http://articles.mckenziesescorts.co.uk en-us info@mckenziesescorts.co.uk   Jamie Oliver-backed charitable restaurant chain The Fifteen Foundation has abandoned plans to open in Leeds. Last June, the foundation agreed a business plan to open a third UK restaurant site at the Dark Arches at Holbeck Urban Village in the city centre, but has decided not to push on with the project due to the recession. Penny Newman, chief executive of the Fifteen Foundation, said: The decision not to expand comes down to a combination of factors but no one will be surprised to hear th http://articles.mckenziesescorts.co.uk/jamie-oliver-backed-fifteen-pulls-plug-on-leeds-restaurant_100.html 03-03-2009   A developer who pioneered high rising living in Leeds, UK, is blaming the banks for its decision to go into administration. It lost £50 million of potential foreign investment because banks were not willing to match the funding. It is the first time that a well known developer has been so outspoken in terms of showing that despite public announcements to the contrary banks are simply not lending to businesses. Leeds based KW Linfoot said that its Lumiere and Manor Mills joint venture scheme http://articles.mckenziesescorts.co.uk/leeds-high-rise-pioneer-developer-goes-into-administration_99.html 03-03-2009 ITV is preparing to mothball its huge Yorkshire studios site, home to shows such as Heartbeat and The Royal, as part of its cost-cutting plans which will see hundreds of jobs cut and millions of pounds shaved off its programming budget. The commercial broadcaster, which will announce its full year results to the City on Wednesday, is struggling to tackle its onerous £2.6bn pension fund and debt position as well as increasing its dwindling operating cashflow while battling a severe advertising d http://articles.mckenziesescorts.co.uk/itv-prepares-to-mothball-yorkshire-studios-site_98.html 03-03-2009 ANXIOUS residents in a south Leeds suburb face a two-month wait to see if 200 luxury homes will be built on their doorstep. A public inquiry into the controversial plan to build upmarket properties in Rothwell and Oulton has finally finished after months of delays. A decision over the application by an Isle of Man-based company is now expected in around eight weeks. Objectors fear a victory for the company could open the floodgates for an influx of planning applications on greenfield site http://articles.mckenziesescorts.co.uk/anxious-wait-for-residents-opposed-to-new-leeds-homes_92.html 15-02-2009 LEEDS is to get a state-of-the-art train maintenance depot to help service a new fleet of eco-friendly super trains.   It will be one of five which are being built across the country to look after the new fleet which will replace ageing high-speed services on the East Coast main line. The Government says the new train building programme will help to create and preserve jobs across the UK. The new trains will be serviced, maintained and cleaned at the new Leeds depot. It has not http://articles.mckenziesescorts.co.uk/leeds-depot-plan-for-the-super-trains_91.html 15-02-2009 THEY are features at airports and high-security Government buildings, but on Friday a security arch and a police sniffer dog were at a Leeds college.   West Yorkshire Police's force operations support division spent a day at Leeds Thomas Danby as part of a new safety campaign. Officers brought along metal-detecting knife arches and hand-held detector wands to demonstrate how they stop potential weapons from being smuggled into buildings. Throughout the day, staff, students and visitors e http://articles.mckenziesescorts.co.uk/leeds-students-get-a-sniff-of-life-under-high-security_90.html 15-02-2009 FIREFIGHTERS rescued a man after finding him collapsed and not breathing on the floor of his blazing flat in Leeds. Four firefighters wearing breathing apparatus carried the man to safety and other crew members then used a defibrillator machine, heart massage and oxygen to resuscitate him. After a desperate effort he began breathing again. He was rushed to hospital where he was later said to be stable but suffering from lung damage due to smoke inhalation. Fire broke out in the gro http://articles.mckenziesescorts.co.uk/leeds-firefighters-bring-man-back-to-life-at-scene-of-flat-blaze_89.html 15-02-2009 An NHS doctor who claimed she was forced into a marriage in Bangladesh is seeking an annulment to the union in the British courts. Dr Humayra Abedin, 33, from east London, returned to the UK on Tuesday as a result of a British court order made under the new Forced Marriage Act. She was held captive by her parents for four months and in November made to marry a man without her consent. Dr Abedin is to go to the High Court on Friday to get the marriage dissolved. The High Court in London issued th http://articles.mckenziesescorts.co.uk/forced-wedding-gp-seeks-annulment_77.html 21-12-2008 Women enjoying the festive break are being warned not to use unlicensed taxis in Leeds as a means of getting home after a night out. Council officials have said the regulated taxis and private hire vehicles operating the city are clearly identified with markings. Since the introduction of the markings there have been no reports of sex assaults on passengers. Private hire taxis should be pre-booked or use cabs from ranks, officials said. Councillor Les Carter, who is responsible for community saf http://articles.mckenziesescorts.co.uk/women-warned-over-unlicensed-cabs_76.html 21-12-2008 Leeds United have sacked manager Gary McAllister after 11 months at the club. The club made the decision following a run of five successive defeats which dropped Leeds to ninth in League One, five points off the play-offs. "The decision was made to ensure that the new manager has the maximum number of games possible to move the club up the table," read a statement. McAllister, 43, who replaced Dennis Wise in January, saw his side lose 3-1 at MK Dons in his last game in charge. Leeds said they ha http://articles.mckenziesescorts.co.uk/leeds-dismiss-manager-mcallister_75.html 21-12-2008 By David MarshSOARING energy costs are plunging some of the most vulnerable households in Leeds into fuel poverty, according to a new report. The report prepared for the council's executive board reveals that fuel poverty among vulnerable people such as pensioners, the long-term ill, the disabled and children has increased from 19 per cent to 24 per cent in a year. A household is considered "fuel poor" if it has to spend more than 10 per cent of its income on heating and hot water. Fuel costs ha http://articles.mckenziesescorts.co.uk/icy-plunge-into-poverty-for-leeds-householders_73.html 30-11-2008 Reports Britons were among those who carried out the attacks in Mumbai which claimed at least 195 lives are being investigated by security experts. It has been reported seven of the gunmen are thought to have British links, with some suspects said to be from Leeds, Hartlepool and Bradford. So far there was no evidence that any were British, the Foreign Office said. On Friday, an Indian official said two Pakistanis of British descent were among eight militants arrested. BBC security correspondent http://articles.mckenziesescorts.co.uk/probe-into-uk-links-to-mumbai_72.html 30-11-2008 Gordon Brown has chaired a Cabinet meeting in Leeds dominated by the government's response to the Mumbai attacks and the economic situation. Foreign Secretary David Miliband briefed ministers on developments in the Indian city where police are still battling gunmen at several sites. Mr Brown said there was "no evidence" to back up reports that some of the attackers were of British origin. Earlier, Mr Brown spoke to local business people about the economy. Indian speculation The Leeds gathering, http://articles.mckenziesescorts.co.uk/cabinet-discuss-mumbai-situation_71.html 30-11-2008 GARY MCALLISTER last night insisted he is still the right man to take Leeds United forward, despite the club's humiliating FA Cup exit against non-league Histon. Leeds were bundled out of the Cup following an embarrassing 1-0 defeat at the Glass World Stadium, where postman Matthew Langston heading the winning goal for the Blue Square Premier Division leaders. The result will intensify pressure on the Leeds manager, whose team have dropped out of the League One promotion positions following an i http://articles.mckenziesescorts.co.uk/leeds-dumped-out-of-fa-cup-by-nonleague-histon_70.html 30-11-2008 Drinks giant Carlsberg has announced plans to close its historic brewery site in West Yorkshire with the loss of 170 jobs. The company blamed falling consumption and higher duties for the decision to shut its Leeds site by 2011. Consultation with the workers has started and Carlsberg said it would seek to redeploy staff. There has been a brewery on site in the city since 1822 when it used to produce just Tetley beers. The brewery now produces Tetley and Carlsberg and is one of two owned by Carls http://articles.mckenziesescorts.co.uk/citys-historic-brewery-to-close_65.html 23-11-2008 Corus has announced plans to cut 400 jobs from its distribution business. The proposed job losses include 95 at the steel giant's plant at Shotton, Deeside and 50 in south Wales. Another 100 jobs will go at eight sites in the West Midlands and 50 in two locations in Leeds. The company blamed the move on the global economic downturn and said the business had been operating in a "volatile and fluctuating" market since the start of the year. The company said it had suffered a "significant decline" http://articles.mckenziesescorts.co.uk/steel-giant-plans-to-cut-400-jobs_64.html 23-11-2008 Defence giant BAE Systems is cutting 200 jobs in its army vehicles business in the UK. The job losses will affect factories in Leeds, Newcastle, Leicester and Barrow and Telford in Shropshire. Managing director David Allott said a voluntary redundancy programme was being set up. The firm has blamed the cuts on a decline in workload on the Ministry of Defence's Armoured Fighting Vehicle programmes. Mr Allott said: "We recognise the impact these job losses will have on our employees and the commun http://articles.mckenziesescorts.co.uk/defence-company-to-axe-200-jobs_63.html 23-11-2008 By Rob PreeceMAJOR plans to expand the terminal building at Leeds Bradford Airport and create up to 3,000 jobs are unveiled today.The scheme, announced by the airport's new private equity owners Bridgepoint, is at the centre of a £70m masterplan to increase passenger numbers to five million a year by 2013.Bosses will submit a planning application to Leeds Council later this month in the hope of starting building work on the project next April.Airport chief executive John Parkin said the "excitin http://articles.mckenziesescorts.co.uk/leeds-airport-to-employ-3000-more-with-70m-expansion-scheme_53.html 12-11-2008 Greg Mulholland (Leeds NW) said it was "dismaying" that 170 workers faced losing their jobs when the brewery closed in 2011.Speaker Michael Martin said the drinks industry was a "very good employer of labour" and it was right for local MPs to concern themselves with such matters.He urged Mr Mulholland to hold a short adjournment debate and put questions to ministers about the closure.Mr Martin said: "Make sure that you are letting the workers in that industry know that you are trying to be their http://articles.mckenziesescorts.co.uk/leedss-tetleys-closure-mp-fighting-for-job-loss-workers_49.html 06-11-2008 By Alun PalmerThink UFO-watcher and the image that often springs to mind is a jobless, unshaven man with lank greasy hair.He will also have body odour that could fell an ox at 50 paces, and all the social airs and graces of a cripplingly shy librarian.But here, at a slightly down-at-heel Pontefract hotel just off the M62 in my native Yorkshire, that image is well and truly shattered.There are company directors, secretaries, policemen and building society managers all gathered in this mock-Tudor http://articles.mckenziesescorts.co.uk/ufo-hunting-in-area-m62-yorkshire-by-eck-the-truth-is-out-there_41.html 28-10-2008 By Bruce SmithA PIONEERING Leeds project to deter young people from gun and knife crime has scooped an international award.The city's crime reduction partnership Safer Leeds will receive the award for its Leeds Weapons Awareness Programme from the International Society of Crime Prevention Practitioners (ISCPP) at their Colorado symposium later this month.Launched in 2004, the Leeds Weapons Awareness Programme was adopted by all Leeds secondary schools and the Leeds Youth Offending Service.More t http://articles.mckenziesescorts.co.uk/international-award-for-leeds-antiknife-and-gun-campaign_33.html 21-10-2008 By Vicki RobinsonFRESH details can today be revealed about the investigation into irregularities at Leeds's Royal Armouries museum.As the YEP has previously reported, Armouries chief executive Paul Evans was suspended in April and an internal inquiry was launched.Five months on, he has yet to return to work and has been signed off on long-term sick leave.Now the YEP has learned that museums director Peter Armstrong was also investigated in the spring when the "potential irregularities" came to l http://articles.mckenziesescorts.co.uk/director-cleared-but-leeds-museum-probe-stalls_32.html 21-10-2008 By Rupert ChristiansenAlways imaginative, always adventurous, Opera North is going for broke this season with an ambitious programme which includes Verdi's epic Don Carlos and the premiere of David Sawer and Armando Iannucci's comedy about cosmetic surgery.Also featured are two Depression-era musicals by George and Ira Gershwin, both dealing with the election of a dodgy American president. Of Thee I Sing (1931) has come first, to be followed in January by its sequel, Let 'em Eat Cake (1933)."Hig http://articles.mckenziesescorts.co.uk/review-of-thee-i-sing_31.html 21-10-2008 Head coach Neil Back has called on West Yorkshire's rugby fans to get behind Leeds Carnegie's promotion charge.Leeds have won all eight of their National One games this season, with their latest win coming over Coventry in front of 2,972 fans at Headingley."We want bigger crowds obviously," Back told BBC Radio Leeds."The team are playing fantastically well so far and I think they deserve to be better supported than they are at the moment."Leeds top National League One by five points, confirming http://articles.mckenziesescorts.co.uk/back-calls-for-more-leeds-support_30.html 21-10-2008 By David MarshSENIOR councillors have given the go ahead for a £1m pound lottery bid to improve Leeds's oldest public park.The city council hopes to win the grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund's Parks For People programme to carry out a raft of improvements at Woodhouse Moor, which was bought by Leeds corporation in 1857 and attracts nearly three million visitors each year.The council's executive board gave officers the go ahead to work up a bid which if successful will be used to improve paths http://articles.mckenziesescorts.co.uk/lottery-bid-for-moor-money-for-leeds-park_20.html 13-10-2008 WEST Yorkshire Police Authority says it has £6m invested in struggling Icelandic banks.A spokesman confirmed the force authority has £6m invested.The risk attached to those investments had been spread, following the authority's investment strategy, the spokesman said.He said: "The strategy places security above return. It is normal practice for the public sector to hold deposits in overseas banks . 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