PERHAPS it was the glorious bright Spring morning. Perhaps it was the lure of a speaker who has been lauded as one of our great Parliamentary orators. A capacity audience of 100 invited guests from the Yorkshire business community packed the offices of law firm Irwin Mitchell last Friday right in the heart of the […]
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THERE is always a real buzz and no shortage of energy when you get entrepreneurs together. That was certainly the case this week when I compered an event for KPMG, Irwin Mitchell, Business Growth Fund (BGF) and the London Stock Exchange. Focusing on the funding opportunities available for companies to accelerate their growth, it brought
The Yorkshire Asset Based Lending Dinner attracted 500 people to New Dock Hall in Leeds last night for an event that has already become something of an institution in the Yorkshire business community in just five years. I pointed out to the audience that I hadn’t seen a gathering of that much talent from the
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MADRID is one of my favourite European cities for a short break. It’s got everything you would expect a major capital city to have – but without being the size of London and other sprawling metropolises. You can easily traverse the Spanish capital on foot in a day, but I’d suggest plenty of stops for
WHAT do you get if you put a runner, a rugby player, a mountaineer and a broadcaster together? Not your usual night out is probably the answer. After announcing running legend Steve Cram and rugby league star Jamie Jones-Buchanan, we completed the line up for the Lord’s Taverners Balloon Debate this week with the addition
