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INTERESTING news this week that financial services firm EY is preparing to remove academic qualifications from its entry criteria for job candidates. The move, which will apply from next year onwards, follows an 18 month analysis of entry requirements by the Big Four accountancy firm. From 2016 it will no longer require candidates to have […]

YORKSHIRE doesn’t appear to be doing well on the hotel front at present. Just when you can start counting cranes again on the skyline of the region’s cities – a sure sign of a confident economy – then a few high profile hotel developments have gone pear-shaped. To be honest, you didn’t need to be

AFTER an interesting, educational and enjoyable meeting of The Alternative Board, chaired by Martin Allison, this week, I made the trip across the Pennines to the launch of a new gin. Someone in our board meeting misheard me and thought I was off to the opening of a new gym. They clearly don’t know me

I CAN tell I’m getting to know the Great Yorkshire Show: I didn’t need to use a map to navigate my entire way around this vast event this week. The annual agricultural jamboree enjoyed fantastic weather and great attendances over its three days and is now so much more than a place where farmers show

IT must be my retro fascination with music hall acts and variety performers that attracts me to the world of working mens’ clubs. As a student in Huddersfield I was a member of a local club in Moldgreen, making weekly trips to see a range of ‘turns’. One I remember, was called Rocky Rhodes and

THE upside to hosting an event is that you stay sober enough to remember what people said. It was always my achilles heel as a journalist that I’d pick up the best stories or gossip when attending a dinner or while out for a drink with business people and then not remember it the next

THEY used to say that you know you are getting older when policemen start looking younger. My measure of the ageing process was always slightly different. Going into business journalism in my late 20s, everyone I met and interviewed seemed much older than me. I don’t know whether that gave me too much of a

WHAT makes a city attractive? A vibrant economy, varied retailers, thriving arts scene, great public spaces. We all have our favourites cities around the world and we have our individual reasons for choosing them. But in the majority of cases it is because those cities combine the attractions above – along with lots more –