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Polite Leeds girls go viral after being ‘so well mannered’ at local restaurant
The pub made 'four new friends'.
Salute at The White Swan in Rothwell has gone viral for sharing the story of four polite girls that came into the restaurant.
The award-winning restaurant brings Italian food to locals, with a huge array of pizzas, pastas and antipastos on offer.
Having been a friendly, neighbourhood space to unwind with a hearty meal in its current location since 2006, it's long been known as a space to visit with friends.
Salute at The White Swan often shares online about its customers, both regulars and newcomers, as well as what the staff are up to and ever changing specials - but last week the family-run restaurant found itself going viral for its heartwarming post about four 12 year old girls that visited.
Sharing their 'four new friends' on Facebook, Salute shared the following message:
"Meet : Nola, Evie, Lexie & Izzy - They are all 12 yrs old. Yesterday they came to Salute and asked for a table for drinks only! They then ordered 4 glasses of water and asked for as many breadstick as they were allowed!
"They were so well - mannered, saying 'please' and 'thank you'.
"I am so happy that Salute can provide a safe and fun place for kids to feel and act like adults. Bonus for them it cost them £0.00.
"For us - We made four new friends and who knows -possible future recruits!"
The post has since amassed a whopping 16,000 likes on Facebook alone and has seen a whole string of comments applauding the hospitality of the pub.
One said "Well done to you for letting them sit there even if they didn’t buy anything, shows you care, well done", receiving over 1,000 likes alone".
Another said: "Fantastic! Not having to hang around on the streets...nice place for them to be .. well done team x"
People also shared their own stories from their youth: "When I was 15 until I was 21 I was a regular at a pub with 20+ of friends/people i knew. The reason the landlord let us all in was to keep us out of trouble and out of bad weather instead of being about on the streets. We loved using the jukebox and sat in the pool room playing pool all day and drinking pop. I don't see the issue here with these kids?"
You can see the full post from Salute at The White Swan here.
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Here’s how you can get FREE Tony’s Chocolonely and Yorkshire Tea in Leeds next week
Clementine Hall
In honour of National Chocolate Week, two big brands are joining forces.
Fancy a freebie? Silly question, of course you do.
Tony’s Chocolonely and Yorkshire Tea have joined forces for National Chocolate Week to ask Brits to declare themselves a ‘Melt’...yes, really.
It comes after the brands discovering a new Gen Z dunking trend, with research finding that 80% of 18–24-year-olds say chocolate is their preferred tea-dunking treat.
To understand why the perculiar pairing has become so popular, the brands recruited Associate Professor of Psychobiology, Dr Lorenzo Stafford, to investigate what happens when tea and chocolate come together.
Associate Professor, Dr Lorenzo Stafford said: "It's fascinating to see how much thought Brits put into what makes a great dunk. Flavour, texture and temperature all shape how we experience food, and the combination of hot tea with melting chocolate creates a particularly enjoyable sensory experience.
"When it comes to dunking, tea and chocolate have great chemistry so it’s no surprise young people have embraced it."
If you want to try it out for yourself, then you can for free - but there is one catch.
From Monday 19 to Friday 23 October, anyone who walks into one of Hyde Park Book Club in Leeds and says ‘I'm a Melt’ will get a free mug of Yorkshire Tea and bar of Tony's Chocolonely.
Not only that, but the first 100 customers will also get a limited-edition ‘Melt’ cap.
Yorkshire Tea & Tony’s Chocolonely said of the partnership, “Brits love their tea and their chocolate and now the science shows why. This National Chocolate Week, we’re inviting everyone to give it a go, embrace their inner Melt and discover just how well chunky chocolate and a proper brew can work together.”
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Leeds Bradford Airport strikes will NOT go ahead following ‘late offer’ over pay
Clementine Hall
This weekend's strikes at Leeds Bradford Airport have been cancelled.
Around 130 workers were set to walk out this weekend, Unite said, but this has been suspended to allow air traffic controllers to consider a new pay offer.
The Unite members planning on to go on strike were a mixture of air traffic control workers, customer experience staff, security staff and cleaners.
The workers involved in the dispute had recently come out of a four-year pay deal, with some of the departments having fallen behind other airports in equivalent roles.
Pay talks have been happening since December 2025, with the airport's formal offer not going far enough to address the lack of pay parity which led to the decision to strike.
However, as of yesterday 15 October, the workers have been given new pay offers from the airport and the strikes will not take place to allow a ballot on the offers.
Air traffic controllers and hourly paid staff are being balloted separately on their respective offers.
Unite regional officer Neil Whitaker said: "After receiving offers from Leeds Bradford Airport, we have suspended this week’s strike action in good faith to allow members to vote on pay deals.”
In a statement, Leeds Bradford Airport said: "While the ballot process continues with certain members of our frontline colleagues, we remain hopeful that a positive outcome can be achieved and that an agreement can be reached which works for everyone involved.
"Regardless of the outcome of this ballot, LBA has a robust contingency plan in place and will be operating as normal this weekend.
"Our focus remains on supporting a smooth and reliable experience for customers while maintaining safe and efficient airport operations."
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16th May 2023 
