Posts by yorkshire reporter

CELEBRATING INTERNATIONAL HOMEBIRTH DAY

Health, Healthcare
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has one of the UK’s busiest maternity units with around 10,000 babies born each year. In 2018, 205 babies were born at home and the city’s homebirth team has ambitions to increase that to over 300 this year. So far this year 57 babies have…

Bradford Doctor Receives International Award

Health, Science
A doctor from Bradford Teaching Hospitals has received a prestigious international award for his work with patients who suffer from chronic pain. Consultant Anesthetist, Dr Sanjeeva Gupta, who works at the Bradford Royal Infirmary and St Luke’s Hospital, was presented with the accolade for his contribution to the field of…

ARC VECTOR – THE REVOLUTION IS COMING

Motoring
The Arc Vector, the world’s most advanced electric motorcycle, is right on schedule and its breathtaking innovations are being eagerly refined. Announced at last November’s EICMA show in Milan, the £90,000 neo-café racer will enter full production at the end of 2020 with 399 units to be built to order…

DODGY DEALS ON WHEELS

Motoring
West Yorkshire Trading Standards Service is keen to warn consumers about the importance of doing essential research before buying a used car. The warning follows eight days of action earlier this year when officers checked 115 vehicles being offered for sale by 13 different businesses in West Yorkshire. The action…

The ‘One Stop Shop’ for Summer!

This month we launch our new Foreign Exchange department at our York and Pontefract branches. Seacroft, Shipley and Batley are already booming FX stores and it would seem that despite the uncertainty with the BREXIT decision and the political environment it doesn’t seem to have put us Brits off going…

PILOT PROJECT WILL PIECE TOGETHER LEEDS WHALE’S TRAGIC TALE

The skeleton of a majestic whale cruelly killed by fishermen 152 years ago will be reconstructed for a new display highlighting the plight of our planet’s oceans. Leeds Museums and Galleries’ long-finned pilot whale is being painstakingly pieced together over the next few months before it is hung from the…
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