IF I hadn’t embraced the Christmas spirit this festive season, then there was the perfect opportunity to do it at an event at the Andaz Hotel next to Liverpool Street Station in London this week. The Andaz, formerly known as the Great Eastern Hotel, is an impressive part of Hyatt Hotels’ portfolio of London properties. […]
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THEY sit like uneasy neighbours squabbling over the size of a privet hedge between their houses. The North West and Yorkshire have had a rivalry stretching back to the Wars of the Roses. Now the argument is often over the respective merits of each region’s economy, particularly over whether Manchester outshines Leeds when it comes
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LEEDS has been named the best big city in England to live in. That was the result of a survey this week where Yorkshire’s biggest city beat six other major English cities including Manchester and Birmingham in MoneySuperMarket’s 2015 quality of living index. Apparently it scored highly in a number of categories with Leeds residents
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