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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.

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

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

The Leader of Leeds City Council and guests joined the Lord Mayor of Leeds for an iftar meal on Wednesday, 4 March at the Civic Hall’s Banqueting Suite.

Flamboyant floral creations have burst into life this spring in a new exhibition paying tribute to the unique beauty of the natural world.

Botanically Beautiful: Art and Design Inspired by Nature at Lotherton explores how colourful depictions of flowers, fruits, leaves and trees have taken root in the worlds of art, design and fashion, inspiring a vast array of eye-catching works across history.

Leeds City Council has today announced details of the process it will follow while dealing with an application from Leeds Bradford Airport relating to night-time flying.

Tom McLoughlin MBE, the man described as the ‘father of the Irish Community in Leeds' has been presented with one of the city’s top awards by Leeds City Council.

A trailblazing female wrestler and a famous gorilla are among the enthralling Leeds stories being brought into focus in a picture-perfect new exhibition.

In the Picture at Abbey House Museum features a selection of objects, thought-provoking paintings and photographs drawn from the vast Leeds Museums and Galleries collection.

Final go-ahead is expected to be given for work to start on a major new £15million sports hub in Holbeck at Leeds City Council’s executive board meeting next week (11 March).

Leeds City Council today unveil a unique hand-carved oak bench, created from a tree previously located near Otley Bridge, in Tittybottle Park.

Leeds City Council’s leisure centres are partnering with a Paralympian-founded fitness app to make fitness and physical activity more inclusive across the city.

A pair of antique library books written by a renowned 19^th century geologist have finally been returned 50 years late.

Volumes I and II of the esteemed Rev. William Buckland’s Geology and Mineralogy, written almost 200 years ago, were due back at Leeds Central Library in March 1976, but were instead discovered by staff in a charity shop in Beverley, East Yorkshire.