Adage Dance, an independent and specialist retailer of premium dancewear and accessories, has made the decision to close its physical store and shift its operations to an online-only platform. This transition is aimed at better meeting changing consumerpreferences and providing an enhanced shopping experience for its valued customers. The decision to close the physical store was not made lightly, but rather as a strategic response to increasing costs, a need to renew the lease on the premises and evolving market dynamics and the growing demand for online shopping. By focusing exclusively on e-commerce, Adage Dance aims to provide greater accessibility, Harrogate Informer …

Alan Titchmarsh is the patron of Horticap, and visited the centre on Otely Road, in Harrogate today (17 May 2023). Horticap has a team of volunteers, and staff, who provide adults with learning and other disabilities training in horticulture, allied crafts and rural skills. He is a proud advocate of what Horticap does, and how it aligns with own beliefs on what an understanding of the natural world can do. Horticap is going through a period of development with a new building, shop and café. Outside work is just completing on a new garden, and there is a nature trail. Harrogate Informer …