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Estate agency duo’s loss is charity’s gain

CUSTOMERS of a Yorkshire estate agency will be seeing a lot less of two of its branch managers over the next few months – but it’s all in a good cause.

For Anthony Metcalfe and David Mear, who work for Linley & Simpson, have challenged themselves to a battle of the scales with a sponsored slim.

They hope their weight loss will be Martin House’s gain as they bid to raise £1,000 for the children’s and young people’s hospice at Boston Spa – the company’s long-standing charity partner.

The New Year challenge will end on April 1, when there will be an official final weigh-in to determine whose waistline has shrunk the most.

As an added forfeit, the loser of the competition will have to pay £2 to the charity for every pound in weight shed by the winner.

And that could end up being quite a hefty amount after the first weigh-in revealed a slimmed-down David, who manages the Horsforth branch and is Area Lettings Manager for West Yorkshire, had already lost 8lbs.

While an even-sleeker Anthony, who heads up the Harrogate branch and is Area Lettings Manager for North Yorkshire, hit the scales 9lbs lighter.

The duo are being encouraged in their calorie challenge by colleagues from across Linley & Simpson’s network of West and North Yorkshire offices, including Leeds city centre, Horsforth, Roundhay, Chapel Allerton, Wetherby, York, Harrogate, Ripon, Ilkley, Saltaire and Wakefield.

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