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First Yorkshire Businesswoman magazine is coming soon
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First Yorkshire Businesswoman magazine is coming soon

I am delighted to announce that the very first Yorkshire Businesswoman magazine will publish here on our website at the end of November. We are working on the edition now and hope to bring you lots of inspirational stories from across the Yorkshire region. Initially this magazine will be digital, but we do hope to be able to print copies by Spring 2021. Our intention is to publish the magazine bi-monthly and we welcome contributions from business ladies from across Yorkshire. If you are a busin

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She was homeless for years, now Laura is climbing career ladder
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She was homeless for years, now Laura is climbing career ladder

After being homeless for six years, Laura Fieber is in a career, about to buy a house and get married - thanks to the Sheffield charity Nomad Open Doors. “I was one of the hidden homeless,” said Laura, now 27 and a housing officer with the charity. “I was constantly on the move. Only the kindness of friends who offered me their sofas kept me from sleeping on the streets. I wouldn’t have dared to dream about the life I have now.” Laura, who now lives in Hoyland Common, Barnsley, had an unhappy

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Christmas IS coming to Yorkshire this year
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Christmas IS coming to Yorkshire this year

Popular family attraction, Lotherton has announced that Santa IS heading for the heart of Yorkshire this year, for a very special fifth anniversary of the sell-out Christmas Experience. From 27 November 2020 to 3 January 2021, The Christmas Experience will return for its fifth fantastic year, and the elves have been busy tweaking the tinsel and adding the last sprinkle of festive fairydust to make this year as magical as ever. Tickets are on sale now and are being snapped up quickly, as Santa’

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Music and moorland combined in groundbreaking digital project from Marsden Jazz Festival
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Music and moorland combined in groundbreaking digital project from Marsden Jazz Festival

Marsden Jazz Festival is taking world-renowned musicians out onto the wild moorland above Marsden and recording them playing live for online audiences to enjoy! Marsden Jazz Festival, one of the UK’s longest running jazz festivals, has found a way to entertain their audiences by bringing music into their homes, despite having to cancel their 2020 festival in October due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Their new project is called Chronotope: Music in a Different Time and Place and it explores the ide

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People of Leeds encouraged to collect tree seeds
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People of Leeds encouraged to collect tree seeds

Leeds City Council is encouraging people within their household groups or support bubbles to collect tree seeds in their local parks and green spaces to help support the growing of future woodlands across Leeds. Running until November, residents can collect acorns, beech nuts, chestnuts and conkers, and leave them in seed collection boxes across the city for use as part of the council's Woodland Creation initiative. Twelve locations with collection boxes have now been set up in the city's gree

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Northern #AskHerToStand: A call for women leaders to shape our political world
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Northern #AskHerToStand: A call for women leaders to shape our political world

Date And Time: Thu, 1 October 2020 18:00 – 19:00 BST About this Event: 3 panellists followed by your opportunity to ask question. Our lead speaker is the fantastic Esther McVey, MP, strong supporter of Northern Women and giving business and professional women a political voice that business men take for granted. Fleur Butler, National Chairman, CWO who is has stood for the European Parliament, was the only woman on the Yorkshire Leaders Board during her time as Leader of a Council, and has su

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October in the Garden
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October in the Garden

Author: Martin Blunn, Solutionize Global October is the time for the end of harvest season for many of the summer crops with tomatoes, cucumbers green beans, courgettes and the last of the soft fruit. Now is the time to start looking at bringing on read for harvest your winter crops such as brassicas. October is a good month to plant your autumn varieties of garlic, if you have room plan some inside the greenhouse or polytunnel as come up faster than the outdoor ones and you can get a useful c

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Another lockdown could mean curtains for even the strongest marriage
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Another lockdown could mean curtains for even the strongest marriage

Couples that narrowly avoided separation after the first lockdown are unlikely to survive a second, says a leading Sheffield divorce solicitor. Bradie Pell, head of family law at Graysons, has been dealing with a tsunami of divorce enquiries since the first lockdown came to an end. The record-breaking levels have even been peaking above the yearly ‘divorce day' - the traditional spike in January that sees couples that have managed to hold it together for the festive period finally throwing the

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Embracing the rain
|Health & Wellbeing

Embracing the rain

Author: Beth Brown I woke up this morning, glanced at my rain-soaked window and immediately felt a little down. Yesterday had been full of sunshine and, as many of you will probably be able to relate to, the sun brings the happy factor. But, as the nights grow longer and the rain becomes heavier, I have vowed to romanticise the (insert expletive) out of autumn and winter. You may think that I’m being extremely premature in preparing for Autumn, because yes, I am aware that it is still the only

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Yorkshire-based luxury woollen homewares brand celebrates fourth birthday
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Yorkshire-based luxury woollen homewares brand celebrates fourth birthday

September 2020 sees Yorkshire-based luxury homewares brand, Adriana Homewares, celebrate its fourth birthday. It is particularly special, as it falls just in time for the tenth annual wool week celebrations (5-18 October), part of the national Campaign for Wool. The campaign, which counts HRH the Prince of Wales as its Patron, is a cause close to Founder, and proud Yorkshire-woman, Adriana Gentile’s heart. She has always championed the personal touch and hand makes all her products in her Leeds

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New Covid19 restrictions for Leeds
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New Covid19 restrictions for Leeds

The government has announced that Leeds will be placed under additional social contact restrictions, to help reduce the rising number of cases of COVID-19 and keep people safe. This is in addition to the national restrictions already in force, or due to come into force. Leeds is to be named an ‘area of intervention’, with the latest seven day COVID-19 rate rising to 108 per 100,000 people. The new local restrictions mean that from midnight on Friday 25 September: * You cannot meet or host pe

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What does the current COVID economic landscape look like?
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What does the current COVID economic landscape look like?

Most experts agree that it will take considerable time to restore the country to pre-COVID levels of economic prosperity, growth and productivity that we have previously enjoyed. We take a look at the impact on our economy and the jobs picture from a national and local level for both temporary and permanent placements to give an indication of current economic situation. Impact on the economy and unemployment Last month the Bank of England predicted that the jobless rate will almost double to 7

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