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August 26, 2025|Business

Vivly Living launches First Homes discount scheme

Vivly Living, the Yorkshire-based residential developer and builder, has launched a pioneering discount scheme at its award-winning Shepley site near Huddersfield. The First Homes scheme enables buyers to purchase a selected Vivly home at a discount of 30 per cent of its market value at Knowle Grange in Shepley. Paul Brown, manager director explained: “The First Homes scheme is an imaginative and effective way of getting first-time buyers, especially young couples, on to the housing ladder.

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August 25, 2025|Health & Wellbeing

Samata Pilates welcomes new Batley studio

Following the success of its Heckmondwike studio, Samata Pilates has officially opened the doors to its second location in Batley. With a focus on quality classes and empowering individuals regardless of body types and fitness levels, the studio brings an accessible take on Reformer Pilates to even more people across West Yorkshire. Located on Hick Lane Batley, the studio was built on the belief that movement should feel good for every body type and every fitness level. Samata Pilates disrupts

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August 25, 2025|Fashion and Lifestyle

Celebrating the legacy of John Lennon

Tyson Kelly is IMAGINE LENNON in his own show, announcing an October 2025 UK Tour this Autumn. Experience an unforgettable and intimate evening celebrating the legacy of John Lennon, brought to life by the internationally acclaimed Tyson Kelly as John Lennon - renowned for his striking portrayal of Lennon in Broadway’s “Let It Be” and in the UK & World’s 1 Beatles Tribute “The Bootleg Beatles” for seven years. With over 15 years of dedication to the role, Kelly’s uncanny look and sound-a-lik

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August 25, 2025|Fashion and Lifestyle

Northern Ballet’s ‘Merlin’ returns to Yorkshire

This autumn, audiences will be wowed as Northern Ballet’s spellbinding Merlin – an epic adventure of hope, heartache, love and magic, heads to Leeds (13 – 20 September) and Sheffield (4 – 8 November) as part of a nationwide tour. Breathing new life into the origin story of this legendary character, this dazzling production explores how the young and inexperienced sorcerer mastered his magic to unite a warring kingdom. The fantastical production also re-imagines the source stories of well-known

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August 20, 2025|Health & Wellbeing

Longevity experts launch free community walk

In response to growing concerns over Yorkshire’s declining life expectancy, Otley-based health and longevity company STILL. is launching a free Community Longevity Walk aimed at inspiring people to live longer, healthier lives through connection, movement, and nature. Led by Dr Hannah Beaumont and Sam Guest, co-founders of STILL. the walk will take place on Sunday 21st September. Participants will meet in Otley centre at 10am and make their way to the scenic heights of Otley Chevin, with caref

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August 19, 2025|Fashion and Lifestyle

BBC releases the trailer for the brand-new Sally Wainwright drama, Riot Women

The BBC and BritBox have released a trailer for Riot Women, which provides the first glimpse at the brand-new drama series from the multi-BAFTA award-winning writer Sally Wainwright (Happy Valley, Last Tango in Halifax, Gentleman Jack). The six-part series, set and filmed in Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire, will be coming to BBC iPlayer and BBC One this October. It is made by Drama Republic, a Mediawan Company (One Day, Doctor Foster, The English), for the BBC and is a co-commission with BritBox

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August 18, 2025|Health & Wellbeing

Spa retreat with planning consent for guest rooms goes on the market for £1.3m

A spa and wellness retreat business in Fishlake near Doncaster has been put on the market, with a £1.3m price tag, with commercial property estate agent Ernest Wilson, part of Eddisons. Truffle Lodge Spa, which opened in 2015, employs a team of 20 freelance therapists and front-of-house staff, as well as local pool maintenance, gardening, and cleaning contractors. Along with treatment rooms, a swimming pool, games room, bar lounge, and other wellness facilities, a five-bedroom detached house w

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August 18, 2025|Business

EY strengthens Yorkshire business with new partner appointments

EY has appointed two new Partners in its Leeds office, as the firm continues to invest in top talent to meet client demand and support the growth of the business. Sophie Davies has been promoted to partner in EY’s Tax team after 13 years with the firm. Sophie has worked with a diverse variety of clients across the region and globally, and her EY career has also included a secondment in India. Sophie will continue to specialise in tax accounting following her promotion to Partner. Emma Harris

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August 18, 2025|Health & Wellbeing

Expert offers walking tips as Brits struggle to reach 10,000 daily steps

With over 30 million Brits in employment, many of our lives are centred around our careers. But, with many of us working sitting-down jobs, we’re often guilty of neglecting basic but essential exercise. According to recent data from Paace, the app that gets you earning with every step, 47 per cent of UK employees feel their current job role makes it difficult for them to achieve 10,000 steps a day. It’s often said that 10,000 daily steps are a minimum requirement to help reduce the risk of ser

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August 18, 2025|Health & Wellbeing

Ruth Langsford’s Memory Walk

TV presenter and Alzheimer’s Society Ambassador Ruth Langsford is inviting people across Yorkshire & Humber to join her by signing up to one of the charity’s 12 Memory Walks this Autumn. The annual charity event is a highlight in Ruth’s calendar, having first taken part in Alzheimer’s Society’s Memory Walk 15 years ago. Each year she’s just as keen to get involved again. Supporting a cause close to her heart is important to Ruth, having witnessed her dad and now her mum living with dementia.

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August 18, 2025|Health & Wellbeing

Beauty experts warn that wearing makeup to bed ages skin twice as fast

Makeup experts have warned that wearing makeup to bed can age skin twice as fast. Experts at online beauty retailer Branded Makeup have suggested that falling asleep without removing cosmetics can trap pollutants against the skin all night, dramatically accelerating the aging process. The skin's natural renewal cycle occurs mainly during sleep hours, with the face unable to properly repair itself when blocked by makeup residue. “The skin attempts to regenerate during sleep, but makeup form

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August 14, 2025|Travel and Environment

Icy waters? University of Hull scientists believe Yorkshire seas to be the warmest ever

Seas off the Yorkshire coast are set to break records in 2025 according to scientists at the University of Hull, with average surface temperatures now at their highest since modern records began in 1982. Hull Marine Laboratory researchers have recorded higher than average temperatures off the coast of Scarborough every month from January this year. The North Sea may now be the warmest it has ever been, they believe. With temperatures two degrees warmer than in the 1980s, some key marine spec

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