Posts by yorkshire reporter

CYCLING BURNS CALORIES

It is over 25 years since I started working in a bike shop. During that time I have sold well over 100,000 bikes and served many more people with accessories or repaired their bikes for them. Many of these customers have become regulars and friends who exchange stories and ideas…

Budding Pilot Flies Through Scholarship

Charity
With 15 hours of flying training safely under his belt, SAC Karl Cassar has achieved his first solo flight under the Junior Rank Pilot Scholarship Scheme (JRPSS), sponsored by the RAF Charitable Trust (RAFCT). Karl, of Leeds, is one of just 30 serving RAF Regular and Reserve Junior Ranks (JRs)…

AWARD-WINNING LEEDS BECKETT DESIGNED COMMUNITY CENTRE OFFICIALLY LAUNCHED

Local News
The innovative award-winning multi-purpose New Wortley Community Centre (NWCC), designed and built under the leadership of Leeds Beckett University’s Project Office officially opens this month. Academics, Simon Warren and Craig Stott, have led the project every step of the way since plans began in 2009, before taking it on as…

Leeds’ Dancers Give It Some Welly In Support Of The RNLI’s Mayday Campaign

Charity
Leeds’ contemporary dancers are swapping their jazz shoes, for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution’s yellow wellies to show support for Mayday, the charity’s national annual fundraising campaign which is calling out for people to ‘Do your bit, fund our kit’. Students from the Northern School of Contemporary Dance showed off…

Tesco Turns Pink In Support Of Cancer Research UK

Charity
−−−−− BY LINZI DAVIES −−−−− The bank holiday weekend of 29th and 30th April saw Tesco colleagues turn pink in support of Cancer Research UK. All staff wore pink to promote Race for Life with other events going on in store such as bake sales and bike riding. All the…

The Most Fun Filled Tournament It’s A Knockout Returns For 2017

Charity
Crazy giant suits, sumo penguins, inflatable hurdles, wet sponges and king-size quantities of foam!  Due to the incredible success and popularity, Breast Cancer Haven Yorkshire is bringing back ‘It’s a Knockout’ for a second year. The afternoon is being run by Off Limits, who are the only company with the…

SIR GARY VERITY AWARDED FRENCH NATIONAL ORDER OF MERIT

Local News
Sir Gary Verity, Chief Executive of Welcome to Yorkshire and Director of the Tour de Yorkshire has been given a top honour by the French government. The Ordre National du Mérite (National Order of Merit) is the second national Order after the Légion d’Honneur, and is awarded by the President…

Cars Seized In Hunt For Illicit Tobacco

Local Crime
As a result of complaints from members of the public and intelligence gathered, Operation Oil targeting sellers of illegal tobacco was carried out recently. In a joint operation with West Yorkshire Trading Standards, West Yorkshire Police and Wagtail UK, tobacco detection dogs, over 90,000 cigarettes and 22.55kg of hand rolling…
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