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Xscape Yorkshire rolls out abuse-prevention training as retail staff face 1,600 attacks a day nationally

Landsec has expanded its partnership with the Retail Trust to Xscape Yorkshire and 12 other UK sites, offering free de-escalation and resilience training to shop-floor, security and cleaning staff, as new figures show retail workers nationally face more than 1,600 incidents of abuse or violence every day.

September 17, 2026

Business Featured Yorkshire

Yorkshire Mafia’s Leeds Business Social returns to The Banksia this month

Yorkshire Mafia's next Leeds Business Social takes place at The Banksia, Hotel Indigo, on Thursday 24 September, as founder Geoff Shepherd sets out ambitions to significantly grow the organisation's membership through 2026.

September 15, 2026Leeds

Business Featured North Yorkshire

Planning approved for £2bn York Central regeneration scheme’s first phase

The first phase of York Central, one of the UK's largest regeneration schemes, has been granted planning approval, paving the way for over 1,000 new homes, a hotel, a new station entrance and thousands of jobs.

September 14, 2026York

Business Featured Society

If you don’t choose AI regulation, we’ll kill this dog

Humanity is useless at processing doom on a global scale. Which is why we need Mr Cheeseface.

September 12, 2026

Business Featured South Yorkshire

Barnsley businesses invited to help shape digital careers event for schools

Barnsley businesses are invited to take part in Ctrl + Alt + Learn: Digital Careers, a new event on Thursday 1 October connecting local schools with the borough's digital and technology sector.

September 11, 2026Barnsley

Business Featured West Yorkshire

Huddersfield launches AI-Ready Yorkshire to connect small business with AI expertise

A new University of Huddersfield programme, AI-Ready Yorkshire, will connect small and medium-sized businesses with AI students and graduates through at least 60 placements and traineeships over three years, launching on 23 September.

September 7, 2026Huddersfield

Tracking the drilling rig's voyage aboard the BBC Bangkok

Business Environment Featured

Powerful drilling rig sails towards York for four-kilometre geothermal well

A specialist drilling rig is sailing from Turkey to North East Lincolnshire ahead of a four-kilometre geothermal well at the University of York, part of the FutureSource project aimed at cutting the university's fossil fuel use.

September 3, 2026York

Whitby’s historic Grade II* listed Old Town Hall

Business East Yorkshire Featured

Whitby traders back in business as £1.3m Old Town Hall restoration completes

Whitby's market traders have returned to a fully restored Old Town Hall, following a £1.3 million project to repair the Grade II* listed 18th-century landmark.

August 29, 2026Whitby

Business Featured West Yorkshire

Wakefield’s historic Old Crown Court to reopen as The Court House

Work is under way to transform Wakefield's 200-year-old, grade II listed Old Crown Court into The Court House, a new bar, workspace and cultural venue due to open in early 2027.

August 20, 2026Wakefield

Business Featured West Yorkshire

Bradford waste site to be cleared as PM launches crackdown on illegal dumping

The illegal waste site on Bradford's Midland Road, under investigation since early July, is one of three nationally confirmed for government-funded clearance as the Prime Minister unveils a crackdown on organised waste crime.

August 20, 2026Bradford