February 2016

THE two places where the most business seems to get done these days are coffee shops and beer festivals. Nothing surprising about the former – merchants, financiers and entrepreneurs have been meeting in coffee houses for centuries. Forget the recent proliferation of Starbucks and Costa, the real coffee revolution was in the late 1600s when […]

THERE are plenty of successful entrepreneurs with brass in Yorkshire…and then there are those with just brassneck. A press release was issued this week announcing that Yorkshire entrepreneur Matt Haycox has signed a publishing deal to co-author a new book revealing the secrets of success in life and business. Also involved in the book is

GOVERNMENT minister James Wharton was in Leeds last week to give a short speech on how the city’s financial services sector can be promoted as part of the Government’s much-vaunted Northern Powerhouse initiative. Apparently he was delayed arriving at the event because his train was late. You couldn’t make it up. If that doesn’t underline

IT was only when Yogi Bear and Booboo, two Andy Pandys and a woman dressed as Super Mario walked passed me that it really sank in that I was at one of the great British sporting occasions – the darts. The first direct Leeds Arena hosted the first stage of Premier League Darts last night