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Road Safety Week: Stark figures highlight impact of deaths and serious injuries on district’s roads: Road Safety Week 600x338

20 Nov 2024

Road Safety Week: Stark figures highlight impact of deaths and serious injuries on district’s roads

An average of one person every month is killed and more than one seriously injured every day on roads in Leeds, latest figures show.

Highways

New homes set to ease housing pressures and give helping hand to local families: Hough Top

19 Nov 2024

New homes set to ease housing pressures and give helping hand to local families

Construction work is set to start on a scheme that will ease housing pressures in Leeds by providing dozens of affordable council homes.

Housing

Garden waste collections to pause for the winter: Brown bin with leaves

15 Nov 2024

Garden waste collections to pause for the winter

Brown bin collections in Leeds are going into their usual annual winter hibernation after 30 November.

Bin collections/waste services

Report highlights city’s innovative work to create healthier homes:  health and housing cropped

13 Nov 2024

Report highlights city’s innovative work to create healthier homes

A new report has highlighted promising results being achieved by work in Leeds to improve people's health through better housing.

Health Housing

Mural tribute planned for city’s unsung sports stars: Kadeena-4

13 Nov 2024

Mural tribute planned for city’s unsung sports stars

A record-breaking local swimmer and a legendary Leeds Paralympian are among the city’s unsung sporting heroes set to be honoured in series of eye-catching new murals.

Doris Storey, who smashed the record for the 220yds breaststroke in 1938, and Kadeena Cox, who has brought home a remarkable string of Paralympic gold medals in sprinting and cycling, have been chosen by a panel of volunteers to be commemorated in the exciting new arts project.

Museums and galleries Leeds City Museum Arts

Honour for fallen Leeds servicemen after library’s historic photo find: Christmas Eve3

11 Nov 2024

Honour for fallen Leeds servicemen after library’s historic photo find

Photographs of three Leeds soldiers killed during the Second World War and laid to rest in a cemetery in The Netherlands have been placed before their graves thanks to librarians in their home city.

Pictures of Lance Corporal Herbert Alan Young, teenager Private John Keddie and Sapper Walter Marshall have been laid at the CWGC Venray War Cemetery as part of a moving commemoration event held by local residents.

Libraries

Leeds City Council Logo

11 Nov 2024

New court orders are the key to safer spaces in three Leeds tower blocks

Residents in a Leeds community have hailed the positive impact of new court orders designed to help keep three tower blocks free of criminals and other troublemakers.

Housing Anti-social behaviour

Wallabies bounce into new home at Lotherton Wildlife World: Wallabies at Lotherton cropped

06 Nov 2024

Wallabies bounce into new home at Lotherton Wildlife World

Lotherton has welcomed a hopping troupe of wallabies into the wide range of animals hosted at their popular outdoor zoo.

Parks and countryside Lotherton Hall

Woodhouse Lane Gateway: £20m transformative travel plans unveiled for key city centre route: Parkinson Building visualisation cropped

06 Nov 2024

Woodhouse Lane Gateway: £20m transformative travel plans unveiled for key city centre route

Have your say on the proposals, between the centre of Leeds and Hyde Park and Woodhouse areas of the city, by Monday 16 December 2024.

Connecting Leeds Highways Transport City centre

Gallery exhibitions put Leeds in the frame: SC-Comma39-Still3

06 Nov 2024

Gallery exhibitions put Leeds in the frame

Two artists – each with their own Leeds connection - will have their ground-breaking works displayed at the city’s art gallery this week.

November will see Leeds Art Gallery launch Stuart Croft: Eternal Return and Silent Echoes Spoken Truths: Curtis Holder, with the exhibitions opening jointly on November 8.

Leeds Art Gallery Museums and galleries

Honouring the fallen: Lord Mayor to lead Leeds in the act of remembrance: Remembrance Sunday 2023 cropped

06 Nov 2024

Honouring the fallen: Lord Mayor to lead Leeds in the act of remembrance

The Lord Mayor of Leeds Councillor Abigail Marshall Katung warmly invites everyone to join her on Remembrance Sunday as she leads the city’s tribute to servicemen and women who have lost their lives in service of their country.

Lord Mayor of Leeds Armed Forces/Remembrance

Plan ahead for busiest time of year on city centre roads: Traffic management Rodley to Horsforth A6120

05 Nov 2024

Plan ahead for busiest time of year on city centre roads

Motorists travelling into Leeds are being encouraged to plan ahead for what is typically the busiest time of year on the city centre’s roads.

City centre Connecting Leeds Highways Road closures Transport