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New arrival set to become a familiar face at Temple Newsam's Home Farm: Batley Charlotte Gray-4

23 Oct 2026

New arrival set to become a familiar face at Temple Newsam's Home Farm

A young Shire horse has become the latest resident at Temple Newsam's Home Farm, where she will begin training for a future role helping to bring traditional farming practices to life for visitors.

Parks and countryside Temple Newsam Home Farm

Full route is revealed for 2027 Grand Départ in Leeds: Tour de France Femmes

22 Oct 2026

Full route is revealed for 2027 Grand Départ in Leeds

Preparations for the Grand Départ of the 2027 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift moved up a gear today as full details of the route that cyclists will follow through Leeds were revealed.

Leisure and sport Events

Love letter to Leeds set to captivate thousands this Light Night: Call My Name, Call Me Home by imitating the dog

22 Oct 2026

Love letter to Leeds set to captivate thousands this Light Night

A beautiful ode to memories of a life lived in Leeds will take centre stage as one of the major projections at Light Night Leeds next week.

Transforming the façade of The Queens Hotel, ‘Call My Name, Call Me Home’ combines song and story in a moving celebration of belonging and the places that shape a life.

Light Night Events Arts

Housing upgrade milestone is heartwarming news for Holbeck: Heart of Holbeck 1

21 Oct 2026

Housing upgrade milestone is heartwarming news for Holbeck

A major package of improvement work on back-to-back terraced homes – part of wider efforts to make the Holbeck area of Leeds a healthier, greener and better-connected place to live – has reached a key milestone.

Housing Regeneration

Vision Zero: be bright this October: Leeds Vision Zero col

21 Oct 2026

Vision Zero: be bright this October

Leeds City Council’s Vision Zero campaign is urging motorists and pedestrians to ‘be bright’ this October to help reduce the risk of deaths and serious injuries on the city’s roads.

Connecting Leeds Transport

New Children’s Mayor of Leeds elected on mental health manifesto: Leeds Children's Mayor

21 Oct 2026

New Children’s Mayor of Leeds elected on mental health manifesto

Leeds schoolchildren have elected a new Children’s Mayor of Leeds with a manifesto focusing on mental health support. 

Child Friendly Leeds Lord Mayor of Leeds Children

Northern Square Mile board launches with new financial innovation programme: 26 Northern Square Mile (49)

20 Oct 2026

Northern Square Mile board launches with new financial innovation programme

Press release published in partnership with the West Yorkshire Combined Authority

Senior leaders from banking, financial technology, professional services, academia and the public sector met yesterday for the first time as the Northern Square Mile board.

Inclusive growth Economy

Artwork by children in Leeds foster families will shine bright at Light Night: Foster 4 Leeds Light Night 1

20 Oct 2026

Artwork by children in Leeds foster families will shine bright at Light Night

Children living in foster care in Leeds will see their artwork go up in lights for a new installation at next week’s Light Night Leeds.

Fostering Light Night

Major careers and training fair taking over first direct bank arena: Careers in Leeds-12

19 Oct 2026

Major careers and training fair taking over first direct bank arena

A new major careers and training fair will take place in Leeds next month, bringing together the city’s leading employers, training providers and support organisations in a wide showcase of careers, jobs and skills.

jobs and skills

Museum’s incredible Ice Age predators worth bearing in mind: Ice Age remains-10

19 Oct 2026

Museum’s incredible Ice Age predators worth bearing in mind

An ancient bear which roamed the UK thousands of years ago is among the fearsome prehistoric predators whose remains are being conserved by experts in Leeds.

Excavated from the depth of an Irish cave in the 1860s, the impressive skull once belonged to a huge type of extinct brown bear and today resides at Leeds Discovery Centre alongside other astonishing megafauna from the Pleistocene era.

Museums and galleries Arts