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Mar 4, 2026Fashion and Lifestyle

Cheshire’s biggest summer celebration returning this July

The Brit Fest taking place this Summer from Thursday 2nd to Sunday 5th July 2026 at Ashley Hall Showground in Altrincham, promises it’s biggest and most spectacular event yet – a four-day celebration of live music, community, and British culture that continues to grow from strength to strength. Headlining the festival will be Happy Mondays on Friday, Holly Johnson on Saturday, and ABC on Sunday, joined by a stellar cast of British music icons including Wet Wet Wet, Eternal, Peter Hook & The Li

Mar 4, 2026Fashion and Lifestyle

Celebrate International Women’s Day at Bradford Industrial Museum

The contribution of women in industry will be celebrated this International Women’s Day at Bradford Industrial Museum. A free volunteer led event at Bradford Council’s Bradford Industrial Museum will take place on Sunday 8 March from 11am to 3pm. Join the museum’s Weaving Gallery volunteers with Bradford Guild of Weavers, Spinners, and Dyers and have a go at spinning or weaving or check out their handmade knitwear which will be on sale. There will be performances from the local Buttercross

Mar 2, 2026Business

Leading York architects transforming St Peter's School

Award-winning architects brown + company are playing a pivotal role in the transformation of St Peter’s School in York. St Peter’s, which was founded in AD627 and is one of the oldest schools in the UK, is switching from a three to a two-school model. This structural change requires a wide-ranging overhaul of the school campus in Clifton. brown + company, based in Blossom Street in York, are working closely with St Peter’s to ensure that the new-look campus meets the needs of the school.

Mar 2, 2026Business

Professional studio base as podcast room launches in Leeds

Podcast Room Leeds, a purpose-built podcast and video recording studio, has opened in Leeds city centre, providing a fully managed production environment for businesses and creators across Yorkshire and the wider North of England. The launch responds to a significant and sustained rise in demand for professionally produced audio and video content, as organisations of all sizes turn to podcasting and video as core channels within their marketing and communications strategies. The studio has bee

Mar 2, 2026Business

Leeds Business School launches Impact and Growth programme to empower women in business

The Business School at Leeds Beckett University has launched WECAN – Impact and Growth, a new leadership and development programme designed to empower women to create impact in their businesses, organisations and wider communities. Building on the success of a previous programme, this initiative helps develop leadership capability, confidence and emotional intelligence among women at all stages of their professional journey. The programme, hosted by the Centre for Entrepreneurship and Knowledg

Mar 2, 2026Business

York Garden Centre raises its fundraising target for Wetherby children’s hospice

With two months of the charity year still to go, a Bradford-based garden centre group with a site in York has smashed its fundraising target and extended its commitment to a local children’s hospice. In April 2025, the teams at Yorkshire Garden Centres’ sites in West and North Yorkshire pledged to raise £30,000 for Martin House Children’s Hospice, the Wetherby-based independent charity that cares for babies, children and young people with life-shortening conditions from West, North and East Yo

Mar 2, 2026Fashion and Lifestyle

Leeds Lit Fest 2026: 6th to 14th June

Leeds Lit Fest is back! Returning for its eighth year, the award-winning festival of words and thought will take place across a variety of Leeds’ creative spaces and aims to bring belonging and community to the city’s literary scene with writers, poets and performers from both near and far. Festival organisers are delighted by the support they have received over the last seven years and aim to make this year’s festival bigger than before, with famous names and a packed schedule with all things

Mar 2, 2026Fashion and Lifestyle

Chesney Hawkes - Still the One and Only

Yorkshire Businesswoman talks to 1990's pop sensation about his new album and his upcoming UK tour including Brudenell Social Club in Leeds on 12th March. Thirty-five years after the one and only became one of the most recognisable songs of a generation, Chesney Hawkes remains as energised as ever. On the brink of releasing his new album Living Arrows and preparing for his 2026 UK tour, he reflects on longevity, fatherhood, friendship and the enduring thrill of stepping onto a stage. “I feel

Feb 23, 2026Business

Leeds law firm strengthens team with 12 new appointments

Ward Hadaway has appointed 12 new legal specialists to its Leeds office, strengthening teams in response to sustained client demand across Yorkshire. The new starters include directors, solicitors, trainee solicitors and paralegals, adding capacity across teams that advise public sector bodies, housing providers, private individuals and mid-market businesses. The Leeds appointments form part of a wider intake of 44 new starters across the firm nationally, reflecting continued investment in its

Feb 23, 2026Business

Women of Courage podcast

Maureen Greeves is a deeply religious woman. Yet her faith was tested to the full when her husband Alan’s life was ended by an act of senseless violence as he walked to midnight mass on Christmas Eve. He suffered catastrophic injuries after being battered with a pickaxe handle. At the time the case attracted a great of attention as did the decision of Maureen soon after Alan died to publicly forgive the two young men who killed him. Maureen is one of five women whose stories are featured in

Feb 19, 2026Business

Indian food entrepreneur returns with new Ripon production kitchen

Award-winning entrepreneur Monalisa Fathima has announced the opening of a new, expanded production facility in Ripon for her latest venture, Monalisa’s Kitchen. The move to the new unit at Sycamore Business Park in Copt Hewick marks an exciting new chapter for Monalisa, whose journey into the World Foods category began during a period of profound personal challenge. Six years ago, while in the final months of completing a PhD in Education, Monalisa was diagnosed with congenital cataracts. D

Feb 19, 2026Fashion and Lifestyle

Scarborough singer songwriter returns to Yorkshire whisky distillery

A Yorkshire whisky distillery has announced the artist for its April Distillery Session. Rising Scarborough singer-songwriter and saxophonist, Em Louise, returns to the Pot Still Coffee Shop stage at Spirit of Yorkshire’s Distillery Session on 25th April following a sell-out debut last year. Spirit of Yorkshire’s marketing director Jenni Ashwood is delighted to welcome the young musician to the second of the 2026 programme of Distillery Sessions. She said: “Em’s influences range from notable

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