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
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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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
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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
