Chris Burn

Running trams to Leeds United’s expanded Elland Road stadium should be accelerated as a way to “kick off” momentum for the wider West Yorkshire mass transit scheme and regeneration work around the ground, a club board member has said.

As Dave Rowntree heads to Yorkshire to discuss Blur’s early days and his pictures which documented them, he tells Chris Burn their long road to global success couldn’t be repeated today.

Infrastructure giant Peel can repeat the success of its MediaCity development in Salford with its regeneration plans for 1,700 acres of land surrounding Doncaster Sheffield Airport, a company director has suggested.

The political fortunes of Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have become so intertwined in recent years there is an understandably widespread assumption that a change of Prime Minister would also lead to a new Chancellor.

The Yorkshire Post’s parent company Iconic Media has purchased The Dalesman magazine as it expands its “long-term commitment” to journalism in this region.

A regional housebuilding firm is changing its name as it eyes expansion plans.

British Business Bank chief executive Louis Taylor is driving a bolder approach to backing the UK’s army of entrepreneurs. He spoke to Chris Burn during a visit to Leeds this week.

There is a “massive opportunity” to attract organisations in the defence sector to South Yorkshire through the reopening of Doncaster Sheffield Airport, Oliver Coppard has said.

Oliver Coppard has been talking to Chinese investors about potential backing for the project to reopen Doncaster Sheffield Airport.

Thousands of people will be in attendance as business festival Climb26 returns to Leeds at the start of next month.