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January 24, 2025|Health & Wellbeing

Change the way you clean your home in 2025

People are now more conscious of the products that make it into their home – in terms of what they put into their body, on their skin AND what they clean their home with. The approach to cleaning our homes and businesses has changed hugely over the past couple of years. The focus now is on what is best for our body, our wellbeing, and the environment. Less in now certainly more……. less additives, less chemicals, less packaging. Yorkshire Businesswoman member, Mo, founder of Yorkshire bas

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January 24, 2025|Business

What do Defra’s simpler recycling plans mean for businesses in Yorkshire?

The new Simpler Recycling rules affect any business with 10 or more full-time employees and arrangements to comply with them must be in place by 31 March 2025. Businesses that fit under this category must arrange separate collections of food waste, paper and cardboard (can be combined), and other dry recycling (glass, plastic, and metals, which can be combined). It means businesses can no longer throw any of these materials away with general waste. The rules apply to businesses regardless of h

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January 21, 2025|Fashion and Lifestyle

Yorkshire Sculpture Park's new exhibition set to open

Keepers of Time by Wakefield-based artist Tony Wade celebrates the majesty of trees, time beyond our lifespans, mindfulness and nature connectedness, inviting us to notice the beauty in our local environment. It presents a series of 10 intricate digital drawings of the oldest trees at YSP, created over the last year as part of Wade’s documentation of ancient and veteran trees for the Woodland Trust’s Ancient Tree Inventory. This inventory is a record of some of the most important trees in the

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January 21, 2025|Health & Wellbeing

MP Katie White opens the £12m elective care Hub at Wharfedale Hospital

The new £12million Elective Care Unit at Wharfedale Hospital – which reduces the time patients wait for surgery and provides protected space for planned operations to take place – has been officially opened by Katie White, MP for North West Leeds. Katie joined Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust’s Chair Dame Linda Pollard, director of estates and facilities Craige Richardson and a range of other colleagues to officially open the facility. She also spoke with staff, toured the new facility and l

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January 21, 2025|Fashion and Lifestyle

Russell Wilson: A Spring Table

8 March – 29 June 2025 YSP Centre An exhibition of new nature-inspired paintings by Russell Wilson opens at Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) this spring. Installed in the YSP Centre, A Spring Table showcases 48 colourful new paintings by Derbyshire-based artist Russell Wilson. Celebrating the abundance of nature on display in spring, each painting captures a feeling of optimism, with bright light and warmth. Visitors to the exhibition in the Upper Space of the YSP Centre building, will find

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January 20, 2025|Entrepreneurs

Textile manufacturing leader appointed Deputy Lieutenant of West Yorkshire

Managing director of AW Hainsworth, Amanda McLaren, has been recruited to the position of Deputy Lieutenant of West Yorkshire by the Monarch’s Lord-Lieutenant, Ed Anderson CBE. Amanda will support Ed Anderson CBE, the Monarch's personal representative in West Yorkshire, in representing the Crown, developing closer links among the community, and upholding public service and civic engagement traditions. The Lord Lieutenant’s duties can include escorting royal visitors with official visits to Wes

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January 20, 2025|Fashion and Lifestyle

Full celebrity and professional dancer line-up announced for Strictly Live tour 2025

Following the captivating Saturday night Strictly final on BBC One, the full line-up of celebrities and professional dancers for this year’s highly anticipated Strictly Come Dancing Live UK Tour are announced. The 30 sparkle-filled shows, which kick off in January 2025, feature seven FAB-U-LOUS couples: Jamie Borthwick and Michelle Tsiakkas; Montell Douglas and Kai Widdrington; Wynne Evans and Katya Jones; Tasha Ghouri and Aljaž Škorjanec; JB Gill, Amy Dowden and Lauren Oakley; Sarah Hadland an

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January 20, 2025|Fashion and Lifestyle

Northern Ballet's new children's ballet premiers in Leeds in February

Northern Ballet's new children's ballet Hansel & Gretel premieres next month at the Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre in Leeds from 15 - 22 February, before embarking on an extensive UK tour from 1 March - 7 June. The show will visit Hull, Middlesbrough, Goole, Doncaster, Harrogate, Durham, Bridlington and Huddersfield. In an environmental themed reimagining of the classic Brothers Grimm fairy tale, Hansel and Gretel take a trip into the forest, unaware of the damage they leave behind. When th

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January 20, 2025|Business

PR dreams are made of cheese

Northern food and drink PR specialist, North PR has been appointed as Emmi UK’s retained PR agency to support its portfolio of premium cheese brands. Emmi is Switzerland’s largest milk processor and one of Europe’s leading premium dairies which owns the Kaltbach, Onken and Emmi Caffè brands. North PR will support its collection of premium cheese brands including Kaltbach, an award-winning range of cave-aged Swiss cheese, Bettine, a soft creamy goat’s cheese from the Netherlands and Emmi’s ra

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January 20, 2025|Fashion and Lifestyle

Premiere in Bradford for BBC crime thriller Virdee

Fans of author AA Dhand’s novels are in with a chance to attend the Bradford premiere of the eagerly anticipated new BBC crime thriller Virdee. Set and filmed in Bradford, Virdee tells the story of Detective Harry Virdee (Staz Nair), a dedicated cop estranged from his Sikh family after marrying Saima (Aysha Kala), a Muslim woman. A turf war is brewing, with the police losing their grip on gang rivalries, as they spill out onto the streets of Bradford. When a young dealer is murdered, Harry’s d

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January 20, 2025|Fashion and Lifestyle

Dean Clough to host monthly artisan market

A new and exciting Artisan Market is coming to Halifax with a monthly event hosted at the iconic Dean Clough destination. Dean Clough has partnered with the highly accomplished RSH Artisan Markets which already operates successful markets in Skipton, Haworth, Settle and Bingley. Its high quality, handmade artisan goods concept drives hundreds of visitors each month with a waiting list of traders for each venue. From Sunday 23rd March 2025, Dean Clough will host monthly markets that promise a

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January 20, 2025|Health & Wellbeing

HelloHope partners with Miss Yorkshire to run Mindful Malta retreat

Harrogate’s Chloe McEwen, the reigning ‘Miss Yorkshire’ has partnered with HelloHope, a mental health organisation to host a mindful retreat. The 7-day ‘Hello Mindful Malta’ retreat will take place from the 2nd-9th May in a luxury 5-star villa in Malta run by Chloe McEwen and HelloHope’s founder and CEO Ellie MacDonald. Participants will enjoy a week of rejuvenation of mind, body and soul and enjoy self-care sessions, beach days and fitness plans to take home. A gentle hike, yoga and use o

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