"YOBS"
Latest update 22nd August 2025.
This is the unofficial website for former employees of what was once Yorkshire's Premier Bank.
This website is intended to be a source of information and a forum for anyone interested.
The Web Meister undertakes not to publish addresses or telephone numbers without contributor's express permission.
YOBS WALKS
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AUGUST 2025
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DATE: Wednesday 27th August 2025.
TIME: 10.30 for 11:00am start.
VENUE: The Chatsworth Estate, Derbyshire.
MEET: Calton Lees Car Park next to the Garden Centre, Beeley, Matlock DE4 2NX.
OS Map ref. SK257/685, III grapevine.overruns.resolves
The car park is open from 9am to 6pm and tickets are between £7.50 and £10 per vehicle, depending on the season.
DIRECTIONS: From Baslow on A619, south of Sheffield, take B6012 towards Beeley and drive all the way through Chatsworth Park. Meeting point is on the right immediately before the packhorse bridge exiting the Park.
WALK DETAILS: This 7½-8 mile walk naturally splits into two sections providing the opportunity to retire at the halfway point if desired. There are two gradual climbs but the views over Chatsworth Estate make them both worthwhile.
REFRESHMENTS: After-walk refreshments in Chatsworth Garden Centre Café about 100 yards from the parking location. They serve anything from a cuppa and a scone to a roast.
FURTHER INFORMATION FROM: Derek Naylor
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This BBC article may help you to decide
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Share this message to social media, community groups, friends
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III 🆕 Meet the Locate Link
If you’re a bit of a worrier about loved ones getting lost, the Locate Link is for you. By simply saving this link, you’ll be prepared if you can’t find their location or they can’t easily say where they are.
With the summer holidays upon us, it’s a helpful way for parents to get their kids’ location quickly and precisely. It’s also a good tool for those who care for vulnerable people, or for use with anyone you know who struggles with technology.
Here’s how it works
Copy the link below and send it to the person you’d like to locate. When they open the link, they’ll be taken to a web page which will display the 3 words for their location. This page has been designed to have a low data requirement, so it should load even in areas with poor data connection. They can then send you these words or give you them over the phone.
⭐ Bookmark the link now so you can find it when you need it :
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Keep an eye on the RPI
The following link will take you to a site that will give you the latest published Retail Price Index.
Your annual pension %age increase is equivalent to the December figure (which is published mid January) each year, up to a maximum of 5%.
The R.P.I. (Retail Prices Index)
should not be confused with
C.P.I. (Consumer Price Index)
the Government’s preferred measure of inflation.
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-kingdom/retail-price-index
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PLUS
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Hello Everyone
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OBITUARY
I am sorry to let you know of the death of Tony Willshaw, formerly School Bank Section and Skipton branch, on 11 August aged 79.
The funeral and celebration of life will be held on Monday, 1 September at 1.15 pm at St Paul's Church, Raynel Drive, Ireland Wood, Leeds LS16 6BS.
This will be followed by refreshments in the adjoining church hall. Tony's widow, Jean, and the family invite anyone who remembers Tony to join in this celebration and ask that people do not wear black.
Could I please ask you to pass on this information to fellow pensioners with whom you are in regular contact, particularly those who are not online.
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The July edition of PLUS
Please read this important information
Is now available and, as you know, it is normally accessible to read via the YOBS website, which you need to be registered to use. However, some of you will know that there are difficulties logging on to the site currently because of the web host's programming issues.The host is working on these but in the meantime the site administrator, fellow pensioner John Jefferis, is looking for a new web host. John has asked me to pass on his apologies to you all for the inconvenience these problems are causing and, for my part, I'd like to take this opportunity of giving him my warmest thanks for the huge amount of time and effort he's putting in towards resolving these website issues.
In the meantime, I'm pleased to tell you that the July edition is stored in the Cloud and can be accessed by clicking on the link 2507 PLUS July 2025, 6 pages and entering password PlusMag2507 exactly as shown. To enlarge the initial image which opens in Cloud you should click the three menu dots at top left of the screen and then select 'Download' (menu may appear differently on tablet/iPad or phone). You can then adjust the size of the image to suit.
If you have any difficulties accessing PLUS or have any other queries of a technical nature concerning the YOBS site, please contact John on access@yobs.org.uk
THIS EDITION
Leeds Pensioners' Lunch 2025
It's time to book your place at the postponed Leeds Pensioners' Lunch which takes place on Friday 17 October. You'll find all the information you need on page 3 of this month's edition.
If you'd find it useful to have a PDF version of that page emailing to you please contact me on andrea.plusmag@btinternet.com
Whatever Happened to Ernest Clough? (The Sequel)
Former prizewinners of the Ernest Clough Memorial Prize divulge what they won - and how much they were allowed to spend
Inbox
A scurrilous snippet from a reader's wife
YOUR LINK TO THE YOBS WEBSITE: www.yobs.org.uk
Please note that some users are currently experiencing difficulties accessing this site.
Best wishes from...Andrea Wynne, Editor, PLUS
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