GIVEN that the last time I went to a Test Match I saw one wicket fall all day, I hoped I might see a few batsmen out at Headingley last Friday. On top of watching Jonny Bairstow achieve an emotional 140 we saw 15 wickets tumble during the day as England were bowled out and […]
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WHAT do you get if you put multi gold medal winning decathlete Daley Thompson, rugby league great Kevin Sinfield, World Cup winning captain Bobby Moore and pioneering Victorian mountaineer Edward Whymper into a hot air balloon together? Well, a great charity night out for one, and secondly a fiercely competitive debate as the advocates of
SO there I was at a rugby club beer festival talking high finance, high fashion and in high spirits. I’m really warming to the idea of business development opportunities at beer festivals, but I think I need to go to a few more before I’m completely sure. Historic Leeds rugby club Leodiensian RUFC held their
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LEICESTER City’s unlikely Premier League success has highlighted that sporting glory is not just confined to football in that East Midlands city. Leicester Tigers have been a force at the top of rugby union for many years, the city’s basketball team have won the English division and local boy Mark Selby was crowned World Snooker
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PERHAPS it was the glorious bright Spring morning. Perhaps it was the lure of a speaker who has been lauded as one of our great Parliamentary orators. A capacity audience of 100 invited guests from the Yorkshire business community packed the offices of law firm Irwin Mitchell last Friday right in the heart of the
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THERE is always a real buzz and no shortage of energy when you get entrepreneurs together. That was certainly the case this week when I compered an event for KPMG, Irwin Mitchell, Business Growth Fund (BGF) and the London Stock Exchange. Focusing on the funding opportunities available for companies to accelerate their growth, it brought
The Yorkshire Asset Based Lending Dinner attracted 500 people to New Dock Hall in Leeds last night for an event that has already become something of an institution in the Yorkshire business community in just five years. I pointed out to the audience that I hadn’t seen a gathering of that much talent from the
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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
