Health & Wellbeing

In this week’s podcast, food writer, author and award-winning entrepreneur Freda Shafi talks about her work raising awareness of menopause, and recording the experiences in the Pakistani community in West Yorkshire. Freda shares her own menopause story, and she and Dr Louise discuss key barriers women face accessing care,

A Leeds mum with stage 4 EGFR positive lung cancer will join more than 40 people – including eight with the same prognosis – up Scafell Pike, England’s highest peak, on 23 September to increase awareness of non-smoking lung cancer and raise funds to support patients affected by the disease. 49-year-old

A new swimming pool part-owned by Olympic legend Becky Adlington OBE is set to make a splash at Xscape Yorkshire. Around 2,000 new swimming lesson slots will be created at the state-of-the-art swim! centre with around 70% already snapped up by local families. A seven-figure sum is being invested

From ‘A day in the life of the Major Trauma Unit’ to ‘A journey through liver transplantation’ a new four-part podcast series, Vital Signs, captures the daily lives of the incredible people and services in at Leeds Teaching Hospitals. Following on the back of the BBC television series Saving Lives

Leeds laser expert Saffron Biggs began her career in business and marketing with a goal of working within the retail space, but it was whilst studying at university in her early twenties that she booked her first laser hair removal treatment, being dark haired herself, and quickly shifted her corporate

Bethan Pritchard, who runs the Bethan Sian beauty salon in the heart of Malton, has embarked on the challenge of her life for charity. Thirty-year-old Bethan has successfully run seven marathons in seven months across the UK this to raise money for two charities very close to her heart. Her

After gaining an impressive catalogue of experience within the beauty industry, Claire Raby – founder of Amica Aesthetics located in Roundhay, Leeds – has become one of the UK’s leading authorities in aesthetic treatments and training, and for very good reason. Having worked on an eclectic clientele of ages, skin-types, textures