Author name: David Parkin

WELL that didn’t take long. Two years after the latest Gino D’Acampo-branded restaurant opened in Leeds, the hospitality firm behind it has done a pre-pack administration deal to shed a load of debt. The Leeds restaurant opened inside the Marriott Hotel off Boar Lane in 2023 with a £1.5m investment and “feature’s” (that is their punctuation, not […]

IT was just like it used to be. Big hitters in a restaurant, doing deals, swapping war stories and laughing uproariously. Garry Wilson and Darren Forshaw of Endless held a drinks event yesterday to celebrate their move to become joint chairs of the private equity firm they founded 20 years ago. In that two decades

JUST like that! Although, given my new glasses, perhaps I should say “Waay hey!” as Eric Morecambe often exclaimed while waggling them about. His specs, I mean. Having been to a performance of the comedy play The Last Laugh in London a few weeks ago the most apt phrase that is associated with Morecambe and Wise that

I PARTICULARLY like this photo above. Not because it shows me in action hosting a political question time event for candidates bidding to be the next mayor of a major English region. No, I’m very partial to it because a trick of the light makes it look like I’ve got a fringe…for the first time

YES, you read that headline right. It is one in the eye for the cynics among you who thought my only celebrity story involved Arnold Schwarzenegger. You see, I’m not a one-trick pony. More a dancing monkey with hidden depths. Hollywood star Val Kilmer’s death this week at the age of 65 brought back memories

I SUPPOSE it was always going to happen. The long arm of the law has finally caught up with me and I’m going to jail next week. Given that I’ve been committing the crime I’m being imprisoned for every week for more than 25 years, even I have to accept that I’m guilty as charged.

THAT is not the lobby of a luxury five star hotel in the photograph above. It is the reception area and some of the meeting space at Copthall Bridge, workspace provider WorkWell’s new office building in Harrogate. I’m not one for overstating things, but I think the launch of this building is a game changer

HERE’S a tip. If you want to ensure a full and smooth recovery from sciatica then don’t high kick on stage with the Rat Pack or boogie on down with Elvis. Last Friday’s Rodney Dalton Tribute Lunch was the culmination of several months of work since I came up with the idea of an event

AS a red, blue, purple and pink sky heralded dawn on Wednesday morning I made my way towards the M62 just after 6am. My trepidation at taking on one of Britain’s most unpredictable motorways quickly passed as the colourful dawn sky gave way to piercing, almost warm spring sunshine. I was heading to East Yorkshire

TWENTY years after founding private equity firm Endless, Garry Wilson was last night named Ambassador of the year at the Yorkshire Business of the Year Awards. I was invited to join the Endless table at the awards run by TheBusinessDesk.com at New Dock Hall near the Royal Armouries in Leeds, but like the rest of