The Latest News from Earnshaws

If you missed our great new radio commercials, don’t panic! They are now on our website!

The fifth Ossett Beercart Festival will be held on Friday 1st and Saturday 2nd June 2018 at the Town Hall in Ossett Town Centre. The Ossett Beercart is an annual event, organised by Wakefield Morris Dancers, in aid of Wakefield Hospice.

We still have a small number of permits available for our fishing pond!

Day 2 of this year’s Tour de Yorkshire goes right past the gates our South Yorkshire Centre at Wentworth nr Rotherham.

The latest series of Britain in Bloom will be appearing on our screens again, starting weekdays this week at 6.30pm on BBC Two.

We are delighted to be associated with a Leeds-based luxury bed manufacturer who have felled their first trees from its responsibly managed forest in Sand Hutton, Yorkshire.

According to research by the University of Maryland, published in Nature, scientists have developed a new “super wood”, which is 10 times stronger than normal wood, making it a potential substitute for steel and other materials.

The premiere of the new Tomb Raider movie took place in London’s West End this week.

Sainsbury’s have recently published a very useful infographic to help our feathered friends and the environment.

As we look forward to the Winter Olympics and wish Team GB “Good Luck” here is a brief history of ski manufacture – with special emphasis on wood of course!

Blue Monday, the most miserable day of year is behind us, and the daylight hours are getting longer but there is still plenty cold weather to come so now is the time to restock on firewood and logs – and do as the Danish do – by practising the art of Hygge.

Winter is the time we most need to look after our precious indigenous and visiting bird populations – so stock up on bird feed and bird care products at your nearest Centre, to help them through the coming cold snap! The 14th of February is also the start of the 21st annual National Nest Box Week, when people across Britain are encouraged to put up a nest box and provide a family home for our birds.