July 2015

YORKSHIRE doesn’t appear to be doing well on the hotel front at present. Just when you can start counting cranes again on the skyline of the region’s cities – a sure sign of a confident economy – then a few high profile hotel developments have gone pear-shaped. To be honest, you didn’t need to be […]

AFTER an interesting, educational and enjoyable meeting of The Alternative Board, chaired by Martin Allison, this week, I made the trip across the Pennines to the launch of a new gin. Someone in our board meeting misheard me and thought I was off to the opening of a new gym. They clearly don’t know me

I CAN tell I’m getting to know the Great Yorkshire Show: I didn’t need to use a map to navigate my entire way around this vast event this week. The annual agricultural jamboree enjoyed fantastic weather and great attendances over its three days and is now so much more than a place where farmers show

IT must be my retro fascination with music hall acts and variety performers that attracts me to the world of working mens’ clubs. As a student in Huddersfield I was a member of a local club in Moldgreen, making weekly trips to see a range of ‘turns’. One I remember, was called Rocky Rhodes and

WHEN Chancellor George Osborne mooted his Northern Powerhouse idea last year I echoed the thoughts of the majority of business people across the North and welcomed it. For too long the North has been the runt of the economic litter, losing out to the South in terms of government spending, foreign investment and transport projects.