Fashion and Lifestyle Pudsey’s plant-powered celebration happening this May Pudsey Vegan Festival from Vegan Events UK is coming to Pudsey Civic Hall on Saturday 3rd May. There will be over 50 fantastic stalls, exciting and inspirational talks and demos running throughout the day from 10.30am to 4.30pm. So if you are looking for inspiration or information on By The Editor • 2 min read
Health & Wellbeing New Boots Opticians with innovative eye scan technology opens in Trinity Leeds A new stand-alone Boots Opticians store has opened in Trinity Leeds offering optomap® as part of its Ultimate Eye Test, which could help to detect signs of serious health conditions including diabetes and hypertension. The store, which is located on the ground floor of Trinity Leeds, provides an inspiring and By The Editor • 2 min read
Health & Wellbeing The hidden threat to your bones (and brain) The healthiest people tend to be the ones who adopt simple positive lifestyle habits throughout their day - not the ones who do the gruelling workouts and punish their bodies. So with that in mind I want to share with you something that you might like to take on board. By The Editor • 2 min read
Health & Wellbeing Beverley Building Society selects Hull and East Yorkshire Mind as its Charity of the Year Beverley Building Society, based in Beverley’s Saturday Market, has been part of the fabric of Beverley since it was established in 1866. Since that time, it has continued to maintain its founding values of providing straightforward savings and mortgage products, underpinned by outstanding customer service, whilst giving back to By The Editor • 2 min read
Health & Wellbeing Through My Eyes’ maternity photo exhibition opens in Leeds A new photography exhibition celebrating diversity and individuality in maternity has opened at Thackray Museum of Medicine, in collaboration with the maternity service at Leeds Teaching Hospitals (LTHT) and Lens Lab Project, a non-profit arts organisation who are based locally in Burmantofts. The photos were taken at Maternal Journal art By The Editor • 3 min read
Health & Wellbeing Scholarship for mental health nurse to address suicide in farming A mental health nurse hopes to offer helpful insights into what more can be done to prevent suicides in British agriculture by embarking on an international study tour, sponsored by the Yorkshire Agricultural Society. Lucia Slack has been awarded a prestigious Nuffield Farming Scholarship to study ‘Addressing Suicide in Agriculture: By The Editor • 2 min read
Health & Wellbeing Change the way you clean your home in 2025 People are now more conscious of the products that make it into their home – in terms of what they put into their body, on their skin AND what they clean their home with. The approach to cleaning our homes and businesses has changed hugely over the past couple of years. By The Editor • 2 min read
Health & Wellbeing MP Katie White opens the £12m elective care Hub at Wharfedale Hospital The new £12million Elective Care Unit at Wharfedale Hospital – which reduces the time patients wait for surgery and provides protected space for planned operations to take place – has been officially opened by Katie White, MP for North West Leeds. Katie joined Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust’s Chair Dame Linda By The Editor • 3 min read
Health & Wellbeing HelloHope partners with Miss Yorkshire to run Mindful Malta retreat Harrogate’s Chloe McEwen, the reigning ‘Miss Yorkshire’ has partnered with HelloHope, a mental health organisation to host a mindful retreat. The 7-day ‘Hello Mindful Malta’ retreat will take place from the 2nd-9th May in a luxury 5-star villa in Malta run by Chloe McEwen and HelloHope’s founder and By The Editor • 2 min read
Health & Wellbeing Newborn babies tested for over 200 genetic conditions Hundreds of babies have begun to be tested for over 200 rare genetic conditions as part of a world-leading study that has now launched at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTHT). The pioneering study aims to identify conditions such as Metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD) in babies sooner, and could enable hundreds By The Editor • 4 min read
Health & Wellbeing Local Opticians and Audiologists earns sustainability certification Bayfields Opticians and Audiologists has achieved a prestigious sustainability certification after successfully offsetting its carbon emissions across its audiology services at seven of its practices throughout Yorkshire. Earlier this year, Bayfields was awarded the certification for its optical offering, and now it has extended its sustainability efforts to include its By The Editor • 2 min read
Health & Wellbeing Can you help the Outward Bound Trust with team Blossom? Team Blossom is walking 22 miles raising funds for The Outward Bound Trust to empower young women from West Yorkshire. By The Editor • 1 min read
