Food&Drink Speight’s Gin launch Shibden Valley tipple inspired by Anne Lister The team behind Halifax’s award-winning gin brand, Speight’s Gin, has launched a Shibden Valley gin, featuring special edition Anne Lister-adorned birthday celebration bottles. The Speight’s family has worked closely with Shibden Hall to produce the gin, which will be available to purchase in-person at Shibden Hall and By The Editor • 2 min read
Charity Tour de Ramsdens 3, cycling in aid of Yorkshire Children’s Centre Earlier this month our team of cyclists took on the 100 mile route across 14 Ramsdens Solicitors offices, starting at York at 6 am and finishing at the Ramsden Street office in Huddersfield at 7:30 pm, in aid of the Yorkshire Children’s Centre. Yorkshire Children’s Centre, which By The Editor • 1 min read
Arts&Culture The Yorkshire Vet’s Julian Norton announces Whitby Pavilion show Julian Norton, star of Channel 5’s The Yorkshire Vet has announced a date at Whitby Pavilion as part of his new tour next year. In ‘An Evening With Julian Norton’ on Friday 4 March 2022, Julian will share amusing anecdotes from his veterinary work in North Yorkshire. These true By The Editor • 1 min read
Business How to protect your site during an internet outage HSBC Bank, British Airways and the Playstation Network are just a number of websites hit by a global outage yesterday. The disprution is the second widespread outage in the past two months after high-profile sites including Amazon and eBay crashed at the beginning of June. These global outages are becoming By The Editor • 2 min read
Food&Drink Up North Pizza Company agrees ten year lease CRT Property Investments Ltd, the commercial property business based in Barnsley and wholly owned subsidiary of the Coalfields Regeneration Trust, has secured Up North Pizza Company as a long-term tenant after it signed a ten-year lease agreement for Unit 1 at Westoe Crown Village. Working alongside Youngs RPS as the By The Editor • 1 min read
Legal Matters Lupton Fawcett lawyer officiates at double consecration Lupton Fawcett lawyer Louise Connacher officiated at the consecration of two new bishops by the Archbishop of York, the Most Reverend Stephen Cottrell, at York Minster. The Venerable Julie Conalty, previously Archdeacon of Tonbridge, was consecrated as the Bishop of Birkenhead and the Reverend Canon Sam Corley, previously Rector of By The Editor • 2 min read
Business Students win PR prize following successful virtual pitch Celebrations are in order for two final year Public Relations students from Leeds Beckett University who have been awarded the Grayling Prize 2021. Elettra Pomilio and Jack Snell scooped the top prize after pitching an integrated PR plan in response to a UK-wide brief for an outdoor toy brand as By The Editor • 3 min read
Business IoD North Yorkshire welcomes end of devolution uncertainty The Institute of Directors’ North Yorkshire branch has welcomed the statement by Local Government Secretary Robert Jenrick that North Yorkshire's county and district councils are to be replaced with a single unitary authority for the entire county (excluding City of York). The IoD said the move ended the By The Editor • 1 min read
Arts&Culture Leeds Heritage Theatres partners with LeedsBID for festival of ideas Leeds Heritage Theatres is delighted to be partnering with LeedsBID at this year’s Leeds International Festival of Ideas as City Varieties Music Hall is chosen as one of the host venues that will see renowned names, experts in their field, and some of the world’s most exciting thinkers By The Editor • 2 min read
Arts&Culture Whitby Pavilion’s Theatre re-opens for the Summer season After the final lifting of restrictions across England on Monday, the Whitby Amateur Dramatics Society are looking forward to their grand return to Whitby Pavilion Theatre. After an 18 month limbo for theatre across the country, the local performers from Whitby Amateur Dramatics Society or WADS as they are more By The Editor • 1 min read
Business Leeds based digital agency celebrates series of client wins Leeds based digital marketing agency, Search Laboratory, is celebrating a series of client wins in the first half of 2021. The agency, which recently opened an office in Austin, TX, has won over a dozen new accounts since January, with notable wins including Unite Students and Bloch. Over half of By The Editor • 1 min read
Business Company insolvencies surge as businesses urged to take action early Insolvency figures recently released for June 2021 by the Government’s Insolvency Service show a 63% increase in corporate insolvencies compared to the same month last year (741 in June 2020). However insolvencies are 18% lower than the number registered two years previously (pre-pandemic; 1,466 in June 2019). Corporate By The Editor • 3 min read
