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Tea time treat but for one month only!
|Yorkshire-Kitchen

Tea time treat but for one month only!

Award-winning café and brownies shop, Love Brownies, on Main Street is offering a limited-edition Billionaire’s Brownie from now until the end of September. The decadent treat – which is the perfect antidote to Autumn blues – boasts an award-winning salted caramel brownie base, topped with a crisp caramel layer and a gooey caramel topping. Exclusively available in-store only, the slices cost £3.50 and are perfectly paired with a steaming coffee or tea.

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Beauty retailer Space NK joins line-up at Trinity Leeds
|Fashion and Lifestyle

Beauty retailer Space NK joins line-up at Trinity Leeds

Premium beauty retailer Space NK will relocate from its current Leeds location in the Victoria Quarter to Trinity Leeds – the city’s leading retail and leisure destination. The new Space NK store will be located opposite Pandora on the lower ground floor, with nearly double the size of the brand’s previous Leeds store, at 1,700sq ft. The store is set to launch on September 10th, with all current beauty advisors moving over to the Trinity Leeds location. The Trinity Leeds store will stock top-

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Yorkshire cards and gifts retailer invests in new technology
|Entrepreneurs

Yorkshire cards and gifts retailer invests in new technology

Love Laya, a Yorkshire-based card and gift retailer, has invested a six-figure sum in new printing technology to allow them to meet the demand for personalised products. The company has seen sales for personalised cards grow 300% over the last year. The new equipment will allow the personalisation of a wide range of products from mugs and pet bowls to cards, bar mats and Christmas sacks. Commenting on the launch, Stacey Dennis, founder said: “People have embraced the ability to personalise car

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Insurance Institute of Leeds elects youngest-ever president
|Business

Insurance Institute of Leeds elects youngest-ever president

Holly Copsey, broking manager at leading global professional services firm Aon plc, has been appointed president of the Insurance Institute of Leeds (IIL). At 27 years old, Holly will be the youngest-ever president of IIL since it was founded in 1888 at the Queens Hotel in Leeds. Affiliated with the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII), IIL was established to champion education and professionalism in the industry and is one of the country’s oldest professional institutes. Currently IIL’s deputy

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Mark Hearld, Raucous Invention: The Joy of Making
|Fashion and Lifestyle

Mark Hearld, Raucous Invention: The Joy of Making

Raucous Invention: The Joy of Making will be an ambitious, vibrant, and creative journey where Hearld explores connections through collaboration and risk taking to create bold and challenging works. With several special collaborations planned, it will be a celebration of the joy and inspiration that comes from working with like-minded makers and organisations. Working from his studio in York, across a range of media and using the natural world as inspiration, Hearld is creating a brand new body

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Castleford care home worker wins regional care award
|Health & Wellbeing

Castleford care home worker wins regional care award

A dedicated Castleford care home employee has made it through to the national final of the Great British Care Awards. Bev Blythe from Exemplar Health Care’s Fairburn Mews care home in Castleford won ‘The Care Home Activity Organiser’ award at the Yorkshire and Humber regional finals. Bev was recognised for her outstanding dedication and work ethic, especially during the pandemic. Over the past year Bev has been particularly creative in planning activities for the residents at Fairburn Mews due

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Free webinars for Yorkshire businesswomen and entrepreneurs
|Business

Free webinars for Yorkshire businesswomen and entrepreneurs

Small business lender iwoca has curated the first of their series of free webinar events, designed specifically for Yorkshire based female business owners, entrepreneurs, and aspiring entrepreneurs. Watch it here: https://www.iwoca.co.uk/news/yorkshire-female-entrepreneur-support/ Photo by Vale Simantob: https://valesimantob.com/ iwoca (https://www.iwoca.co.uk/) set up this support initiative as government data showed there’d been little progress in increasing the number of female-led business

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Be one of the first to get Punked in their 1k meal giveaway
|Yorkshire-Kitchen

Be one of the first to get Punked in their 1k meal giveaway

Pizza Punks pride themselves on creating mouth-watering food, inventing unusual cocktail recipes and leaving a lasting impression on their customers. Already located in three cities across the UK – Glasgow, Belfast and Newcastle, the team has picked Leeds to be their next port of call, with a brand-new restaurant opening on Bond Street in the city centre on Saturday 11th September. They will be launching with a bang, offering the first 1000 people to register here on their website a free pizza o

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Mumbler celebrates its tenth birthday
|Entrepreneurs

Mumbler celebrates its tenth birthday

Parenting website Mumbler – launched by Harrogate mum Sally Haslewood from her kitchen table – has celebrated its tenth birthday with a party. Initially started as a Facebook group for new mums in 2011, Mumbler now has 19 franchises in locations all over England and is looking to expand its reach further. During 2020, more than 2.4 million people visited Mumbler’s combined websites and together the Mumbler franchises have over 177,000 social media followers. Current and recent brands that hav

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From corporate London fashion to the flowers of the Colne Valley
|Entrepreneurs

From corporate London fashion to the flowers of the Colne Valley

Teb Moema left her corporate fashion career as a learning and development manager in London, moved to the Colne Valley and set up her own floristry business, Moema Floral Design during the height of lockdown. After working in London and having a long career as training and development consultant for brands such as ASOS, Armani, YSL and Estée Lauder, Teb decided a move to the North was on the cards. After settling in the Colne Valley, she decided the time was right to go after her dream of worki

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September brings comedy and drama to Leeds Grand Theatre
|Fashion and Lifestyle

September brings comedy and drama to Leeds Grand Theatre

Magic Goes Wrong: Mon 30 Aug – Sat 4 Sep 2021 Olivier award-winning comedy favourites, Mischief, and magic legends Penn & Teller are set to cast a spell on Leeds Grand Theatre audiences from Mon 30 August to Sat 4 September with their first ever tour of Magic Goes Wrong. Mischief’s biggest and most daring comedy catastrophe to date follows a hapless gang of magicians as they stage an evening of grand illusion to raise cash for charity. As the magic turns to mayhem, accidents spiral out of cont

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Village nursing home makes new appointment
|Health & Wellbeing

Village nursing home makes new appointment

A nursing home that sits between Skipton and Keighley in Cross Hills, has appointed a new registered manager. Nicola Parker, who is a registered general nurse, with a Level 5 Diploma in Leadership Health & Social Care, has more than 12 years industry experience. She has joined Beanlands Nursing Home, which is owned and operated by Saltaire-based Czajka Care Group. Nicola has previously held registered nurse manager and clinical nurse manager roles, as well as working as the deputy manager for

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