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11 Mar 2026

New strategy sets out vision for decade of affordable housing growth in Leeds

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

Housing

National summit in Leeds lays foundations for new era of council housing growth: Summit 1-2

10 Mar 2026

National summit in Leeds lays foundations for new era of council housing growth

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.

Housing

Key information and dates ahead of 2026 Leeds City Council election: Registertovote

09 Mar 2026

Key information and dates ahead of 2026 Leeds City Council election

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

Elections

Fare to say ancient coin has travelled through time: IMG 5350

09 Mar 2026

Fare to say ancient coin has travelled through time

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 1st century BC and has now kindly been donated to Leeds Museums and Galleries.

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