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Millions Of UK Pets Are Facing Long-Term Loneliness

Features, Wagging Tales
Recent findings from the PDSA Animal Wellbeing (PAW) Report revealed that over two million dogs are frequently left alone for five hours or more on a typical weekday. Loneliness and boredom in dogs can lead to frustration and destructive behaviour. PDSA vet, Rebecca Ashman, comments: “Ideally, dogs shouldn’t be left…

Crack Down On Backstreet Puppy Breeders

Features, Wagging Tales
Tougher dog breeding licensing rules to better protect thousands of puppies are to be introduced as part of a swathe of reforms to safeguard the welfare of Britain’s pets, Environment Secretary Andrea Leadsom announced recently. The plans to tighten up laws around selling pets and breeding dogs will make it…

‘Kiss Me, Kate’

Entertainment, What's On
Gilbert and Sullivan operettas are known especially for their perfect English diction, vocabulary and turn-of-phrase and Leeds Gilbert and Sullivan Society has built up an enviable reputation for performing these works for over 100 years. However, perhaps surprisingly, Leeds G&S Society is taking on a different challenge – that of…

Funding For Wharfedale Male Voice Choir

Entertainment, Music Reviews
Having entertained the communities of Wharfedale for more than thirty years the Wharfedale Male Voice Choir were in much need of a new keyboard that could provide accompaniment for the choir’s singing and pleasure for their audiences. In recent times it has not always been possible to rely on the…

MARCH 2017

Features, Music Notes With Stuart Glossop
Leeds Arena saw two sold out shows by artists at different ends of the spectrum in February when Green Day and Drake came to Leeds in the space of a week. However, both may have been usurped by a gig that took place at a smaller venue just up the…

Delicious Easter Eggs & Treats

Features, Selina our junior reporter
−−− BY SELINA / JUNIOR REPORTER −−− Hello readers and welcome to my monthly article. This month I am writing an ‘eggcellent’ review for the run up to Easter! I had the very difficult job of reviewing Easter Eggs and treats, but have managed to come up with some ‘cracking’…

YORKSHIRE TALENTED VICTORIAN CARTOONIST

Features, In Bygone Years
The American artist James Whistler once said: “Black and white art can be summed up in two words – Phil May.” He was talking about the renowned black and white cartoonist of the Victorian period who became ‘Punch’ magazine’s most celebrated artist by sketching local people and scenes in his…

Vikings In York

Features, Footprints In The Sands Of Time
Following on from my column last month where I wrote about this year’s Jorvik Viking Festival, I was lucky enough to attend the finale which closed the week of events in spectacular fashion. The story of the finale was told in a combination of theatrical drama, music and battle re-enactment…

LOCAL NATURE RESERVE SPRING CLEAN

Local News
−−−−− BY LINZI DAVIES −−−−− Thanks to the hard work and dedication of the Wyke Beck Valley Friends Association, 5 nature reserves in east Leeds are being kept clean and tidy for people to use and enjoy, particularly as the clocks go forward this month and the days become longer…
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