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Jan 31, 2025Fashion and Lifestyle

Ultimate 80s celebration returns to Millennium Square, Leeds

Leeds City Council and Opera North are thrilled to announce the return of the hugely popular 80s Classical, taking place on Saturday, July 26, 2025 on Millennium Square. Celebrating its sixth sensational season, the event welcomes iconic artists including Kim Wilde, Roland Gift (of Fine Young Cannibals), Go West, and Jaki Graham, promising an evening filled with nostalgia, incredible music, and unforgettable memories. The 80s Classical event brings together some of the most celebrated artist

Jan 31, 2025Business

North Yorkshire developer welcomes planned easing of mortgage rules

The news that mortgage rules could be eased in the quest for growth has been welcomed by Vivly Living, the award-winning Yorkshire residential property developer and builder. The Government has urged financial regulators to look at allowing banks and other lenders greater flexibility to allow “responsible risk-taking” from borrowers. The changes to lending rules would allow banks to issue more loans to buyers with smaller deposits. The move comes in response to demands from Rachel Reeves f

Jan 30, 2025Fashion and Lifestyle

New Year, new menu as Trinity Kitchen welcomes street food vendors

Trinity Kitchen is kicking off the New Year in style with a fresh line-up of street food vendors, blending beloved favourites with bold new concepts to start 2025 on a delicious note. Guests can explore a range of options including Big Mouth Gyoza, Sri Non Thai, 7 Star Flag, Little Red Food Truck and Yorkshire Cheese Grill, which will take over the iconic converted VW Camper Van, Citroen H van, horse trailer, shipping container, and J7 van from Monday, January 20th for the next nine weeks. T

Jan 30, 2025Health & Wellbeing

Scholarship for mental health nurse to address suicide in farming

A mental health nurse hopes to offer helpful insights into what more can be done to prevent suicides in British agriculture by embarking on an international study tour, sponsored by the Yorkshire Agricultural Society. Lucia Slack has been awarded a prestigious Nuffield Farming Scholarship to study ‘Addressing Suicide in Agriculture: Supporting and Preventing the Biggest Hidden Danger Today’. Since 1980, farming charity the Yorkshire Agricultural Society has sponsored Nuffield Farming Scholars

Jan 30, 2025Business

Decodifi targets £500,000 annual revenue as MD Charlie Bartle gains recognition at awards

Decodifi, a Headingley-based software company, is thrilled to announce that managing director Charlie Bartle has been named a finalist in the prestigious 2025 Yorkshire BusinessWoman Awards. Charlie has been recognised in the highly competitive Digital category, highlighting her exceptional contributions to the digital industry and the region's business community. Since stepping into the role of managing director, Charlie has led Decodifi on an ambitious growth journey, with the company target

Jan 27, 2025Fashion and Lifestyle

Tracy-Ann Oberman reprises her role as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice 1936

This February, Leeds Playhouse welcomes the critically acclaimed production The Merchant of Venice 1936 starring Tracy-Ann Oberman (EastEnders, Doctor Who, Friday Night Dinner) as the first British actress to play Shylock. A new date has just been added during Leeds Playhouse’s Quarry Theatre run from 18 – 22 Feb due to demand. Tracy-Ann Oberman said: “The message of my female Shylock – based on my Great Grandma, a widow in the East End standing up to Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fas

Jan 27, 2025Fashion and Lifestyle

Cafe Residence announces new opening in North Leeds

Leeds café and bar brand Residence has announced plans to expand with a new outlet in Moortown, North Leeds and a new day-to-night concept. This will be the third location for the popular eatery which already operates thriving cafés in Headingley and Cookridge. Residence Moortown aims to blend the comfort of a coffee shop with the sophistication of an evening cocktail bar. Customers can expect the same great tasting food and commitment to quality that Residence is loved for, including ethica

Jan 27, 2025Fashion and Lifestyle

Cloud Nine appoint Stephanie Mason as part of growth plans in Australia and New Zealand

CLOUD NINE is delighted to announce the appointment of Stephanie Mason in an advisory role, supporting ambitious growth plans for the brand in Australia and New Zealand in 2025. Over the last 15 years, CLOUD NINE has established itself as a leading hair electrical brand and is currently stocked in over 500 leading retailers as well as premium hair salons across the globe. CLOUD NINE has always been the best choice for healthy hair, and its new styling iron range is set to launch later this yea

Jan 24, 2025Fashion and Lifestyle

INDIE-ROCK LEGENDS SNOW PATROL ANNOUNCE HEADLINE SHOW FOR SCARBOROUGH

Indie-rock pioneers Snow Patrol will bring their signature anthemic sound to the Yorkshire coast this summer when they headline TK Maxx presents Scarborough Open Air Theatre. The Ivor Novello Award winners will headline the UK’s biggest open-air concert arena on Friday June 27. Tickets go on sale at 9am Friday January 24 from ticketmaster.co.uk and scarboroughopenairtheatre.com Northern Irish-Scottish rockers Snow Patrol – fronted by Gary Lightbody with longtime members Nathan Connolly and

Jan 24, 2025Health & Wellbeing

Change the way you clean your home in 2025

People are now more conscious of the products that make it into their home – in terms of what they put into their body, on their skin AND what they clean their home with. The approach to cleaning our homes and businesses has changed hugely over the past couple of years. The focus now is on what is best for our body, our wellbeing, and the environment. Less in now certainly more……. less additives, less chemicals, less packaging. Yorkshire Businesswoman member, Mo, founder of Yorkshire bas

Jan 24, 2025Business

What do Defra’s simpler recycling plans mean for businesses in Yorkshire?

The new Simpler Recycling rules affect any business with 10 or more full-time employees and arrangements to comply with them must be in place by 31 March 2025. Businesses that fit under this category must arrange separate collections of food waste, paper and cardboard (can be combined), and other dry recycling (glass, plastic, and metals, which can be combined). It means businesses can no longer throw any of these materials away with general waste. The rules apply to businesses regardless of h

Jan 21, 2025Fashion and Lifestyle

Yorkshire Sculpture Park's new exhibition set to open

Keepers of Time by Wakefield-based artist Tony Wade celebrates the majesty of trees, time beyond our lifespans, mindfulness and nature connectedness, inviting us to notice the beauty in our local environment. It presents a series of 10 intricate digital drawings of the oldest trees at YSP, created over the last year as part of Wade’s documentation of ancient and veteran trees for the Woodland Trust’s Ancient Tree Inventory. This inventory is a record of some of the most important trees in the

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