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Leeds Festival 2017

Features, Music Notes With Stuart Glossop
Put simply Leeds Festival 2017 was the best ever held at Bramham. Fans left the festival with iconic moments indelibly stamped in a collective memory that were for once not drenched in rain and mud. ■ Against The Current Muse were the first headliners for this year’s festival. Stadium rock…

CLASSICAL MALE VOICE SPECTACULAR IN ROUNDHAY

Entertainment, Music Reviews
Leeds Male Voice Choir fresh from international touring are set to perform a rare and intimate classical concert at St Edmund’s Church, Roundhay, Leeds on Saturday 30 September. The 101 year old choir have diverged from traditional repertoire and in 2017 focused on a wide variety of classical music by…

Good Old Days Autumn Season

Entertainment, What's On
West End leading lady, Marti Webb, comedy legend, Barry Cryer and 2016’s Britain’s Got Talent winner, magician Lance Corporal Richard Jones are just three of the TV and West End stars set to tread the boards in this season’s Good Old Days at the City Varieties Music Hall (CVMH). Making…

Thornborough Henges

Features, Footprints In The Sands Of Time
Last month I wrote about Druid’s Temple, which, as you will have discovered in that article, despite looking like an ancient monument is actually a Victorian folly. This month, I thought I would write about a truly ancient monument in Yorkshire – Thornborough Henges, said to be the most important…

JOSEPH ALOYSIUS HANSOM

Features, In Bygone Years
In our imagination and in film, we see a ‘Hansom Cab’ clattering along the damp,  foggy streets of Victorian London maybe carrying Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, or perhaps Jack the Ripper escaping capture from the police! This mode of transport was invented by Yorkshireman, Joseph Aloysius Hansom born in…

Gizmo Says Gizza’ Home

Features, Wagging Tales
Staff at Dogs Trust Leeds are appealing for a home for a dog that has been waiting a full year – almost half his life – for someone to fall in love with him. Gizmo became homeless a year ago after his owner could sadly no longer take care of…

Ten Year Old Lola Beats Brain Tumour And Bounces Back To School

Health, Healthcare
A young girl who’s made a fantastic recovery after being diagnosed with a brain tumour can’t wait to start secondary school this month. Back in January, ten year old Lola Daley suddenly began to suffer from a series of seizures and debilitating headaches that lasted over several months and left…

Wakefield Woman Has Big Plans After Surgery

Health, Healthcare
For many people, recovering after knee surgery means looking forward to regaining their essential mobility – to be able to walk and drive once again. However, for Karen Lovatt, that was not quite enough. She plans to participate in heart-pounding, life-affirming activities, which include kayaking down the Norwegian Fjords and…

GLC 63 S 4MATIC+ SUV & COUPÉ

Motoring
The Mercedes-AMG GLC 63 4MATIC+ is now available to order, with prices starting from £68,920 for the GLC 63 4MATIC+ SUV. The even more powerful S variant costs £75,670. As well as the SUV model, the sleek new GLC 63 4MATIC+ Coupé is also available for £71,410, and the S…
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