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Road Safety Week: Stark figures highlight impact of deaths and serious injuries on district’s roads: Road Safety Week 600x338

20 Nov 2024

Road Safety Week: Stark figures highlight impact of deaths and serious injuries on district’s roads

An average of one person every month is killed and more than one seriously injured every day on roads in Leeds, latest figures show.

Highways

New homes set to ease housing pressures and give helping hand to local families: Hough Top

19 Nov 2024

New homes set to ease housing pressures and give helping hand to local families

Construction work is set to start on a scheme that will ease housing pressures in Leeds by providing dozens of affordable council homes.

Housing

Garden waste collections to pause for the winter: Brown bin with leaves

15 Nov 2024

Garden waste collections to pause for the winter

Brown bin collections in Leeds are going into their usual annual winter hibernation after 30 November.

Bin collections/waste services

Report highlights city’s innovative work to create healthier homes:  health and housing cropped

13 Nov 2024

Report highlights city’s innovative work to create healthier homes

A new report has highlighted promising results being achieved by work in Leeds to improve people's health through better housing.

Health Housing

Mural tribute planned for city’s unsung sports stars: Kadeena-4

13 Nov 2024

Mural tribute planned for city’s unsung sports stars

A record-breaking local swimmer and a legendary Leeds Paralympian are among the city’s unsung sporting heroes set to be honoured in series of eye-catching new murals.

Doris Storey, who smashed the record for the 220yds breaststroke in 1938, and Kadeena Cox, who has brought home a remarkable string of Paralympic gold medals in sprinting and cycling, have been chosen by a panel of volunteers to be commemorated in the exciting new arts project.

Museums and galleries Leeds City Museum Arts

Honour for fallen Leeds servicemen after library’s historic photo find: Christmas Eve3

11 Nov 2024

Honour for fallen Leeds servicemen after library’s historic photo find

Photographs of three Leeds soldiers killed during the Second World War and laid to rest in a cemetery in The Netherlands have been placed before their graves thanks to librarians in their home city.

Pictures of Lance Corporal Herbert Alan Young, teenager Private John Keddie and Sapper Walter Marshall have been laid at the CWGC Venray War Cemetery as part of a moving commemoration event held by local residents.

Libraries