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FOR the first time in years I went to a pantomime at Christmas. No I’m not going to say it. OK I will. Oh yes I did. Sleeping Beauty at the Woodville Theatre in Gravesend. A host of theatrical greats were in the cast. Well, Linda Lusardi and 90s girl group Cleopatra (Comin’ Atcha!). The […]

WHEN I started working at the Yorkshire Post one of the first contacts I made was a larger than life public relations man called Andy Green. A West Ham fan, when Andy spoke his mind moved so quickly and he knew so much that words seemed to just tumble from his mouth. As Eric Morecambe

WELCOME to Yorkshire held its latest dinner for its Y30 corporate members in the wonderful surroundings of the Swinton Park Estate this week. I always enjoy the venues and the company at these events, but this was even more special – given the timing and surroundings, it felt like someone had flicked a switch and

IF the Tour de Yorkshire doesn’t go past your house then the chances are that the cycle race will not be too far away. The annual event, the legacy of the county hosting the phenomenally successful Tour de France Grand Depart in 2014, will be bigger, longer and more challenging than ever when it takes

IF you are anything like me you’ll have been trying to avoid Christmas for the past month. Much to the annoyance of retailers, who now switch to festive sales mode as soon as Halloween has gone. While a near two month window of opportunity to push their goods is great for shops, it does leave

A TWEET earlier this week from my former colleague Ian Briggs reminded me it was 10 years to the day since we launched TheBusinessDesk.com. I knew it was a decade since I took that leap into the dark from the Yorkshire Post to launch the first regional business news service in the UK but I

WITH the twin aims of researching how the economy is fairing and building up stamina for the Christmas season, I headed off to two drinks parties last night. First it was to AECOM’s annual ‘Winter Warmer’ at Crafthouse in the Trinity centre in Leeds. I didn’t know much about the business but a glance at

IN a world where news is delivered via 280-character Tweets, video clips and soundbites, David Conn is something of an oddity. He is a sports journalist who can take weeks, months or even years to produce his work. Conn started to write about the Hillsborough disaster 20 years ago and attended much of the two-year

FROM the service you get at Bridlington Tourist Information Centre to the performances at Hull Truck Theatre to the food and drink at The Pheasant Hotel in Harome and the Bay Tree pub at Stillington. The White Rose Awards are a yearly celebration of Yorkshire’s burgeoning tourism industry and my chance to note down plenty

YOU may have missed it, but there is currently a battle raging around the future direction of regional newspaper publisher Johnston Press. The group, which owns the Yorkshire Post and the Scotsman, is the second largest publisher of local newspapers in the UK. And it is valued on the stock market at less than £14m.