Senior councillors have approved a 10-year strategy designed to open a new chapter in Leeds’s affordable housing success story.

Political leaders, senior local authority officers and other prominent figures from across the country have gathered in Leeds today for 2026’s Securing the Future of Council Housing Summit.

Important details released for May 7 election including Monday 20 April deadline for registering to vote

A mysterious coin once used to pay a bus fare in Leeds was minted by an ancient civilisation more than 2,000 years ago, it has been revealed.

The astonishing discovery, handed to an unwitting local bus driver in the 1950s, was produced by Carthaginians, part of the Phoenician culture, in the Spanish city of Cadiz during the 1^st century BC and has now kindly been donated to Leeds Museums and Galleries.

The Leader of Leeds City Council and guests joined the Lord Mayor of Leeds for an iftar meal on Wednesday, 4 March at the Civic Hall’s Banqueting Suite.