Wednesday 9th November 2011
by Steve Irwin, Trading Manager at Portland FPP
I live, breathe and love (in an all too geeky way) all things related to the price of fuel.
I have listened and scowled at politicians who offer at best a misguided and at worst a misleading view of why fuel prices are high and what can and can’t be done to rein in the rising cost of fuel. I have seen protests come and go, noble in their inte...
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Sunday 28th August 2011
by Rob Wilmot, ex-CTO of Freeserve
A few evenings ago I helped unload a 747. We’ll come back to this.
I consider myself a lucky man. After exiting Freeserve, once the trade sale was done, I was suddenly given the luxury of choice. And I made what some people think was a rather odd one, I moved back to Doncaster, to the town where I was born. My rationale was very clear to me; ...
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Sunday 28th August 2011
by Ian Bowden, Art Director of Rockstar Games
Look…
…I sat, in the West Yorkshire Playhouse’s darkened Courtyard theatre watching 6 Degrees Below the Horizon (Imitating the Dog theatre company, part of the Transform festival) when I was struck by something I thought rather profound. It wasn’t anything to do with the innovative blend of (sometimes quite explicitly homoerotic) cinema and l...
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Sunday 28th August 2011
by Gary Verity, Chief Exec of Welcome to Yorkshire
The summer season got underway with a bumper crop of days off as Easter rolled into a Royal Wedding and to top it all we enjoyed some unseasonably hot weather. The end result? Potentially the best start to the tourist season in recent memory, which is great news for the thousands of small and medium sized businesses across Yorkshire that rely o...
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Tuesday 9th August 2011
by Dean Hoyle, Chairman of HTFC
I’ve never really been a fan of networking events. I realise they have a purpose, but I’ve always found in the past that they are full of people trying to sell products – whereas nobody is looking to buy! However, I agreed to get involved with the Yorkshire Mafia Conference this year because I believe it offered something different – and I’m de...
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