening in May. Owner Tom Truelove and wife, Lauren, have shared the schemes that will feature in three of the eight bedrooms being refurbished following severe fire damage on Boxing Day 2023. Lauren explained: “The refurbishment of The 3 Acres following the fire has provided us with the opportunity to create beautiful new schemes in eight of our sixteen bedrooms that truly reflect the ambian

Feb 18, 2025Business

East Yorkshire poultry business creates new role in the operations team

A Middleton on the Wolds based family poultry business has created a new role in its operations team to support its growing business. Stania Peris has joined the team at Soanes Poultry as an Operations Quality Management and ETP (Effluent Treatment Plant) Technician. Stania has relocated from Manchester to take up the new role, where she will assume responsibility for production specifications, label control, ETP testing and staff induction management. Specifically, she will ensure that our

Feb 17, 2025Business

Meet the Bradford district’s first female gritter driver

Meet Nikki Francis the Bradford district’s first female gritter driver. At 55 Nikki who lives in Queensbury, an area of Bradford famous for its harsh winters, will become the district’s first female gritter driver. When not gritting she’s is a stock control officer for the council’s Highways and Street Lighting team and has worked for Bradford Council since 2003. Nikki has recently passed her Urban Driving apprenticeship and has obtained her Category C (heavy goods) licence, and following th

Feb 17, 2025EditorsBlog

Editor tries revolutionary skin treatment

None of us are getting any younger and if you’re like me, I yearn for the days of my youth when I didn’t have to worry about wrinkle lines, dark spots or a saggy jaw. That said, I am grateful to have got to the age that I have and know that I have earned every line and wrinkle. When I was growing up, there wasn’t the huge range of products to choose from that there are now, I think we can all be baffled at what is on the market. My mother believed nothing beat soap and water and as my skin was

Feb 14, 2025Fashion and Lifestyle

Hair straightener trade-in scheme incentivises consumers to recycle old gadgets

An Otley-based hair products business is helping consumers to earn money whilst reducing electronic waste, thanks to a hair straightener recycling scheme. Luxury Hair Products is offering environmentally conscious consumers the chance to earn cash by simply trading in their old GHD or Cloud 9 straighteners, working or not. Luxury Hair Products technicians will refurbish and recycle the old straighteners, extending the shelf life of the gadget. If the straighteners are beyond repair, they can b

Feb 14, 2025Fashion and Lifestyle

Natural wool mattresses that support local farming

Yorkshire-based wool bedding brand, Floks, has partnered with fellow luxury Yorkshire bedmaker, Harrison Spinks, to create a premium range of responsibly-sourced wool mattresses. United by a shared passion for ethical manufacturing, quality, and support for British farming, the collaboration combines Floks’ expertise in sustainable wool bedding with Harrison Spinks’ heritage in crafting mattresses from natural materials. This collaboration represents a new benchmark in wool-rich sleep solution

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