Author name: David Parkin

THERE’S been a worrying feeling of autumn in the air for the last few mornings. So if there is one place to go in an attempt to celebrate summer and stave off a change of season, then it’s York Races. The annual Welcome to Yorkshire Ebor Festival is a four-day extravaganza that brings together some […]

IT wasn’t very long ago that I was bemoaning the lack of eccentrics in modern society. Then I was introduced to a genuine, cast iron, rock solid, 24 carat one. At 3 o’clock tomorrow afternoon Ed Wood will be watching the kick-off of Oldham against Walsall in Division One. Nothing unusual in that, hundreds of

YOU know it’s been a quiet week when the highlight is being followed on Instagram by a woman in her underwear in her profile picture. Actually, it’s not been that quiet, but that particular episode did add a rare frisson of excitement during a working week where everyone else appears to be on holiday. When

ANYONE who tells me they enjoy reading my blogs and then invites me to an event is almost certain of my attendance. And so it was when a complimentary email arrived from Douglas Adamson, inviting me to the launch of his second novel. Having never read the first one, I thought I ought to play

JUST to confirm, the photograph above isn’t of Theresa May’s new Cabinet, or even a recreation of the meeting of the five families from The Godfather. It was taken this week in the boardroom of Yorkshire Bank’s headquarters on Merrion Way in Leeds at a retirement lunch for David Maybury, the head of the bank’s

IF you’ve been feeling a bit unsettled given the political and financial uncertainty of the last few weeks, then a trip to the Great Yorkshire Show is one way of reaffirming your confidence in the world. Tens of thousands of people descend on the Yorkshire Showground in Harrogate for the countryside’s annual three-day shindig. You

IF there is one thing that has emerged since the vote to leave the European Union, it is that businesses are looking to focus on the positives amid the uncertainty. Whether you voted to remain in the EU or leave it, the reality is that financial markets and the pound have been hit hard by

GETTING run over by a golf buggy wasn’t my finest sporting hour. It isn’t a story I’m eager to tell either. But memories of that infamous occasion came flooding back this week with news of the death of great Fleet Street sports writer and editor Peter Corrigan from cancer at the age of 80. You

MY memories of Chris Meek, the racing driver and entrepreneur who died recently, prompted an email with some fascinating recollections from Robert Barr, whose family founded and ran motors and coach tour business Wallace Arnold. Robert led a management buyout of the coach holidays arm of the famous business backed by 3i. And one thing