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BBC News
10-06-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Blaze-hit Addingham cafe's owner aims to rebuild business
The owner of a cafe which was destroyed by fire on her 59th birthday has vowed the business will Pittendreigh said she was asleep in her home next to the Joyful Deli in Addingham in the early hours of Monday when she was woken by noises and discovered the Pittendreigh, her husband and their two sons fled the building and called 999, but the barn housing the cafe's main service and seating area was destroyed in the online fundraiser has already raised over £2,000 towards replacing catering equipment, and Ms Pittendreigh said: "We're just going to get cleared up and try to get back to normal as quickly as we possibly can." West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service said the fire at the Joyful Deli was being treated as accidental. Ms Pittendreigh said she had been due to fly out to Spain for a few days to celebrate her birthday, but was now having to rebuild her business from scratch."I was woken up around half past one in the morning with what I thought was a rather noisy milkman leaving his milk at the door," she said."To my surprise it was the barn that was on fire and I could actually see the flames coming through the barn roof."The fire has then spread across to the house, taken the roof off the bathroom and one of the bedrooms."So, now we're in a situation needing to find somewhere else to stay while we get on top of all this work." Ms Pittendreigh said the cafe's buildings were insured, but the contents were not covered due to a clause related to it being on a flood explained that she had started the cafe during the Covid lockdowns, with husband Mike, 57, originally offering plants for sale along with hot grew into a bar and eventually a restaurant, although it took until earlier this year for Bradford Council to grant retrospective planning Pittendreigh said the blaze had left her "in a bit of shock"."We've had quite a lot of customers crying, bringing flowers and food for us", she said. Head chef Rosie Bell, 29, said she had set up the online fundraiser hoping to help get the business back on track as soon as possible."I think what made me do it was feeling helpless, to be honest," Ms Bell explained."I was expecting to come into my shift and instead you're coming into a burnt-down room."You just feel completely beside yourself and think, 'what can I do?' "It's not just a restaurant. It's the home to Jilly, to her horses, to all the animals that are here, and it's also a place of respite for a lot of our customers."We have people coming in every day and they've been coming here, a lot of them, for the past five years." Meanwhile, Ms Pittendreigh said she and everyone else involved were bracing themselves for the rebuilding challenge ahead."We're just going to get cleared up and hopefully get on with it and try to get back to normal as quickly as we possibly can," she said. Listen to highlights from West Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North.
BBC News
02-06-2025
- Health
- BBC News
Addingham woman with terminal cancer completes Everest Marathon
A woman with incurable breast cancer has said her resilience "paid off" after she completed the Everest Burke, from Addingham, West Yorkshire, was diagnosed with stage four breast cancer in 2024, and has since undergone four months of chemotherapy, a double mastectomy, liver surgery and Burke, an associate professor in exercise and health psychology at the University of Leeds, completed the race on 29 May in seven hours and 41 minutes, finishing fourth in her said the marathon - which is the world's highest - was "extremely demanding on the body", as starting at such a high altitude meant there was less oxygen in the air. "The Everest Marathon actually starts at an elevation of 5,300m [17,388ft], which is very taxing on the human body," she explained."The body is under stress because of the low oxygen in the air, so everyday simple tasks - getting in and out of your tent to walk to the dining tent or to walk to the toilet tent - can actually become very difficult."Your heart rate becomes elevated, breathing becomes more laborious - so if you can imagine trying to run a marathon at that altitude, how hard that actually is."Despite this, Dr Burke said the atmosphere among the competitors was "absolutely fantastic", with at least 200 participants from 32 different countries running in the marathon. "Everyone was united by just wanting to be in the mountains and to experience something very different," Dr Burke said. "It is not just a marathon, it is more than that. It passes through the Sherpa villages, passes through the monasteries."It offers that real inside look into the cultural heritage of the Khumbu Valley."Dr Burke, who is Canadian, has been to the Everest region three times before, first visiting back in work involves studying exercise and its effects on cancer, and throughout her cancer treatment she said she had managed to stay fit, running to and from her hospital appointments as a way of has previously climbed four out of the seven highest peaks in the world - Mount Aconcagua in Argentina, Elbrus in Russia, Kilimanjaro in Africa and Everest in Nepal. Dr Burke said the Everest Marathon "played to my strengths as a mountaineer"."I summited Everest in 2005, so I do know what it's like to push myself in high altitudes. "That resilience, I have it within me, and I think it paid off."It took me seven hours and 41 minutes to complete the marathon, you can't compare this to a marathon at sea level."I ended up finishing fourth for females in the foreigner category, so I am very pleased with my result." Dr Burke vowed not to give up on her passion for the mountains, and said: "Bigger mountains are coming next, watch this space."The Tenzing Hillary Everest Marathon is an annual race which starts at Everest Base Camp and finishes in the town of Namche is held on 29 May to celebrate the Everest ascent by Tenzing Norgay Sherpa and Sir Edmund Hillary on the same date in only did Dr Burke complete the marathon, to acclimatise less than two weeks before she also climbed the 20,075ft (6,119m) high Lobuche Peak in Nepal. She has raised more than £10,000 for the Macmillan cancer charity, which helped her during her treatment at Airedale Hospital and St James' Hospital in Leeds. Listen to highlights from West Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North.
