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An insurance expert is warning Yorkshire and Humber homeowners who own expensive jewellery that they risk losing thousands of pounds if they fall victim to burglars – as the pandemic pushes up the price of gold. Gerard Salvin, of Yorkshire-based high net worth insurance broker Lycetts, fears homeowners may face significant

* Transport Secretary to chair Northern Transport Acceleration Council after hosting a business roundtable * Series of meetings with political and business leaders to focus on driving forward the North’s economic recovery and building back better from the impacts of Covid-19 * Transport Secretary will also meet with Northern MPs to discuss

Aspiring young change makers across the North of England are being given the opportunity to develop their entrepreneurship to drive real change in their communities. The Young Change Makers Fellowship Programme has been launched by Virgin Money Foundation with the National Lottery Community Fund and Northern Soul to find change

GMB, the union for Spectrum for Arcadia workers, says disgraced peer Philip Green must fork out for redundancy payments as his retail empire collapses. Arcadia, which owns Topshop, Burtons and Dorothy Perkins, announced last night it had gone into administration, putting 13,000 jobs at risk. The company has tried

* 90% of Yorkshire mid-sized businesses say they will fully recover from COVID-19 within six months from the point a vaccine is made available * 80% of companies have revised their business plans as a result of the positive vaccine news An overwhelming number of Yorkshire businesses predict a rapid recovery once

The latest data from Rightmove shows new sellers joining the rush to beat the March stamp duty deadline has resulted in a slight dip in asking prices of 0.5%, or £1,505 on average, compared to last month, and that national sales agreed are up 50% on October last

Keys, phone, facemask; this is the new routine as we prepare to go out and about during the Covid-19 pandemic, but what you do with your used facemask has unwanted consequences. It’s impossible to miss the sheer volume of facemasks that have been carelessly littered around our towns and