Month: March 2021

Jobs boost for Leeds as engineers secure work on Yorkshire schemes

RWO, which opened for business in 2019 in Leeds providing a range of civil and structural engineering services, has secured an additional 1,000 sq. ft. of space at its city centre Park Place site, more than doubling current office capacity.

As fashion shops reopen on Monday, John Lewis Leeds brings back fitting rooms and Kurt Geiger opens two new Victoria Quarter stores

When John Lewis Leeds reopens its doors at the Victoria Gate shopping centre on Monday, it will offer a first chance for shoppers to see up close, feel first-hand and try on the collections it has created for SS21 – the ranges it hopes will provide the UK’s post-lockdown looks of summer.

BBC's Your Garden Made Perfect looking for US people who want to transform their outdoor space

Remarkable TV, which creates the show, has put out a casting call for any Yorkshire folk who have an outdoor area they are looking to transform.

The Shambles, US Sculpture Park, Eureka and Sheffield Botanical Gardens named as attractions people most want to visit when lockdown ends

Historic York street The Shambles placed second behind the Tate Modern in London in the survey commissioned by Uber.

Hundreds of jobs could be created in Leeds after funding secured for Globe Point development

Globe Point, which is the first part of the wider Temple regeneration scheme, will provide accommodation for around 350 to 400 workers.

Welcome to Yorkshire Y21 conference – Channel 4 director Sinead Rocks says more London-based staff are wanting to move to Yorkshire since the pandemic

Sinead Rocks, who joined Channel Four from the BBC in 2019 and has moved to the region herself with her partner and baby, told Welcome to Yorkshire’s annual conference that employees were ‘reassessing’ their work-life balance since the pandemic began and are now more open transferring their roles to the broadcaster’s Leeds office, which opened last year.

Best men’s waterproof hiking jackets UK 2021: beat the rain with these jackets, from Rab, Columbia, Berghaus

It doesn’t matter if you’re not planning on hitting a summit, this year, we could all benefit from a great waterproof jacket to keep us dry when we venture outdoors. 

Hall family sell Howden's California Gardens, one of Britain's oldest garden centres, for £1.5m

California Gardens based at Howden, near Goole, has been sold for £1.5m to two Yorkshire businessmen who say they plan to invest over £1m in a new restaurant and other upgrades to the four-acre site.

Kay Mellor on The Syndicate, filming during the pandemic and her passion for US

“I was looking at the yachts and was like: ‘Who on God’s earth owns something like that?’ And somebody said: ‘Christina Onassis – that’s whose yacht it is’. I remember that moment.

Why the payment holiday from mortgage provides no break – Gareth Shaw

Gareth says…The pandemic prompted the Government, regulators and banks to take unprecedented action to support people financially. One of the most important of these measures was the offer of a mortgage payment holiday, allowing borrowers to pause their repayments for a set period if they couldn’t afford to make them. This was in addition to a moratorium on house repossessions and a whole host of other support measures.