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Riding the coronavirus wave
|Entrepreneurs

Riding the coronavirus wave

Entrepreneur Claire Young was made famous by her role as the highly driven runner up of series four of ‘The Apprentice’ where she was dubbed a ‘Rottweiler’ by Lord Sugar for her tenacious approach in the boardroom and drive not to quit. She beat 40,000 candidates to reach the final and this experience inspired Claire to set up ‘School Speakers’ - the UK’s No 1 speaking agency working alongside schools, colleges and universities across the world to provide talks to students and staff. She also wo

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Garden Centre steps in to help create lockdown TV garden
|Lifestyle

Garden Centre steps in to help create lockdown TV garden

The team at a Bradford garden centre responded quickly to a request from a TV production company to provide plants to create a lockdown garden. With regular filming of ITV's Love Your Garden suspended due to Coronavirus, Tong Garden Centre stepped in to deliver peat free compost and plants to presenter Katie Rushworth's Baildon home for her to create a grow your own garden for a new series, Grow Your Own at Home with Alan Titchmarsh. Capitalising on the rising interest of growing your own food

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TV presenter backs virtual hospice Bake Off
|Yorkshire-Kitchen

TV presenter backs virtual hospice Bake Off

TV presenter Sam Nixon is backing the Barnsley Hospice virtual Bake Off. Sam is appealing to potential star bakers to get involved in the virtual Bake Off to help raise some ‘dough’ for Barnsley Hospice during the Covid-19 pandemic. Barnsley Hospice is losing £2,300 a day due to the Covid-19 crisis, and in March it launched an urgent appeal for funds. Sam Nixon of Pop Idol, Celebrity MasterChef and CBBC’s Junior Bake Off fame, has remained true to his Barnsley roots and is supporting the laun

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Cooking with Tim
|Yorkshire-Kitchen

Cooking with Tim

Chef Tim Bilton has a passion for cooking with Aspargus and his recipe below most certainly will prove to be a winner with those with have a "savoury tooth". Asparagus Quiche Short Crust Pastry 250 Self Raising Flour 125g Margarine or butter or 50/50 butter and lard Pinch Salt Splash Water Put the flour and salt in a large bowl and add the margarine. Use your fingertips to rub the butter into the flour until you have a mixture that resembles coarse breadcrumbs with no large lumps of butter

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Holistic Health
|Health & Wellbeing

Holistic Health

Holistic health is the connection between our body, mind and soul and Vicky from VJW Holistic Therapies shares her expert knowledge with us during "Mental Health Awareness Week". Our wellbeing is something that we can easily overlook in ‘normal’ day to day life. But in these current circumstances it is more important than ever. At VJW Holistic Therapies our approach is always holistic - the treatment of a person as a whole. So, Abbie, Ciel and myself have taken the time to collectively give s

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Behind the scenes
|Health & Wellbeing

Behind the scenes

What a make-up artist does on lockdown! Sonia Schofield is an award winning wedding make-up artist. She also works in tv and film and is the head of hair and make-up for York Fashion Week. Here she tells us what she has been up to during lockdown and shares with us her latest video on how to do make-up as we return to our normal lives. Being a hair and make-up artist felt like an impossible career to maintain during the Corona virus pandemic. I have a very up close and personal job so my bus

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A new financial wellbeing initiative launched for the women of Yorkshire
|Entrepreneurs

A new financial wellbeing initiative launched for the women of Yorkshire

She Can Prosper - Helping women become the masters of their financial futures. A new female focussed initiative has been launched in Yorkshire. She Can Prosper is the brainchild of Diane Watson whose 27 years of financial planning experience has inspired her to build an enterprise that aims to help women become more financially aware and have greater control over their personal finances. Throughout her years working closely with clients to create their financial future, Watson noticed and unco

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East Yorkshire support group opens celebrates first anniversary and charitable status
|Entrepreneurs

East Yorkshire support group opens celebrates first anniversary and charitable status

Despite the uncertainties surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic, the founder of Market Weighton based support group, Talking about Loss has reason to be optimistic as the group approaches its first anniversary and celebrates achieving charitable status. Following the death of her father, Christopher Munby, Jacqui Gunn was inspired to use the legacy that he left her to set up a support group for people to talk freely about loss and hosted Talking about Loss's first meeting in June last year at Bisho

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A nutritional wonder
|Yorkshire-Kitchen

A nutritional wonder

Our expert chef Tim Bilton may still have some time to wait until the football starts again however his passion for cooking with Asparagus can kick-start now that Spring is well and truly here. I always look forward to the arrival of the first locally grown asparagus in spring. With the same excitement as new life in the fields of new-born baby lambs, blossoms on fruit trees knowing they will be bearing fruit later in the year, young tender shoots of spring vegetables. (And the start of the f

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Rachel’s support for local fashion shops
|Fashion and Lifestyle

Rachel’s support for local fashion shops

By Rachel Peru, Fashion Correspondent. rachelperumodel.com [http://] Show support for your local independent fashion shops #supportlocal Firstly, I hope everyone is managing to keep well and positive during what is a difficult time for us all. It’s definitely given me time to reflect on a few things and I’ve been keeping creatively busy which helps keep me sane. I’ve always been a huge fan of supporting local shops and they need our support now more than ever. Retail will no doubt take years

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Long standing Leeds charity appoint new CEO
|Entrepreneurs

Long standing Leeds charity appoint new CEO

Leeds based charity Simon on the Streets, which supports homeless and vulnerable people across West Yorkshire, has appointed Natalie Moran as CEO. In her new role, Natalie will oversee the running of the organisation, co-ordinate its outreach support and drive fundraising activities, as well as spearheading the charity’s future development and growth. Natalie will also work closely with other local charities, policy makers and local authorities to help shape the future for the region’s homeless

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Queen of clutter aims to tackle South Yorkshire’s hoarding habits
|Entrepreneurs

Queen of clutter aims to tackle South Yorkshire’s hoarding habits

A UK not-for-profit organisation which helps individuals to overcoming the chaos caused by amassing excessive amounts of clutter is set to offer a helping hand to hoarders across South Yorkshire after launching a new dedicated support service. Hoarding Disorders UK, which delivers practical advice and support for people affected by hoarding, excessive clutter and chronic disorganisation, has marked the launch of National Hoarding Awareness Week and Mental Health Awareness Week with opening of a

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