West Yorkshire band, Flat Cap Brass has launched a Christmas appeal, producing their own version of the Christmas classic ‘Fairytale of New York’ to raise funds for West Yorkshire based homelessness charity Simon on the Streets. A music video accompanying the single shows scenes from the streets around West Yorkshire with the charity’s outreach workers,Read more

A pop-up roller-skating shop is celebrating a year of popping up in Leeds’s Corn Exchange. Roller Girl Gang, founded by British Roller Sports Federation qualified instructors, Mel Blackwood and Len Laird, started the business to ensure they could continue skating around their busy jobs as primary school teachers. Beginning by forming skating classes across Leeds,Read more

In the spirit of giving back at Christmas, the region’s largest independent vehicle-hire firm is supplying two Yorkshire-based hospices with free transportation to support their Christmas fund-raising for the third year running. But this year with a twist. Arrow Self Drive will provide three different sized vehicles to Wakefield Hospice and two to Forget MeRead more

A homelessness charity has commenced celebrations of 20 years of supporting entrenched rough sleepers across West Yorkshire with a number of events throughout its birthday month. Simon on the Streets was formed in 1999 to support those sleeping rough or at risk of rough sleeping in Leeds, Bradford and Kirklees. The charity will celebrate itsRead more

Europe’s only manufacturer of classic jukeboxes, Sound Leisure, has won a prestigious regional award as Yorkshire Exporter of the Year. The Leeds-based company scooped the Yorkshire Post Excellence in Business Award at an awards ceremony held on Wednesday 6th November at Headingley’s Emerald Stadium. Sound Leisure, a family-run firm has been manufacturing jukeboxes as wellRead more