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 The leader of Leeds City Council has issued a rallying cry to business leaders to help make Leeds the number one city in the north and make Manchester look across the Pennines with envy. Speaking to Insider, Councillor Keith Wakefield has reiterated his claim that Leeds is the dominant engine in Yorkshire and said the city can become the centre of the north in ten years. READ MORE...
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Headingley consultancy WYG is to raise £30m as part of a capital restructuring, it announced today (16 June). WYG said had also cut its workforce by more than 50 per cent as its current level of debt is "unsustainable". Read More...
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Barnsley-born Harry Hill, the founder of estate agency chain Countrywide and property website Rightmove, has gone back to market with the flotation of his latest venture In-Deed Online. Read More...
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A Barnsley takeaway owner is opening a new fish and chip restaurant in the town backed by a funding package from the Royal Bank of Scotland. Read More...
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Business
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Premier Farnell has posted a growth in profit and revenue for the first quarter of the financial year ending 29 January 2011. Read More...
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ImJack, the digital educational business in Leeds, has wound up its trading subsidiary ImJack Secure Communications and delisted from AIM. Read More...
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A team at Squire Sanders Hammonds in Leeds has secured a contract to advise North East baker Greggs on its employment work. Read More...
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Property
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Scarborough Business Park has been selected by the York and North Yorkshire local enterprise partnership as the location for its enterprise zone bid to government. Read More...
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Consumer electronics retailer Best Buy is weighing up a dramatic exit from its 11 UK "big box" stores after its UK division posted losses of £62m, it has been reported. Read More...
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The Yorkshire office of regeneration specialist St Modwen has signed a £20m deal with engineering giant Siemens to build a 135,000 sq ft gas turbine facility in Lincoln. Read More...
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