An audacious bid to rescue King Charles I from imprisonment in Leeds is among the timeless tales discovered amid the pages of the city’s earliest written history.

The remarkable plot, told for what is believed to be the very first time within the centuries-old text, saw the notorious monarch offered a chance of escape from Red Hall in the city centre in 1647 by donning women’s clothes, which he politely declined.

Councillor Mary Harland has been awarded an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in the New Year Honours.

Today marks the tenth anniversary of the 2015 ‘Boxing Day floods’ in Leeds, when waterways across the city burst their banks in a 1-in-200-year flood event.  

Leeds City Council has announced the commencement of construction on the transformative £12.76million Leeds City Links scheme.

Leeds electronic music pioneers Utah Saints will curate and headline a brand-new, Ibiza-inspired outdoor summer dance party in Leeds next summer, as Club Classical Ibiza takes over Leeds Millennium Square.

A successful prosecution has underlined Leeds City Council’s determination to tackle rogue private sector landlords and the issues they cause for their beleaguered tenants.