Asda to donate half a million meals to families to combat holiday hunger
In a bid to tackle ‘holiday hunger’, the Leeds-based chain will utilise its Fight Hunger partnership with food redistribution charity FareShare to enable vulnerable families to access free meals over the holiday period, which might otherwise have gone to waste.
Five best cordless vacuum cleaners 2021 : great handheld vacuums from Shark, Vax, Dyson
Lighter, more transportable, and quieter, cordless vacuum cleaners can turn an arduous task into one of comparative ease. We’ve tested and found the best that are available in 2021
Best folding bikes 2021: brilliant bikes for commuting, road use, and easy storage, from Brompton, Bickerton and Tern
Whether you live in a city or the country, a folding bike is a brilliant mode of transport that is both practical and very easy to store.
Huddersfield software firm Adventoris secures £200,000 loan to help create 17 new jobs
Huddersfield-based Adventoris has secured funding from NPIF – Mercia Debt Finance, which is managed by Mercia and is part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund.
How the Dreadnought submarine programme is supporting 2,500 jobs in Yorkshire
The Dreadnought class boats will be the Royal Navy’s biggest and most technically advanced submarines when they begin to enter service from the early 2030s.
Meet the Halifax bookbinder helping to keep his craft alive
“When I was 16 I really wanted to go to art college,” he says. “I had a bit of flair for art but my parents couldn’t afford to send me to art school so it was more a question of going out to find work.” Which is exactly what he did, spending six years as an apprentice at Edward Mortimer’s, a bookbinder in Halifax. “It was the closest thing I could find to being creative,” says Stephen.
Upland landowners in North US who save cities and towns downstream from flooding could get compensation
North Yorkshire and City of York councils will get £1m a year between 2021 and 2027 from the fund, which seeks to develop and test new approaches to tackling mainland flooding and coastal erosion.
Skipton High Street sees near 300 per cent increase in football, as tourism chief prepares for 'battle' when restrictions are lifted
A predicted multi-billion pound boom in the domestic tourism sector has been predicted during the coming months as holiday-makers are forced to look towards vacations in the UK rather than heading abroad due to ongoing restrictions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Ripon business park speculates on new unit
Its business park there is fully let, so because there is high demand for smaller industrial premises, the company is speculatively building a 4,000 square foot unit with dedicated concrete yard.
Covid passports: how vaccine certificates could work as UK government plans pilot tests in England
A domestic Covid passport which indicates a person’s vaccination status or a negative coronavirus test “will be useful for us as we go forward”, the Prime Minister has suggested.
