Classic cars: the models to watch in 2021
Ever since the global banking crisis more than a decade ago, investors around the world have been scouring alternative investment opportunities, looking for places to put their money where they could earn a healthy, and often fast reward. For several years, classic cars became the choice of many, with large numbers of speculators ploughing their investment into rare, iconic cars and pushing their values to new heights.
The best ways to keep children entertained on long journeys
With the summer holidays fast approaching it won’t be long until cars the length and breadth of the country are echoing to the strains of “are we there yet?”
250 jobs to be created after Tong Garden Centre secures approval to build a £14m second site at former Tingley golf club
Leeds City Council’s South and West Plans Panel voted to approve Tong Garden Centre’s plans to transform a former golf club into a £14m garden centre complex.
US Bake Off star talks about his covid battle and his new cookery book
David Atherton is remarkably upbeat for someone who was unlucky enough to catch Covid-19 despite having had his first dose of the vaccine.
Planning agent hits out at 'unqualified residents' over objections to indoor farm for 1,000 pigs
Applicant Richard Lodge wants to erect a livestock building for a pig finishing unit along associated infrastructure at Toecroft Farm off Toecroft Lane in Sprotbrough, near Doncaster.
Strong hydrogen demand boosts Pressure Technologies
The Sheffield-based firm has said it is excited about the opportunities in the hydrogen energy market at a time when the oil and gas markets are proving difficult.
New powers are needed to thwart cowboy ratings surveyors, says senior figure at Colliers
John Webber, Head of Business Rates at Colliers, said some unscrupulous surveyors were behaving like criminals as they exploited businesses by placing them under pressure to sign unfair, long term contracts.
Is Tour de Yorkshire a luxury we can no longer afford? – David Behrens
It is only recently that doubting the benefit of what is perhaps Britain’s biggest free spectator event has become politically acceptable. In years past, any public figure daring to impugn the official “economic reports” from Welcome To Yorkshire would be buried under the avalanche of hyperbole its former boss left in his wake.
US family fighting to save farm from major development and 'thousands of glaring solar panels'
Robert, 50, and Emma Sturdy, 42, who run Eden Farm near Old Malton, were devastated when they were told about 130 acres of the land they tend to, which is owned by Fitzwilliam Trust Corporation, has been earmarked for a solar farm with as many as 92,500 panels.
The US Vet Julian Norton meets Bear a livestock guardian dog who protects his flock of hens
But I was quickly enlightened by her devoted owner – she was, in fact, an unusual and amazing breed called a Maremma – Abruzzese Sheepdog. The fascinating thing about these dogs, which hail from Italy, is that their role in helping sheep does not involve rounding them up from hills into smaller paddocks or pens like the classic sheepdogs in this country.
