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The Lord Mayor of Leeds, Councillor David Congreve and the Lady Mayoress Janet Harper unzipped a specially made giant six foot zip on Harrogate Road, Chapel Allerton to officially open The ZipYard garment repair centre at on Monday 28 July.
Dream Doors Oxford franchisees, Mike and Elaine Hurley, sold £214,000 of kitchens and kitchen makeovers in June. The couple, who opened their Abingdon-based showroom four years ago, set the previous monthly record of £187,000 back in September 2011.
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Girvin Vincent is celebrating 21 years as a Mail Boxes Etc. franchisee. He was the first person to join the network, starting his business in 1993 in Store Street, London. The franchise pilot store in Marylebone High Street had been operating for a year at that time.
James Neale has always wanted to run his own business, so when the opportunity arose he seized the opportunity to achieve his life-long ambition and set up The ZipYard Leeds.
Estelle Peters, a former teacher has just celebrated her 100th birthday and is not about to stop enjoying living independently at home, despite having reached this milestone.
Recently voted the happiest place to live, it’s smiles all round in Harrogate for Belvoir franchise owner Bill Smith who has celebrated 20 years in business this year.
“Sweet!” That was Neil McCarthy’s reaction when he heard he’d won a hamper full of traditional confectionery, courtesy of leading franchisor, Driver Hire. Neil, is a transport manager for Preston based-builders’ merchants, C & W Berry Ltd, who are customers of Driver Hire Preston.
Owner of The ZipYard in Marple and clothes designer Jane Nketiah is used to getting requests for one-off items, so when leading outdoor clothing specialists Regatta asked her to create a birdman outfit for this weekend’s International Birdman competition she rose to the challenge.
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