An innovative careers programme helping the city’s aspiring SEND museums professionals make history has scooped a top national award.

Careers for All, run by Leeds Museums and Galleries, was named Training Initiative of the Year (Public and Not for Profit) at the prestigious British Training Awards after impressing a panel of judges from across the learning and business sectors.

A widower has hailed the “life-changing” impact of community groups for helping him emerge from years of loneliness and solitude to find his voice as a singer in one of Leeds’s best-known choirs.

Road users are being urged to plan ahead for the final stages of the Lawnswood roundabout improvement scheme, with essential carriageway works taking place throughout August and into early September.

A brand-new food festival will arrive on Millennium Square this weekend bringing foods from around the world to the heart of the city centre.

This Friday to Sunday (July 24-26) Leeds Street Feast will see street food vendors, local independent traders, live music and DJs on the square for a three-day celebration of food and culture.

Road closures will be introduced at Temple Newsam estate starting Thursday 23 July to combat nuisance driving and anti-social behaviour.

The fossilised remains of a fascinating 320-million-year-old fish once thought to be extinct have been unearthed at a popular Leeds beauty spot.

The well-preserved, prehistoric skull bone of a coelacanth was discovered by a geologist at Roundhay Park earlier this year after being frozen in time aeons ago, during an era when the park was submerged under a vast tropical lagoon.