In Brief: Emsleys launches free service; McClements to speak at charity dinner; Shepherds Purse wins gold

SOLICITORS and estate agents Emsleys has launched a free legal consultation service for West Yorkshire businesses.

The no obligation service gives business an opportunity to discuss any legal issue with no charge.

Robert Bates, a Solicitor from Emsleys, said: “It has been a difficult time for local businesses and we want to support them by offering a free consultation with a legal expert. Whether it’s issues with suppliers, customers, employees, landlords or tenants, we can help.”  

He added: “Going to a solicitor is often perceived as being expensive and the last resort. The reality is that prevention is usually cheaper than the cure and if something does go wrong a business puts its future in jeopardy by not taking professional advice as early as possible.”

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TABLES are still available for a dinner which will raise funds for The Prince’s Trust.

The charity gala dinner is taking place at the Queens Hotel in Leeds on January 20 from 7.30pm and its organisers have sold more than 20 tables but are still on the lookout for prizes to a raffle, which features a chance to win a trip to the Augusta Masters, on the evening.

The dinner is being held as part of Royal Bank of Scotland’s Leeds Invoice Finance team’s The Prince’s Trust Million Maker Challenge, which has the aim of raise a minimum of £10,000.

The team held a golf day at Ilkley Golf Club in September for the cause and at the dinner Robert McClements, the chairman of Print Yorkshire who recently completed the Peking to Paris Rally, will be the main speaker.

For further information contact Mark Heyes on at RBS Invoice Finance by emailing mark.heyes@rbsif.co.uk.

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ARTISAN family-run cheese makers, Shepherds Purse, of Thirsk, North Yorkshire, has scooped another award win for its best selling cheese, Yorkshire Blue.

The company won gold at this year’s World Cheese Awards, hosted at the recent BBC Good Food Show.

For 22 years the World Cheese Awards, run by the UK’s Guild of Fine Food, have been bringing together experts from the dairy industry worldwide for the largest cheese competition in the world. 

Yorkshire Blue, traditionally handmade to the Bell family recipe with locally sourced cow’s milk, scooped Gold in the Blue Vein cheese category.