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March 6, 2020|News

Female homelessness highlighted ahead of International Women’s Day

Simon on the Streets, a West-Yorkshire homelessness charity has joined forces with students from the University of Leeds RAG society and Leeds Street Outreach to raise awareness of female rough sleepers ahead of International Women’s Day. Wednesday 4th March saw charity workers and volunteers joined by the students in Leeds’s city square and alongside Hughie’s Street Kitchen where participants held placards highlighting the hardships faced by women who are homeless. A sofa was also placed in th

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March 6, 2020|Lifestyle

Garden Centre partners with TV gardener for fourth year

A Bradford Garden Centre is continuing its collaboration with a Yorkshire gardener and TV presenter. Tong Garden Centre has partnered with Leeds based garden designer and ITV’s Love Your Garden presenter, Katie Rushworth for a fourth consecutive year. Of the renewed collaboration, Tong Garden Centre’s Marketing Manager, Jo Dales said: “We’re thrilled to be working with Katie again as her warmth, passion and knowledge make her a natural fit to work with the team here at Tong.” “This year, Kati

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March 5, 2020|Fashion and Lifestyle

New £90m designer outlet village in North England

£90m invested in new 250,000 sq ft outlet and leisure destination to open in North of England The scheme will be one of the most easily accessible retail and leisure destinations in the UK Scotch Corner Designer Village will attract extensive, affluent regional catchment, passing motorists and tourists 23 brands confirmed, including BOSS, Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, Adidas, Levi’s and Mint Velvet Plans to build the leading outlet shopping and leisure destination in the North of England have

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March 4, 2020|Entrepreneurs

Smash the barriers to your dream job in construction, Dame Julie tells schoolgirls

Rotherham’s best-known businesswoman Dame Julie Kenny CBE has urged schoolgirls not to let sexism stand in their career path. Heading up a Sky’s The Limit careers event at Wentworth Woodhouse, the Rotherham stately home she has played an important part in resurrecting, Julie told 60 schoolgirls from Sheffield, Barnsley and Rotherham about her own journey to success. “When I was at school the expectation was for girls to get a job to tide them over until they got married and had children,” she

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March 4, 2020|Entrepreneurs

Over half of women workers would consider a digital career if they knew how to retrain

The Institute of Coding (IoC), a government-supported initiative designed to respond to the UK’s digital skills gap, recently hosted its second annual conference at the IET Savoy Place in London. At this two-day event, new research from the IoC and Deloitte was shared that provides powerful insights into the factors that motivate women to study and work in the digital sector. It reveals that 54 per cent of women working in non-digital jobs said the main reason they were not pursuing a digital c

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March 4, 2020|News

The Countess of Wessex to visit community hub in Leeds

The Old Fire Station in Gipton will welcome special guest, The Countess of Wessex on Wednesday 11th March 2020 to meet investors and tenants of the renovated centre at the heart of the East Leeds community. The Old Fire Station was purchased and transformed into a fantastic multipurpose hub in 2017 with a £3million grant from Jimbo’s Fund (the late Jimi Heselden’s legacy) managed by Leeds Community Foundation. The thriving centre is at the heart of East Leeds, bringing local people and the comm

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March 3, 2020|What's on

Shows set to launch UK tours at Leeds Grand Theatre

In a year that sees many West End and Broadway shows announce their first UK tours, Leeds Grand Theatre can reveal that cult classic HEATHERS THE MUSICAL will run from Tuesday 3 to Saturday 7 November 2020, DREAMGIRLS from Tuesday 13 April to Saturday 1 May 2021 and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s SCHOOL OF ROCK from Monday 17 to Saturday 22 May 2021. CILLA THE MUSICAL will also return from Monday 9 to Saturday 24 November 2020. HEATHERS THE MUSICAL. Tuesday 3 to Saturday 7 November 2020. In the immortal

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March 3, 2020|Yorkshire-Kitchen

Treat Mum to an Unmissable Afternoon Tea Experience at Dakota Leeds

Dakota Leeds has created the ultimate luxury experience this Mother’s Day, designed to pamper that special lady in your life. Offering a deluxe backdrop and all the ingredients to spoil mums, guests are invited to relax and enjoy a heavenly afternoon tea together over a refreshing glass of Hattingley Valley sparkling wine. Situated in the hotel’s Cocktail Lounge, the afternoon tea features a tempting array of quintessential sweet and savoury items, including delicate finger sandwiches, melt in

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March 2, 2020|Yorkshire-Kitchen

Women Artists in the Collection and Afternoon Tea

£18 8 Mar 2020 / 11.00 to 12.15 Yorkshire Sculpture Park In 2020, YSP presents an exhibition programme dominated by important female artists, including our headline exhibition by acclaimed Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos in the Underground Gallery. Celebrate International Women’s Day at YSP with this exciting opportunity to explore the work of some of the remarkable female sculptors in the open-air collection. Join YSP Curator Sarah Coulson to discover the story of YSP’s longest loan, The

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March 2, 2020|Lifestyle

Barnsley curator awarded fellowship

Natalie Murray, Collections and Exhibitions Manager at Barnsley Museums has been announced today by The Headley Trust and Art Fund as one of the four successful recipients of the second round of the Headley Fellowships with Art Fund, a major national funding programme for museums professionals. The Headley Fellowships with Art Fund is a three-year programme that was launched in 2018 to give curators the opportunity of focused time to research their institution’s collections, providing £600,000

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February 27, 2020|Fashion and Lifestyle

Do you have a signature perfume?

For many years, I have worn Chanel Coco Noir perfume, I love it and still use regularly, mainly because whenever I have thought about changing it, I seem to get a flood of comments about how gorgeous I smell. Recently, I was at a ladies networking event and received a goody bag and in it was a sample perfume. Now to be honest, I tend not to bother even smelling them as they are usually not very nice but I did on that occasion and was immediately bowled over by how gorgeous the smell was. Inves

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February 25, 2020|What's on

Meet the real Mr Wickham and learn to dance like Mr Darcy

Huddersfield Literature Festival promotes interest in all things Regency From the recent premiere of the film Emma to the 2017 release of the £10 bank note featuring an image of the Pride and Prejudice author, there has been renewed interest in the work of Jane Austen and all things Regency. Now, 25 years since the BBC’s memorable adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle, Huddersfield Literature Festival (19-29 March) is bringing the real Mr Wickham, actor Adri

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