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Jonathan Dyson prepares the next edition of the 100-year-old magazine

4:00pm Sunday 17th August 2008

Not many outside the textile trade will know much about the Wool Record. Like many specialist magazines its pages are read mainly by insiders.

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Flat-screen boom

12:00pm Sunday 17th August 2008

The popularity of flat-screen televisions is boosting trade for a small business that has moved to Bradford to expand.

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Anger at loss of Postwatch

6:00pm Saturday 16th August 2008

The merger of three consumer watchdogs into one body which will not handle complaints from individual companies has been condemned by business leaders.

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Copper Dragon keeps it local

From the left, James Sutcliffe, David Sutcliffe, Steve Taylor and Joanne Sutcliffe

3:50pm Saturday 16th August 2008

Skipton brewery Copper Dragon is using a local family-owned firm to build its new £4m brewery headquarters on the town’s Snaygill Industrial Estate.

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Firm wins green marketing contract

3:22pm Thursday 7th August 2008

An Ilkley-based design and marketing agency saw off global competition to win a major branding contract. Westbrook Creative has designed new branding for The Social Carbon Company, a new company dedicated to offsetting the effects of carbon emissions globally.

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Change at top for bank

2:42pm Thursday 7th August 2008

Yorkshire Bank has announced its reorganised top team following news of the departure of operations director Glenn King, who is returning to his native Australia to head up a new business.

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E-commerce firm moves in

1:50pm Tuesday 5th August 2008

A company providing e-commerce services is transferring its head office from Oxfordshire to West Yorkshire after buying two Cleckheaton-based firms.

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A world of opportunity beckons for Ian

Ian Wotton, MD of Redfern Travel

11:10am Sunday 3rd August 2008

What’s a geophysicist doing running a travel business?

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Car is the star of anniversary show

4:20pm Saturday 2nd August 2008

One of the world’s oldest Land Rover dealerships is celebrating its 60th anniversary by displaying a luxury vehicle favoured by celebrities such as Liverpool and England star Steven Gerrard.

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‘Vans will save us £30,000'

Balbir Panesar with his company’s new fleet of vans

12:01pm Saturday 2nd August 2008

A Bradford entrepreneur is anticipating saving up to £30,000 a year on fuel costs after investing in a new fleet of vehicles for his business.

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National News

HRT may improve sleep and sexuality

Australian scientists beieve HRT could improve sleep and sexuality

Updated 5:21am Friday 22nd August 2008

Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) could result in improvements in sleep, sexuality and joint pain in older women, according to new research.


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