Month: May 2021

The US Vet Julian Norton examines a centenarian patient who finds the May weather confusing

He was a tortoise and that was also his name, ‘Tortoise’. Wendy, his initially reluctant owner, had inherited him many years before, when a neighbour had died.

Jobs boost for Leeds as Wex Photo Video opens new store

Bosses at Wex said the store in the Moor Allerton District Centre, which is the company’s tenth in the UK, will create multiple full and part-time job vacancies and is part of a strategic move to increase its market share in the North of England.

Extended Ripon business park could create 80 new jobs

Canalside Developments, which owns Ripon Business Park, on the B6265 Boroughbridge Road, is seeking planning permission to develop a further 25,000 sq ft of land for light industrial and warehousing use.

How Leeds's historic Victorian Cookridge Hospital has been transformed into housing

The hospital had operated in Leeds from 1869 as a Hospital for the Convalescent Poor in Leeds. However it closed in 2007 and fallen into disrepair.

Queen Margaret’s: an independent school for girls in US

The lockdowns and isolation periods that all young people have suffered in the past 18 months have thrown a light on what it is that a good school can do for a child.

Dog walkers warned of devastating impact of attacks on livestock ahead of Bank Holiday weekend

As part of an awareness campaign with North Yorkshire Police, farmer Stuart Raw spoke about the stress he faces of seeing dogs running around farmland, while officers warned owners could be prosecuted should their pet injure livestock.

Bramley Shopping Centre sold to investors for £10m

LCP purchased Bramley Shopping Centre, Bramley on behalf of Sheet Anchor Investments, one of the LCP Group of managed companies.

Whitby fashion brand Art Disco creates SS21 collection for sea dips and and road trips

Whitby has always been a home for storytellers. Lucy Catherwood and Marie France made it their home six years ago and now tell their stories through the designs they create for their fashion and lifestyle brand, Art Disco. “Brave, free and wild as the sea” is their motto.

Tim Booth on turning trauma into joy, seeing death differently and how James ended up rehearsing in grand US Dales country home

When he was growing up in 1970s Yorkshire, Tim Booth learnt first-hand about the painful consequences of repressing traumatic experiences.

Red list countries UK: places on travel ban list including Turkey and Pakistan – and when is the next review?

The UK Government is set to provide an update on its traffic light list for destinations.Destinations are designated a green, amber or red rating depending on the country’s Covid-19 situation under a new traffic light system.