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Exclusive coverage: Variety Club Business Awards
SIR Christopher Meyer, was the surprise guest yesterday at a charity awards ceremony to honour the best in Yorkshire business.
The former ambassador, who was Britain's man in Washington when the
Iraq war began in 2003, entertained guests at the Variety Club Yorkshire Business Awards, supported by the Yorkshire Post and Hitchenor Wakeford Execu-tive Search, which took place at The Queens Hotel in Leeds.
Mark Abrahams, chief executive of conveyor belt manufacturer Fenner, based in Hessle, near Hull, was named business leader of the year and Card Factory won the prize for board of the year.
Richard Hayes, managing director of the Wakefield greetings card firm – owned by Dean Hoyle, now the Huddersfield Town chairman – collected the award.
Sir Gordon Linacre, past president of Yorkshire Post Newspapers, won the Variety Club lifetime achievement award and Bluebird Vehicles, which designs and manufactures low-floor specialist vehicles and is based in Scarborough, was named small business of the year.
For full coverage of the awards see Business Tuesday.
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