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Law firm announces promotion for leading lawyer
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Law firm announces promotion for leading lawyer

Yorkshire law firm Lupton Fawcett has strengthened its Regulatory and Corporate Defence (RCD) team with the promotion of one of the region’s leading criminal regulatory lawyers Meghan Waldron. The firm is delighted to announce her promotion to Senior Associate. Specialising in defending businesses and individuals facing investigation or prosecution for criminal and regulatory allegations, the RCD team works across its York, Leeds and Sheffield offices, winning cases for their clients throughou

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Ripley care worker shares why it’s never too late to change careers
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Ripley care worker shares why it’s never too late to change careers

Exemplar Health Care is shining a spotlight on Angie Smith from Codnor, Ripley who’s made a significant career change later in her life, encouraging others to consider a role in care. At the age of 56, Angie decided that she was ready for a career change. Having worked at Tesco for over 30 years and volunteering with local charities, she decided to work in social care to make a difference. After applying for a role at Yarningdale care home in Codnor, Ripley, she quickly realised that a lot of h

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Care proceedings specialist appointed director at Huddersfield law firm
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Care proceedings specialist appointed director at Huddersfield law firm

Huddersfield law firm Wilkinson Woodward Norcliffe and Co has announced the promotion of Children and Care Proceedings specialist Shelley McLachlan to director. Shelley joined the firm in 2014 after achieving a First-Class Law Degree followed by a Master’s in Law and Practice. In 2016 Ms McLachlan qualified as a solicitor and in 2019 she was appointed as a member of the Law Society’s Children Panel, whose members are qualified to represent children within private family law and care proceedings

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Sign up to our private membership and receive promotion and offers for your business
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Sign up to our private membership and receive promotion and offers for your business

Following the successful launch of Yorkshire Businesswoman magazine last year, we are now launching our special members club. You will receive invitations to exclusive events where you will have the opportunity to network and socialise with likeminded businesswomen and receive special offers, discounts and support from other members and local businesses. Over the Summer, Yorkshire Businesswoman is planning to hold a number of face-to-face events (Covid permitting) with our partners, the beauti

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Self-taught Bradford artist announced as Leeds Playhouse's new resident designer
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Self-taught Bradford artist announced as Leeds Playhouse's new resident designer

Set designer and miniature model-maker Warda Abbasi has been announced as the new resident designer at Leeds Playhouse. This is a year-long role in partnership with Leeds-based theatre company tutti frutti, supported by the Weston Jerwood Creative Bursaries programme. After completing a degree in mathematics, Bradford-based Warda worked in the box office at Square Chapel in Halifax, which gave her the opportunity to watch lots of theatre while honing her model-making skills in her spare time. S

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Magpie appoints new MD and creative and behavioural science change makers
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Magpie appoints new MD and creative and behavioural science change makers

Yorkshire’s award winning creative behaviour change agency, Magpie, has appointed Kim Somerville as managing director to take forward an ambitious plan to make more positive social change and be the leading champions of unheard voices. She is joined by new creative director, Rose Mountague formally creative director at Epiphany (now Jaywing) and Dr Gráinne Dickerson, an experienced health psychologist as the new behavioural insights consultant. This new senior team is tasked with inspiring more

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Floral gifting blooms in Leeds
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Floral gifting blooms in Leeds

In the era of social distancing and rolling lockdowns, people are finding new ways to connect with each other, with personalised floral gifts on the rise. New research from online florist, Flowercard, shows that people in Leeds are connecting more than anywhere else in the UK, with an exponential rise in residents sending floral gifts. Flowercard has seen sales bloom across the UK, with a 63% rise in ‘no occasion’ and ‘any occasion’ gifting between 2019 and 2020. Within that, Leeds had a 297%

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Unknown Yorkshire female sport stars celebrated in unique illustrated card game
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Unknown Yorkshire female sport stars celebrated in unique illustrated card game

Stephanie Park and Dorothy Hyman may not be household names to many, but their historic sporting achievements have seen them immortalised in a newly illustrated children’s card game, available to download for free. The creative resource is part of the Hidden Histories Illustrated project that involves Leeds based, social enterprise Sporting Heritage working in partnership with freelance illustrator and education consultant, Jessica Hartshorn on the Arts Council England funded initiative to cele

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New five year plan for Leeds Kirkgate Market
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New five year plan for Leeds Kirkgate Market

Senior councillors in Leeds will be asked to back a five-year strategy to future-proof the much loved Leeds Kirkgate Market at an executive board meeting on Wednesday 17 March. The proposed Leeds Kirkgate Market Strategy 2021-2026 sets out how the market will manage the impact and recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic and adapt to the ever changing retail climate in order to remain a sustainable and attractive retail destination. If approved, the council will collaborate with market traders, the

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Experienced head of people bolsters Force24’s leadership team
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Experienced head of people bolsters Force24’s leadership team

Force24 has appointed senior HR professional Helen Charlesworth to prioritise employee engagement, company culture and in-house processes, ensuring the business is an “employer of choice” for emerging tech talent. Excited by organisational challenges and opportunities that marketing automation platform Force24 presents, Helen can draw on her experience as the former head of HR for sustainable modular home start up, ilke Homes. Despite being the enterprise’s first ever employee in 2017, she was

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Northern Power Women celebrate their annual awards ceremony
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Northern Power Women celebrate their annual awards ceremony

On Monday 8 March inspirational women and men from all over the North came together virtually to celebrate this year’s Northern Power Women Awards. The Awards celebrate the incredible achievements of women and men working together to accelerate gender diversity across the North and on a global scale and serve to re-connect us all after a year of lockdown, social distancing, and working from home. This year’s awards have witnessed a record-breaking 1480 nominations, and had over 900 people in a

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Foundations of opportunity: how construction can embrace the female workforce
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Foundations of opportunity: how construction can embrace the female workforce

Construction has a reputation as an industry which has done little to address the shortfall in its female workforce, but there is evidence of positive change and huge potential for further progress in the coming years. Katherine Naisbitt, Commercial Director at C80 Group, discusses the challenges and the opportunities for women in construction. Having worked in various other sectors, from manufacturing and waste management to recruitment and consulting, I somewhat stumbled into construction by

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