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March 11, 2026|Business

Executive assistant role at Leeds Heritage Theatres

Leeds Heritage Theatres is seeking an outstanding executive assistant to provide high-level support to the chief executive and coordinate work across the senior leadership team. This pivotal role ensures the smooth running of the Executive Office and supports the delivery of our Strategic Plan. You will manage the CEO’s complex diary and inbox, prepare briefings, speeches, and presentations, and ensure they are fully prepared for meetings and public engagements. You will organise SLT meetings

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March 9, 2026|Business

Royal seal of approval for Hull College

Hull College is celebrating national recognition after being presented with one of the UK’s most prestigious education honours - the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Higher and Further Education - for its pioneering work with English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) students. The award places Hull College among a small group of elite institutions recognised at the highest national level for excellence, innovation, and benefit to society. The college was formally presented with a silver medal an

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March 9, 2026|Fashion and Lifestyle

Northern Ballet two fabulous new productions

Northern Ballet announces 2027 tour of Claude-Michel Schönberg’s Wuthering Heights, a ballet by David Nixon CBE, and a new immersive The Nutcracker-inspired experience. The Wuthering Heights tour will open in March 2027 at Leeds Grand Theatre before performances at Sheffield Lyceum Theatre, Nottingham Theatre Royal, London’s Sadler’s Wells, Norwich Theatre Royal and The Lowry in Salford throughout spring 2027. Marking David Nixon CBE’s first creation for Northern Ballet during his tenure as

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March 9, 2026|Fashion and Lifestyle

Last 4 weeks to see 'Ones to Watch' exhibition

One of Yorkshire’s most prestigious annual art exhibitions, Ones To Watch, now in its 13th year, closes in just 4 weeks’ time. See it at the Sunny Bank Mills Art Gallery in Farsley, between Leeds and Bradford, before it disappears for another year. Celebrating 36 talented emerging artists and makers who are based in, or originally from, Yorkshire, Ones To Watch brings together an exciting cross-section of contemporary practice. The exhibition spans painting, sculpture, jewellery, textiles, pho

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March 4, 2026|Fashion and Lifestyle

Cheshire’s biggest summer celebration returning this July

The Brit Fest taking place this Summer from Thursday 2nd to Sunday 5th July 2026 at Ashley Hall Showground in Altrincham, promises it’s biggest and most spectacular event yet – a four-day celebration of live music, community, and British culture that continues to grow from strength to strength. Headlining the festival will be Happy Mondays on Friday, Holly Johnson on Saturday, and ABC on Sunday, joined by a stellar cast of British music icons including Wet Wet Wet, Eternal, Peter Hook & The Li

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March 4, 2026|Fashion and Lifestyle

Celebrate International Women’s Day at Bradford Industrial Museum

The contribution of women in industry will be celebrated this International Women’s Day at Bradford Industrial Museum. A free volunteer led event at Bradford Council’s Bradford Industrial Museum will take place on Sunday 8 March from 11am to 3pm. Join the museum’s Weaving Gallery volunteers with Bradford Guild of Weavers, Spinners, and Dyers and have a go at spinning or weaving or check out their handmade knitwear which will be on sale. There will be performances from the local Buttercross

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March 2, 2026|Business

Leading York architects transforming St Peter's School

Award-winning architects brown + company are playing a pivotal role in the transformation of St Peter’s School in York. St Peter’s, which was founded in AD627 and is one of the oldest schools in the UK, is switching from a three to a two-school model. This structural change requires a wide-ranging overhaul of the school campus in Clifton. brown + company, based in Blossom Street in York, are working closely with St Peter’s to ensure that the new-look campus meets the needs of the school.

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March 2, 2026|Business

Professional studio base as podcast room launches in Leeds

Podcast Room Leeds, a purpose-built podcast and video recording studio, has opened in Leeds city centre, providing a fully managed production environment for businesses and creators across Yorkshire and the wider North of England. The launch responds to a significant and sustained rise in demand for professionally produced audio and video content, as organisations of all sizes turn to podcasting and video as core channels within their marketing and communications strategies. The studio has bee

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March 2, 2026|Business

Leeds Business School launches Impact and Growth programme to empower women in business

The Business School at Leeds Beckett University has launched WECAN – Impact and Growth, a new leadership and development programme designed to empower women to create impact in their businesses, organisations and wider communities. Building on the success of a previous programme, this initiative helps develop leadership capability, confidence and emotional intelligence among women at all stages of their professional journey. The programme, hosted by the Centre for Entrepreneurship and Knowledg

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March 2, 2026|Business

York Garden Centre raises its fundraising target for Wetherby children’s hospice

With two months of the charity year still to go, a Bradford-based garden centre group with a site in York has smashed its fundraising target and extended its commitment to a local children’s hospice. In April 2025, the teams at Yorkshire Garden Centres’ sites in West and North Yorkshire pledged to raise £30,000 for Martin House Children’s Hospice, the Wetherby-based independent charity that cares for babies, children and young people with life-shortening conditions from West, North and East Yo

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March 2, 2026|Fashion and Lifestyle

Leeds Lit Fest 2026: 6th to 14th June

Leeds Lit Fest is back! Returning for its eighth year, the award-winning festival of words and thought will take place across a variety of Leeds’ creative spaces and aims to bring belonging and community to the city’s literary scene with writers, poets and performers from both near and far. Festival organisers are delighted by the support they have received over the last seven years and aim to make this year’s festival bigger than before, with famous names and a packed schedule with all things

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March 2, 2026|Fashion and Lifestyle

Chesney Hawkes - Still the One and Only

Yorkshire Businesswoman talks to 1990's pop sensation about his new album and his upcoming UK tour including Brudenell Social Club in Leeds on 12th March. Thirty-five years after the one and only became one of the most recognisable songs of a generation, Chesney Hawkes remains as energised as ever. On the brink of releasing his new album Living Arrows and preparing for his 2026 UK tour, he reflects on longevity, fatherhood, friendship and the enduring thrill of stepping onto a stage. “I feel

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