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Leeds looked stunning last night as the city’s annual dazzling light festival returned for the first of its two nights.

A two-hundred-year-old book of prophecies foretold centuries ago by a famous Yorkshire soothsayer is among the spine-tingling texts being researched by librarians in Leeds this Halloween.

The curious tome is part of Leeds City Library’s special collections and is filled with a remarkable series of predictions once made by legendary fortune-teller and mystic Mother Shipton.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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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.

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.