IT seems the Northern Powerhouse remains le subject du jour (as they are wont to say in Cleckheaton). Last week’s observations ensured plenty of feedback – leading to an entertaining swapping of texts with Leeds City Region LEP chairman Roger Marsh which ended with a few names of who both of us wouldn’t want to […]
PERHAPS it is because I wasn’t invited, but the news coming out of the MIPIM international property exhibition and conference in Cannes this week appears to have been rather muted. It has long been derided as a champagne-fuelled jolly – mainly by those who don’t get to go – but it is fair to say
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IT’S been 35 years since that memorable broadcast by an ecstatic Norwegian football commentator after his country shocked England with a 2-1 victory in a World Cup qualifier in Oslo. Many of those that weren’t even born in 1981 have heard, or even quote the pay-off line to Bjørge Lillelien’s radio coverage: “Your boys took
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LAST night I enjoyed the hospitality of the Leeds Law Society at its historic dinner. Well it was actually the law firm Ward Hadaway whose table I was on for the black tie do at the Aspire venue in Leeds. My invitation came from past president Philip Jordan, a partner at Ward Hadaway, who had
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