November 2015

HOSTING an event for KPMG Enterprise this week gave me the opportunity to have a close up look at the impressive new home of the business advisory firm in Leeds. The Sovereign Street building represents a big change from the firm’s previous home across the road. Walking in you immediately see staff walking around the …

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A DJ rapper, a former England cricketer nicknamed Badger because he fidgets a lot, an Apprentice candidate who irked Lord Sugar for not selling enough cat towers in a pet promotion and a sports presenter idolised by rugby league fans. Putting all four together in front of an audience of top business people and hoping …

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DO you have a doppelgänger? No, it’s not something you buy from Anne Summers, but the German word for look-a-like. It literally translates as “double-goer” (I’ve met one or two in my time) and is often applied when someone looks like a famous person. In Germany it is traditionally seen as a harbinger of bad …

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THE word legend is bandied about too much these days. But I was lucky enough to be in the presence of one yesterday. Former Leeds United great Norman Hunter was the guest at our lunch at the Foundry restaurant where we ‘celebrated’ the 40th anniversary of his infamous fight with Francis Lee of Derby County. …

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