WHEN people ask me what I do it is always difficult to explain and sell my services in a few short sentences. “This and that, mainly that,” doesn’t really encapsulate it either. So when someone suggested that I produce a “show reel” to feature some highlights of my events work it sounded like a good […]
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WILL you forgive me if I choose not to join the orgy? Tom Riordan has announced he is to step down as chief executive of Leeds City Council at the end of this year. He is moving on from a job he has done for the last 14 years. You would have thought he’d retired,
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I SPENT a couple of days in London at the start of the week and unlike my recent trips, the weather wasn’t grey and wet. The sun shone like it supposed to in spring and I felt distinctly over-dressed in flannel trousers, jacket, V-neck jumper and wool tie. Mind you, if I choose to dress
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I’VE finally found a car that I think channels the inner me. I would have perhaps liked something a little more gaudy, but you can’t have everything. Amid the rows of bicycles, motorbikes, cars, buses, racing cars, fire engines and armoured cars that grace Coventry Transport Museum, I found this little gem. Forget the recent
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AS I stood looking out at the audience for Martin House’s special An Audience With Gareth Southgate lunch, I told them that two things struck me. Firstly I observed that the room at Bowcliffe Hall near Bramham was a who’s who of some of the most successful entrepreneurs, wealth creators and decision makers in Leeds
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HAVE I been on holiday recently? I must have, because I definitely remember relaxing on a sun lounger in Marrakesh in temperatures so high that I was forced to find solace in the shade with a bottle of chilled Morrocan gris wine. Despite the name, it isn’t a grey coloured wine, it is a very
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A MAGNET for London’s arts and media elite, The Groucho Club is expanding. After almost 40 years on Dean Street in Soho, where has the club finally decided to open its second base? Wakefield. Yes Wakefield. Now I’ve got nothing against the city, it’s got a very good TK Maxx. But it doesn’t sound like
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READ all about it. Or not, as the case may be. Reports this week suggested that the government plans to ban foreign governments from owning British newspapers and magazines. The news emerged after a frenzied few months of debate about the merits of allowing an Abu Dhabi-led takeover of the Daily and Sunday Telegraph and
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DO you want a bet? I’m not into motor racing and I’m not much of a gambler, but I’ll put a big bet down on one thing. Yesterday Red Bull team boss Christian Horner said it is “time to draw a line under” the controversy over accusations about his behaviour towards a female employee. You
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HOW the hell did that happen? You get some of the most successful business people from not just Yorkshire but the UK together in a room – and the conversation turns to Morris dancing. Eh, I suppose that’s my fault. A member of the campaign board at Martin House children’s hospice alongside former Town Centre
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