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Health leaders in Leeds join global awareness day in fight against TB: TB awareness

21 Mar 2025

Health leaders in Leeds join global awareness day in fight against TB

Health leaders in Leeds are urging people to be aware of the signs and symptoms of tuberculosis (TB) as cases continue to rise nationally.

Health

Gallery’s top award winner Angie is all art: Angie T

21 Mar 2025

Gallery’s top award winner Angie is all art

A curator’s dedication to helping young people in care play their part in ground-breaking events and exhibitions in Leeds has seen her scoop a top national award.

Angie Thompson, Leeds Art Gallery’s youth engagement curator, is the driving force behind Leeds Museums and Galleries’ innovative Care Creatives programme, which first launched in 2021.

Leeds Art Gallery Museums and galleries Arts

Leeds brown bin service resuming from next week: Brown bin garden waste

20 Mar 2025

Leeds brown bin service resuming from next week

Fortnightly garden waste collection service restarts from Monday 24 March

Bin collections/waste services Environment

Celebrate, commemorate and reflect with VE and VJ 80 Days in Leeds: VE-VJ80 in Leeds

20 Mar 2025

Celebrate, commemorate and reflect with VE and VJ 80 Days in Leeds

The Lord Mayor of Leeds invites everyone to join her in marking the commemoration of Victory in Europe and Victory over Japan with an evening of music, word, and song in May.

Lord Mayor of Leeds

New initiative transforms care for people with complex learning disabilities and autism: Small Supports picture

20 Mar 2025

New initiative transforms care for people with complex learning disabilities and autism

An innovative pilot project has transformed care for people with complex learning disabilities and autism.

Adult social care

Public consultation launches to overhaul safety at Leeds’ A58 collision hotspot: Cross Roseville Road Visualisation-3

17 Mar 2025

Public consultation launches to overhaul safety at Leeds’ A58 collision hotspot

Leeds City Council invites residents, businesses, and commuters along the A58 Roundhay Road and Barrack Road to share their views on important road safety, bus, walking, public realm and cycling proposals. The public consultation is currently open to the public and will run until 20 April 2025.

Highways Transport Connecting Leeds

People in recovery help shape new action plan to tackle drug and alcohol harm in Leeds: Drug and alcohol strategy 1

12 Mar 2025

People in recovery help shape new action plan to tackle drug and alcohol harm in Leeds

A dad-of-three who turned his life around with the help of Leeds’s drug treatment programmes is among those who have helped shape a major new five-year plan to tackle substance use harm in the city.

Health

Funding boost for Leeds as more smokers access support to quit: Stop Smoking

11 Mar 2025

Funding boost for Leeds as more smokers access support to quit

Record-breaking numbers of people are accessing Leeds Stop Smoking services for support as health leaders step up efforts to encourage more people to quit.

Health

Postal voters in Leeds to receive important information about renewing their details: Oct 2023 Postal Proxy Twitter Organic 4

11 Mar 2025

Postal voters in Leeds to receive important information about renewing their details

Messages being sent from today advising voters of need to carry out process before January 2026 deadline

Elections

Lord Mayor and High Sheriff host Iftar at Leeds Civic Hall: Iftar2025

07 Mar 2025

Lord Mayor and High Sheriff host Iftar at Leeds Civic Hall

Over two hundred guests joined the Lord Mayor of Leeds and the High Sheriff of West Yorkshire, at Leeds Civic Hall’s Banqueting Suite for a fast-breaking iftar meal on Wednesday 5 March.

Lord Mayor of Leeds

Five giant tortoises find shell-ter in Leeds: Sulcata tortoises

05 Mar 2025

Five giant tortoises find shell-ter in Leeds

A Leeds zoo has welcomed five giant tortoises this week after they grew too big for their previous home.

Tropical World