Fashion 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 By The Editor • 2 min read
Business 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 By The Editor • 2 min read
Business 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 By The Editor • 1 min read
Business 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 By The Editor • 2 min read
Business 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 By The Editor • 2 min read
Best selling author of Bridget Jones Diaries, Helen Fielding (left) Fashion 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. By The Editor • 2 min read
Fashion 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 By The Editor • 3 min read
Business 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 By The Editor • 1 min read
Business 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 By The Editor • 2 min read
Business 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 By The Editor • 2 min read
Fashion 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 By The Editor • 1 min read
Business Leeds marketing agency strengthens team after securing major public sector brief Leeds-based digital marketing specialists, The Marketing Optimist has kicked off 2026 on a high after appointing a key new team member and seeing steady growth predicted for the remainder of the year, following successfully securing a trio of big client wins at the start of Q1 – including a large, revived By The Editor • 2 min read
