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IT is never a good thing when you receive an email from a company which begins with the words: “We’ve been sent your blog by our solicitors”. Deep intake of breath. Having avoided the threat of litigation from Ken Bates when he was chairman of Leeds United, I don’t really want to start answering to […]

NEVER before have so many talented individuals who have given so much been gathered together to show off the precious metal they had earned in pursuit of greatness. And that was just the mayors present. Yorkshire’s Rio Heroes homecoming parade through the streets of Leeds on Wednesday evening and the civic reception which followed it

TRADE secretary Liam Fox appears to have got back in his box following his comments about British business being fat, lazy and too keen to play golf on a Friday afternoon. The comments were pretty idiotic and ill-thought out. For a man facing the Himalayan task of helping negotiate Britain’s trade position post Brexit, he

THEY’VE been predicting the demise of cinemas for decades. But they are undergoing a renaissance, led in no small part by “boutique” cinema chain Everyman. This independent business opened its 19th cinema in Harrogate last week. Having visited the Everyman in Leeds’ Trinity shopping centre, what I like about their approach is the individuality in

I DEFINITELY need to get out more. Why, you ask? Well I’ve just had one of the best days out of my life…in Hull. Yes Hull. I suppose I’ve only got myself to blame. Invited to a lunch a few months ago at the offices of Chameleon Business Interiors overlooking the choppy Humber Estuary, I

FAREWELL then Gene Wilder. I hadn’t realised until I listened and watched the radio and TV reports on the death of the US comic actor at the age of 83, quite how many great films he had appeared in. I also didn’t realise he was that age. Having suffered from Alzheimer’s in later life, he

THERE’S been a worrying feeling of autumn in the air for the last few mornings. So if there is one place to go in an attempt to celebrate summer and stave off a change of season, then it’s York Races. The annual Welcome to Yorkshire Ebor Festival is a four-day extravaganza that brings together some

IT wasn’t very long ago that I was bemoaning the lack of eccentrics in modern society. Then I was introduced to a genuine, cast iron, rock solid, 24 carat one. At 3 o’clock tomorrow afternoon Ed Wood will be watching the kick-off of Oldham against Walsall in Division One. Nothing unusual in that, hundreds of

YOU know it’s been a quiet week when the highlight is being followed on Instagram by a woman in her underwear in her profile picture. Actually, it’s not been that quiet, but that particular episode did add a rare frisson of excitement during a working week where everyone else appears to be on holiday. When