There is something almost vertiginous about watching a piece of theatre that begins with an archival discovery and ends with a royal bloodline. Desirée Baptiste's remarkable one-woman play-poem, performed in the transept of Ripon Cathedral as part of this year's Ripon Theatre Festival, is built around a letter written in 1723 by an anonymous enslaved Virginian — the earliest known written plea for freedom by an enslaved person anywhere in the British Empire — and by the time the final revelations unfold, the history it excavates has reached into corners of English life that you would not have predicted at the outset.

Rural broadband provider Quickline has successfully connected almost 11,000 publicly funded premises across North Yorkshire as part of the Government’s Project Gigabit programme – reaching the contractual milestone two months ahead of schedule.

Meetings are an integral part of how organisations operate today. Schedules are often packed weeks ahead, leaving employees with little choice but to spend significant time in discussions, reviewing strategies, monitoring progress and tackling challenges.

Castings Technology has celebrated a double induction at the Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire, with two employees welcomed into the 400-year-old Sheffield trade guild. Dave Leary, commercial lead, was inducted as a Freeman, while Curtis Oxborough, training and development manager, was welcomed as an Associate Freeman.

Magtec, a UK designer and manufacturer of electric vehicle drive systems, has completed the world's first electric repower of an iconic London Routemaster bus for sightseeing operator Golden Tours.

Andy Burnham's landslide victory in Makerfield, followed by Keir Starmer's resignation, has accelerated speculation about his path to Number 10. If he gets there, Britain will have something it has not seen for a generation: a Prime Minister whose political identity has been shaped by the North of England rather than Westminster. For entrepreneurs, that matters.