Author name: David Parkin

IF there is a better place to eat on a sunny day in Harrogate than La Feria, then I’d like to find it. (Please email invites to this address). The tiny restaurant serving Spanish-style chicken and tapas, nestled in a former antiques shop on a roundabout in the spa town, has made the move up […]

WHY TV companies persist with dull personalities like Alan Shearer and Michael Owen, I really don’t know. Shearer’s BBC documentary looking back at Euro 96 this week was so uninspiring that I switched over. Thank goodness then for a smattering of character elsewhere in sport. Smoking cigars during his round, the superbly-named American golfer Rocco

The Sky Bet Football League season may only just have finished but there isn’t long to wait until a feast of football is served up at Euro 2016. Events business COPA has teamed up with independent corporate finance firm Sentio Partners and sports betting company Sky Bet to run a competition with a difference that allows

GIVEN that the last time I went to a Test Match I saw one wicket fall all day, I hoped I might see a few batsmen out at Headingley last Friday. On top of watching Jonny Bairstow achieve an emotional 140 we saw 15 wickets tumble during the day as England were bowled out and

WHAT do you get if you put multi gold medal winning decathlete Daley Thompson, rugby league great Kevin Sinfield, World Cup winning captain Bobby Moore and pioneering Victorian mountaineer Edward Whymper into a hot air balloon together? Well, a great charity night out for one, and secondly a fiercely competitive debate as the advocates of

SO there I was at a rugby club beer festival talking high finance, high fashion and in high spirits. I’m really warming to the idea of business development opportunities at beer festivals, but I think I need to go to a few more before I’m completely sure. Historic Leeds rugby club Leodiensian RUFC held their

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

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