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Children and young people can look forward to fun times in the great outdoors as Leeds’s annual Breeze In The Park entertainment programme returns for another summer.

Leeds City Council’s aquatic training scheme has brought home six medals from the European Junior Championships that took place earlier this month.

They were the boisterous barroom ballads that once rattled the rafters of Victorian music halls across Leeds.

Now librarians are calling on the city’s modern-day musicians and singers to help them bring an incredible collection of vintage sheet music to life for the first time in more than a century.

Semi-final against Italy to be shown live on the big screen

Applications are now open for grassroots organisations to apply for funding to deliver impactful change in their communities.

Leeds is getting its own seaside resort this summer, complete with beach huts, a pier and a fairground.

The skeletal remains of a giant bird which last walked the earth more than 500 years ago have been given a clean bill of health by museum curators in Leeds.

The incredibly rare and complete bones of the heavy-footed moa, a huge flightless bird which once roamed parts of New Zealand, were carefully cleaned by experts at Leeds City Museum this week.

The event is expected to attract over 60,000 people as the city centre is transformed with a colourful parade on Sunday 20 July.

Over four weeks starting on Monday 28 July 2025, road repairs and resurfacing works will take place on the Stanningley Bypass, as part of the £44.179m Dawsons Corner and Stanningley Bypass improvement scheme.

Some of Leeds’ most popular parks have been awarded the Green Flag Award after being recognised as being of international quality.

See our highlights for brilliant free and low-cost things to do with your family over the summer school holidays in our museums, galleries, zoos, estates, parks, and libraries.

First summer events wow Millennium Square crowds