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Annapurna Indian Dance to perform at this year’s Huddersfield Literature Festival
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Annapurna Indian Dance to perform at this year’s Huddersfield Literature Festival

Halifax based Annapurna Indian Dance will be performing Indian Tales of Love and Wisdom, a rich cultural evening of Indian dance, music and stories at this year’s Huddersfield Literature Festival. The event, which will be taking place at Huddersfield’s Lawrence Batley Theatre on Thursday 31st March 2022, will see storytellers Indrani Datta and Sarvani Yadavalli explore nature, love and universality through the works of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore and Indian classical mythology. Based in

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Big Ideas by the Sea Festival returns for 2022
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Big Ideas by the Sea Festival returns for 2022

The ideas festival, Big Ideas by the Sea, returns to Scarborough for a ten day extravaganza of culture, music, discussion and activism from 20 May - 3 June 2022. Following its triumphant debut festival in 2021, which saw over a thousand people attend, festival Directors Kane Cunningham and John Oxley have announced an even bigger and better exciting festival programme for the 2022, building on last year’s success. This year’s festival will see a variety of events, concerts, workshops and activ

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Housebuilder advocates equality on International Women’s Day
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Housebuilder advocates equality on International Women’s Day

Jackie Priestley, assistant site manager at Harron Homes’ Highfield Manor development in Fixby, Yorkshire – which won Harron development of the year 2022, can attest to the progress made in the construction industry mindset over the past few decades. Jackie got her start in the industry as an apprentice plasterer over 20 years ago, and after 10 years of plastering, and a stint teaching she moved into site management and joined Harron in 2021. “College was the toughest time for me. I was the on

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Message from female entrepreneurs around breaking the bias this International Women’s Day
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Message from female entrepreneurs around breaking the bias this International Women’s Day

This week, as part of International Women’s Day, six online female entrepreneurs from varying backgrounds across the UK are uniting to start conversations they feel are important to bring to the table, as part of their efforts to #breakthebias on diverse subject areas which affect the quality of women’s lives and female empowerment. The business owners, who met through their work to spread their mission messages, brought together by Yorkshire-based PR agency Chocolate PR, are all hugely passion

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Female innovators from Yorkshire and the Humber win prestigious national award
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Female innovators from Yorkshire and the Humber win prestigious national award

Today, in celebration of International Women’s Day (Tuesday 8 March), three trailblazing female entrepreneurs from Yorkshire and the Humber have been recognised by Innovate UK’s Women in Innovation Awards for their game-changing innovations which are tackling some of society’s biggest challenges. Jennifer Turner, Ali Gordon (pictured) and Saile Villegas from Yorkshire and the Humber are amongst 38 pioneering women across the UK who will be awarded a cash injection of £50,000 each, as well as be

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Firm strengthens team with two appointments and a promotion
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Firm strengthens team with two appointments and a promotion

Finance recruitment consultancy Headstar has made two appointments and a promotion to its Leeds-based team following record demand for its services. Sharon Phillips has been appointed to head up the company’s transactional finance division, which is experiencing surging demand as employers look to strengthen their finance functions through the hiring of credit controllers and payroll managers in particular. With a successful track record in recruitment spanning 30 years within blue chip organi

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South Yorkshire businesswomen invited to #BreakTheBias in tech innovation event
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South Yorkshire businesswomen invited to #BreakTheBias in tech innovation event

Businesswomen based in South Yorkshire are invited to an event to celebrate the success of women tech entrepreneurs and ask how others can be supported to set up innovative digital companies. The ‘Celebrating Women in Tech’ event is inspired by this year’s International Women’s Day theme #BreaktheBias and will be held at Sheffield Hallam University on Friday March 11th. Research shows the tech sector trails others in terms of diversity with just four percent of the fastest growing tech start-u

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Female homelessness highlighted ahead of International Women’s Day
|Health & Wellbeing

Female homelessness highlighted ahead of International Women’s Day

Simon on the Streets, a West-Yorkshire homelessness charity has changed its name to Simone on the Streets to raise awareness of female rough sleepers ahead of International Women’s Day. International Women’s Day is a global day held on 8th March each year and the theme for 2022’s campaign is #BreakTheBias. Simon on the Streets advises that there is a misconception that homelessness is a male-orientated problem, and the day provides an opportunity to share how women are affected and supported.

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RFS strengthens team with new marketing manager
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RFS strengthens team with new marketing manager

Ripon Farm Services (RFS), one of the leading agricultural machinery suppliers in the UK, has appointed Sophie Allanby as Marketing Manager. Sophie joins RFS at an exciting stage in the company’s development. Sophie grew up on an arable farm just outside Malton and was actively involved with her local young farmers’ club. She has a first class honours Business degree from York St John’s University and has been in the marketing world for the past ten years in varying roles, including at the Ca

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Women's safety bus pilot scheme launches in Leeds city centre
|Health & Wellbeing

Women's safety bus pilot scheme launches in Leeds city centre

A non-judgemental safety bus where women can seek refuge, support and advice on an evening will launch this weekend in Leeds city centre. The Women’s Night Safe Space pilot, a joint initiative between Women’s Lives Leeds and Safer Leeds, will be piloted in Dortmund Square over the next three weekends and will be a place where women can come if they feel concerned, unsafe, unwell or vulnerable. The bus will offer support facilities including mobile phone charging; water, refreshments, and warm

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House of Koko head to Oakwood
|Yorkshire-Kitchen

House of Koko head to Oakwood

Renowned Chapel Allerton brunch spot all set to open second venue Beloved brunch venue House of Koko recently revealed exciting new plans - to open a second House of Koko venue in Roundhay’s Oakwood. Opening on March 4th, House of Koko Oakwood will take over the venue which was Hessian, whilst maintaining its Chapel Allerton branch. House of Koko will continue to deliver on the brand’s infamously tasty and all-encompassing brunch offering. Hessian’s staff will remain, keeping local knowledge

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Leeds breast imaging service first in UK to use Densitas intelliMammo artificial intelligence in mammograms
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Leeds breast imaging service first in UK to use Densitas intelliMammo artificial intelligence in mammograms

The breast imaging service at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is the first in the UK to introduce a new artificial intelligence (AI) technology which evaluates the technical quality of mammograms. The Canadian software company Densitas has worked with the team to customise the software to meet the needs of the department and the high image quality standards required by the NHS Breast Screening Programme. The technology will be implemented in both screening and symptomatic breast services to

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