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September 14, 2020|Business

Business owners urged to act now to avoid problems escalating when furlough scheme ends

Business owners in Yorkshire who are concerned about the fast-approaching end of the furlough scheme need to act quickly to give their company finances the best chance of staying on an even keel. Eleanor Temple, chair of insolvency and restructuring trade body R3 in Yorkshire and a barrister at Kings Chambers in Leeds, is advising regional employers who are worried about meeting their wage commitments after the close of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme on 31 October to start looking for adv

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September 14, 2020|Health & Wellbeing

Exercise Myths

Personal Trainer and Online Coach, Adam Batchelor of NRG FOR LIFE dispels a few exercise myths and gives his top tips on the best exercises to help with your running. Since lockdown began, the number of people taking up running and cycling has gone through the roof. Whilst this should be applauded it is important not to neglect other aspects of health and fitness – namely, strength training. I often get people coming to me that concentrate their fitness routines around improving their runnin

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September 14, 2020|Entrepreneurs

Multitask Personnel celebrates 10 years in business

Multitask Personnel, the Rotherham based specialist recruitment agency, is celebrating 10 years in business in September 2020. Set up by Managing Director, Claire Lee in 2010, the multi-service recruitment partner is marking the occasion with a series of events and campaigns over the coming months, making sure both clients and staff can get involved in the celebrations. Initially set up as a home based business with Claire working from her dining room, Multitask Personnel now employs 10 members

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September 14, 2020|Lifestyle

Museum sounds out city ahead of new musical display

Singers and performers from Leeds are being asked to help capture the sound of a city as they collaborate on a beautiful new series of musical mosaics. The imaginative idea will see submissions by musicians, choirs and spoken word artists from all around the city synchronised as part of a stunning soundscape at Leeds City Museum later this year. The Sounds Good installation will look to explore the impact music can have on mood and will also include a piece created by with people living with D

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September 14, 2020|Lifestyle

Leeds people urged to help city stay out of further restrictions

People in Leeds have been asked to do everything they can to help after today’s government announcement that the city will not be subject to further COVID-19 restrictions and will instead receive enhanced support towards managing the rise in infection rates. This means that Leeds will move up one stage from being placed on the government watchlist last week as an area of concern, as the seven-day rate now stands 66 per 100,000 people with a test positivity of 6%. Enhanced support status means

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September 11, 2020|Lifestyle

German Christmas Market will not take place in Leeds

The organisers of Leeds’s German Christmas market on Millennium Square have confirmed that the event will not take place this year due to ongoing uncertainty around COVID-19. Leeds City Council’s partners at Frankfurt City Council have this week taken the difficult decision to cancel this year’s event in the interests of public safety. The council will now be working with partners locally to look at alternative ways to celebrate the festive season safely in Leeds, in line with social distancin

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September 11, 2020|Lifestyle

Music and media stars launch search for song for Yorkshire

Welcome to Yorkshire, London North Eastern Railway (LNER) and award-winning classical opera singer Lizzie Jones MBE have launched a brand-new music competition to help celebrate and promote the county as we all adapt to life with COVID-19. The LNER Song for Yorkshire contest is aimed at aspiring singers and songwriters of all ages who are being invited to compose an original song to shout loud and proud about why the county is such a great place to live, study, work and of course to visit. Lea

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September 11, 2020|Yorkshire-Kitchen

Eat Me Café & Social

By Anna Mason Do you have a place you go to eat where you always order the same dish? Mine is Eat Me Café in Scarborough, and that dish is a ramen noodle bowl: a bottomless pit of homemade broth with pak choi, Chinese leaf and a soy half egg, usually with fried tofu, but occasionally, chicken. Almost 20 years ago fresh out of studies, I worked as an English teacher in Taiwan and the food was often - interesting. For six months I basically rotated between noodle cafes, Subway and the Teppanya

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September 10, 2020|Business

Three organisations launch a Global Women’s Empowerment Conference

Thrive Law, Equal Talent and The Career Mum have come together to create a new conference under the banner of the ‘She Has No Limits’ movement that will bring together like-minded women to inspire, educate and support one another. Each one of these businesses/communities already works to coach, mentor and support working women and joining forces enables them to scale their effort even further. The impact of Covid-19 has been enormous, and this conference aims to help women bounce back and conti

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September 9, 2020|Business

Coronavirus update from Thrive Law

Boris Johnson has today confirmed that, from Monday 14 September, group gatherings indoors with more than six people will be illegal. Unfortunately, this seems to mean that (once again) all in-person networking events have to be postponed. It’s important, however, for employers and employees to note that these restrictions do not apply to workplaces. It was confirmed that schools and universities will still open. Something we’re seeing a lot is employees seeking to continue working from home;

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September 9, 2020|Lifestyle

Leeds Heritage Theatres receives National Lottery grant

Leeds Heritage Theatres has received £119,900 from The National Lottery Heritage Fund to help address the impact of COVID-19 on its three heritage venues. Since the doors to Leeds Grand Theatre, City Varieties Music Hall and Hyde Park Picture House closed on March 17 2020, the company has lost 99% of its income (earned through ticket, bar and merchandise sales), and furloughed 96% of staff; with a small team being kept on to manage customer refunds, reschedule performances and maintain necessar

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September 9, 2020|Lifestyle

High hopes for word perfect rooftop restoration project

When notoriously shrewd Yorkshire investor Sir Arthur Ingram first commissioned the imposing lettering atop Temple Newsam House almost four centuries ago, he certainly got his money’s worth. Thought to be the wordiest architectural addition of its kind anywhere in Britain, the lengthy statement still spans the rooftop today and is one of the mansion’s most recognisable features. So when staff at the house decided the mammoth motto needed a lick of paint, they wanted to get an up close look to

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