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Tony Hadley, thought his future lay in medicine until as a young lad he won a holiday singing competition and decided his vocation was to sing. The rest is history! Tony went on to front 80s New Romantic band Spandau Ballet
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Reflections of an Indian Dancer – a bold new solo show that beautifully blends contemporary western dance and classical Indian Kathak – is coming to Leeds Playhouse next month, encouraging audiences to explore their own sense of identity through movement and memories. Sooraj Subramaniam will perform his deeply personal and often poetic reflections on his life journey as a dancer in the Courtyard theatre on 1 April. Reflections of an Indian Dancer is anchored in three exquisite solo pieces in
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Tickets are on sale now for the hugely popular Springtime Live on Saturday April 1, which will celebrate the best of food, farming and countryside. Families can get up close to farm animals including rabbits, goats and sheep thanks to Ian's Mobile Farm which is based in Aberford near Leeds. There’s also Peppa Pig as well as Peter Rabbit who will be making his debut and both will be on stage throughout the day. Diggerland will also be at Springtime Live for the first time. All activities are
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A new Leeds 2023 pop-up hub has opened on the ground floor of popular shopping and leisure destination, Trinity Leeds. Free events, activities, exhibitions and a new range of merchandise will be showcased in the heart of the city centre, 7 days a week until the end of the year, as part of the city’s Year of Culture. The first event to be held in the space gives local people the chance to express their individual style and identity. Leeds-based American photographer, Casey Orr, will be deliveri
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A West Yorkshire shopping centre is set to welcome six new stores – and a centre manager – in a successful start to the year. Trinity Walk in Wakefield will play home to Europe’s biggest sports and fitness retailer, Sports Direct, who will take over a prominent space across two floors in a unit at the top of Teal Way. National independent jewellers, Warren James, will add even more sparkle to the centre when they open on the main mall near HMV and Clintons. Trinity Walk is looking even hea
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Joe Browns, the Leeds-based fashion and homes retailer, has announced what it called a ‘robust Christmas’ with sales up +19.5% in the four weeks to 25 December 2022. The strong figures were delivered against a backdrop of external economic factors including the on-going cost of living crisis, which continues to affect consumer confidence. The robust year-on-year growth, which annualised on similarly strong sales figures for Christmas 2022, was delivered across all the retailer’s channels inc
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A brand-new exhibition, featuring the work of the talented members of the West Yorkshire Print Workshop, has opened at the Sunny Bank Mills Gallery in Farsley near Leeds. The exhibition, which launches the gallery’s 2023 programme, showcases how the artists respond to the word “source” and what it means to them. Source is part of a programme of exhibitions and engagement at the gallery that celebrates textiles and their pivotal place in the West Yorkshire community and economy. Creative dir
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Think Valentine’s Day, think fancy restaurant or home cooked gourmet cuisine, but the team at I am Doner know that’s simply not the reality for the majority of their customers. Between late running Zoom meetings, putting kids to bed and an endless list of domestic chores, the average couple will be lucky to remember the night at all. I am Doner founder, Paul Baron, says “All the added pressures of increased energy bills and everything just being that but more expensive this year, means that we
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In response to the devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, Fleur restaurant has pledged to donate all profits made tomorrow, 9th February to earthquake relief in the region. The team, led by Chef, Bobby Geetha, will be donating 100% of their profits to Children’s Charity, UNICEF, who have called for support this week following this natural disaster. As reported across the globe, on Monday the 6th of February, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit Turkey and Syria. Since then thousands of peo
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Living and working in Brooklyn, New York, Leonardo Drew’s abstract works, made from an outpouring of chaotic elements, create installations that express immense tension and turbulence. The artist’s new work, Number 360 (2023), commissioned for YSP’s 18th-century Chapel
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And Able, the new clothing brand inspired by a young York woman’s battle with cancer Emily Rhodes, featured on the One Show recently with Deborah Meaden. And Able clothing has been subtly adapted to support patients having hospital treatment and procedures for cancer and other life-altering illnesses. Appearing alongside other businesses, the segment of the show unveiled how Deborah Meaden has mentored the co-founders, Joanne Nicholson and Claire Myles Wharton, and helped them to kickstart the
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Over the last few months, Leeds City Council has been looking at a number of options to tackle major financial pressures to establish a sustainable budget for 2023/24. As part of this, consideration was being given to the possible introduction of parking charges at its major parks along with some community parks. After gauging public opinion and taking feedback into account, the council has now taken the decision not to proceed with consultation on this proposal for its 2023/24 budget. While t
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