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9:55am Tuesday 1st July 2008
IT IS clear when you visit Denise Howard that even though the credit crunch is hitting estate agencies hard, there are no frowns at Smilesallround.
10:52am Tuesday 3rd June 2008
IAN WOTTON, managing director of the massively- expanding Redfern Travel in Marsden Park, Clifton Moor, really is a man of strange contrasts.
9:47am Tuesday 6th May 2008
LIQUID concrete may flow in the veins of Rob Adams, managing director of Tadcaster-based Birse Civils, but there is nothing rockhard about his style of management.
11:19am Tuesday 1st April 2008
IT IS hardly surprising that Tony Humphreys, managing director of Harrogate-based digital marketing agency, Magnitude, has brought his company to the pinnacle of its sector.
12:44pm Tuesday 4th March 2008
HAVING recovered from his major operation, Wayne Topley, the new 35-year-old genial general manager of the Royal York Hotel, can't resist a quip: "I know what I want from my 160 staff - a kidney."
11:50am Tuesday 8th January 2008
WHILE York is gearing itself up for another sea-change in its tourism strategy, it is worth remembering the man who successfully steered the city through choppy tourism waters.
2:36pm Tuesday 4th December 2007
If Julia Judson-Smith arrives fresh-faced for work as managing partner of York accountancy firm UHY Calvert Smith, then it's hardly surprising
10:57am Tuesday 6th November 2007
As joint chief executive of Hunters, one of the most successful York-based estate agents, Kevin Hollinrake could be forgiven just lately if he is having sleepless nights.
11:03am Tuesday 2nd October 2007
NO ONE in Yorkshire can have an office in a more illustrious setting than Colonel James Finlay OBE.
11:50am Tuesday 4th September 2007
You would have thought that after all that hectic planning and activity, completion of his latest project would entitle Saleem Akhtar to carve out time to relax at his base in Flaxton, near York, but an empire-builder's work is never done.
12:12pm Tuesday 7th August 2007
Catherine Paver, always stylishly dressed, is an entrepreneur from head to toe, but in her world it is from heel to toe that counts.
Updated 9:58pm Saturday 5th July 2008
Hundreds of mementoes that give a unique below stairs insight into the Royal household went under the hammer and fetched hundreds of thousands of pounds.
LAST YEAR it was a shark off the Cornwall coast that saw The Sun through the silly season; this year it’s little green men in flying saucers over Shropshire. Both stories, of course, are utter tosh.
IT’S an institution which has saved lives – and provided many people with a new lease of life.
IT was a bit of an eye-opener to say the least. The highlight of a friend’s stag party in Paris last weekend saw a group of hardened racegoers, including your correspondent, take a trip to the Hippodrome de Saint-Cloud in the west of the city.
BBC Radio York celebrates its 25th birthday today. Reporter NADIA JEFFERSON-BROWN looks back at the station’s history.
RACING’S equivalent of the Champions League has been given the thumbs-up by York Racecourse chief executive William Derby.
There were some brilliant matches on local stillwaters at the weekend with 100lb bags needed to make the top of the prize list.
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