By Hayley Longster
Plans to provide extra funding for the expansion of West Yorkshire Playhouse have been approved by Leeds City Council at an Executive Board meeting today.
The plans follow the recent announcement that Leeds will bid to become a European Capital of Culture in 2023.
By Emma Kirwan
A Leeds theatre company has raised more than £25,000 in one year after having its primary source of funding stopped.
Save Red Ladder was set up as an independent campaign after Red Ladder, the UK’s leading radical theatre company, had all of its funding from the Arts Council stopped on 1 July 2014.
Read More »Leeds theatre company fights back after having funding stopped
by David Mackie
A sixth man has now been arrested following a hit-and-run incident in Leeds, which resulted in the death of 25-year-old James Gilbey.
Police have arrested the 29-year-old man on suspicion of assisting an offender after he handed himself in at a police station in West Yorkshire.Read More »UPDATE: Sixth man arrested in Stanningley hit-and-run
The weather in Leeds should stay warm and dry all day today – which bodes well for the rest of the summer.
According to legend, the weather on St Swithun’s Day (July 15) will continue for forty days.
By Mike Berriman
Leeds United have not one, but two fixtures tonight as Uwe Rosler looks to give his squad a more intensive workout before they fly to Austria next week.
The Whites will be sending two sides to York and Tadcaster as they aim to improve on what was a less than impressive performance at Harrogate last time out.Read More »Leeds United step up their pre-season preparation with trips to York and Tadcaster tonight
by Hayley Longster
With the news that Leeds will bid to become a European Capital of Culture in 2023, arts organisations around the city have been offering their support for the bid.
Read More »Arts organisations rally round 2023 European Capital of Culture Bid
A £10 million Park & Ride system is planned for Leeds following the success of a similar site at Elland road.
Tomorrow, plans for developing the one-thousand space Temple Green Park & Ride site, adjacent to the A63 Pontefract Lane will be discussed in front of the council cabinet.
A selfless husband and father, suffering from a tumour in his leg, has been overwhelmed by the offers of help after his neighbour posted a request for aid on a community Facebook page.
Read More »Leeds community rallies round to help man with tumour
by Hayley Longster
Some of the UK’s finest young championship boxing talent will compete in a major event at the First Direct Arena on September 5.
The main event will feature Josh Warrington face off with Joel Brunkner for the WBC international and commonwealth featherweight title.
Women in Leeds are being urged to be aware of breast cancer symptoms in a campaign launched today by Public Health England (PHE).
Almost two-hundred women aged seventy and over in Leeds are diagnosed with breast cancer each year; last year more than five-hundred women in Yorkshire and the Humber died of breast cancer, according to PHE Leeds.
Read More »Breast cancer: lumps are not the only symptom, say campaigners