- PM accepts White House invitation
- PM picks up shopping on way home
- Rhyming plea over library closures
- British passenger 'fell from liner'
- 1,000 people expected in marches
- Towns regeneration contest launched
- Met and FBI call 'taped by hackers'
- New cancer cases 'up 30% by 2030'
- Widespread snow looms for weekend
- I feel fantastic, says Robin Gibb
- Paedophile jailed over porn seizure
- Three die in Legionnaires' outbreak
- John Terry loses England captaincy
- Redknapp has 'back to the wall'
- No pub assault charge for Downing
- Ex-PCSO jailed for rape of girl, 12
- Facebook stalker guilty of murder
- 21 years for street killer husband
- BT in 'ultra-fast' broadband pledge
- Disruption as freight train derails
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NOMINATIONS have opened for this year’s Yorkshire Rising Star Awards.
It’s the business for women
A YORKSHIRE organisation determined to help more women achieve top business jobs has vowed to expand nationally.
Banks need to lend, says TUC
BANK lending to firms outside the finance and real estate sectors must more than double, claims a new TUC report.
Customer numbers boost proves a Christmas joy
CASINO Alea in Leeds saw a 51 per cent increase in footfall in December, the company says.
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AstraZeneca: Drugs firm cits another 7,300 jobs
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Leeds United gives unemployed teenagers career boost
Unemployed school leavers are getting the chance to kickstart a career in the sports industry with the help of Leeds United.
Leeds’s £800 million benefits bill
More than £800m a year in benefits is being paid out in Leeds.
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McDonald’s serves up 2,500 new jobs
Fast food giant McDonald’s will create at least 2,500 new UK jobs this year, it announced today.
1,400 jobs go in Bonmarché deal
WORKERS’ jobs at value fashion chain Bonmarché are under threat after the business was bought from administrators by Sun European Partners.
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Mediate to solve any disputes, firms told
MEDIATION could be the solution to solve work disputes, employers have been told.
Long-established firm’s sales boom
ONE of Yorkshire’s oldest firms, Job Earnshaw and Bros of Wakefield, saw a year-on-year increase in retail sales of 22 per cent.
Only way is ethics
BARRISTER practice Park Court Chambers in Leeds has switched its corporate banking to The Co-operative Bank due to its ethical business policy.
Ambition key to success
A SENIOR figure from computer giant IBM has urged Yorkshire business people to be ‘masters of the game’.
Design agency gives company a new identity
ESTATE agency Preston Baker, which has an office in Leeds, has been given a new brand identity, thanks to a York-based design company.
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