The future of rail ticketing comes to Yorkshire with smartphone-tracking fares First adopters are being offered £15 credit for trips between Leeds and Harrogate The Independent UK · Sep 29, 2025
Tony Harrison obituary Outspoken poet and dramatist admired for his stage adaptations, including The Mysteries The Guardian - UK · Sep 28, 2025
Classics with added Yorkshire class: tributes to Tony Harrison Harrison’s poetry and plays made an electrifying connection with readers and audiences through his use of Leeds dialect, and his ear for rhyme. Writers remember his greatness The Guardian - UK · Sep 28, 2025
Tony Harrison, poet and dramatist, dies aged 88 Known for his outspoken politics, the author was acclaimed for work in theatre, opera, film and TV but wanted to be thought of as a poet above all The Guardian - UK · Sep 27, 2025
Chick-Fil-A Is Coming to the UK With A Special Brits Menu Cheaper than McDonald's: Here's What's On It Chick-fil-A opens in Leeds, Liverpool, and London with a UK menu starting at £6.19 — undercutting McDonald's on key items. International Business Times UK · Sep 19, 2025
Bereaved mothers hold up 56 babygrows in ’emotional’ meeting with Wes Streeting Some of the mothers said the Health Secretary had been ‘moved, shocked, horrified and appalled’ by their stories. Evening Standard · Sep 17, 2025
Revealed: The 14 NHS trusts facing national investigation into their maternity care Leeds Teaching Hospitals and Oxford University Hospitals among the trusts to be scrutinised in Baroness Amos review The Independent UK · Sep 14, 2025
"I got put on a six-man ward, and three of them died": The trials, trauma and triumph of Dinosaur Pile-Up Following serious health issues, Leeds alt.rockers Dinosaur Pile-Up are back with their first album in six years Louder · Sep 12, 2025
Police given another week to question four held on suspicion of terrorism plot Four men were arrested at properties in Huddersfield, Leeds, Derby and West Bromwich. Evening Standard · Sep 9, 2025
Spanish police drag drunken British stag do off Ryanair flight to Alicante ‘It was carnage', said a passenger on the flight from Leeds Bradford The Independent UK · Sep 8, 2025
Four men arrested in UK on suspicion of plotting terrorism Four men from Leeds, Huddersfield, Derby and West Bromwich were arrested The Independent UK · Sep 5, 2025
New deputy Green leader describes racist abuse on family seaside trip Leeds councillor says people who threw bottles and shouted insults emboldened by rightwing rhetoric The Guardian - UK · Sep 4, 2025
Harry Brook backs Sonny Baker to bounce back from brutal England debut The talented young seamer endured a first England outing to forget in a heavy defeat to South Africa at Leeds The Independent UK · Sep 3, 2025
Leeds 0-0 Newcastle: Premier League – as it happened Minute-by-minute report: The spoils were shared after an uneventful match at Elland Road. Scott Murray was watching The Guardian - UK · Aug 30, 2025
The Independent UK · Aug 27, 2025 Chick-fil-A set to open first UK restaurant years after anti-LGBT+ controversy Chick-fil-A confirms it will open its first permanent restaurant in Leeds this autumn
The Guardian - UK · Aug 27, 2025 Families’ horror at funeral director who kept babies’ bodies at home Woman barred from Leeds mortuaries after one mother said she found dead baby propped up ‘watching’ cartoons
The Independent UK · Aug 27, 2025 UK supermarket to create hundreds of jobs after £435m investment Chancellor Rachel Reeves praised the supermarket chain’s expansion as a ‘vote of confidence’ in the UK
Evening Standard · Aug 27, 2025 Lidl to create 500 jobs after £435 million investment in warehouses Chancellor Rachel Reeves said Lidl’s investment in the warehouses in London and Leeds was a ‘vote of confidence’ in the UK.
The Independent UK · Aug 26, 2025 Will Smith’s UK tour thrown into chaos after bird strikes plane Will Smith’s plane from Leeds to Cardiff was hit by a bird as it was landing, forcing the Hollywood actor and rapper to drive instead.
International Business Times UK · Aug 26, 2025 Women Are Not Safe In Manchester: Voyeurs Film Girls Without Their Knowledge - And They Now Have Millions Of Views Similar voyeuristic nightlife accounts have been identified in London, Liverpool, and Leeds, suggesting a wider trend of targeting intoxicated or unaware women.
The Guardian - UK · Aug 25, 2025 Reading and Leeds festival review – Chappell Roan slays and Bring Me the Horizon power the circle pits Thousands of post-GCSE teens join acts from pop-poet Antony Szmierek to rap megastar Travis Scott, before Hozier blazes and Wunderhorse go off like a rocket
The Guardian - UK · Aug 18, 2025 ‘I got a nosebleed in minutes!’ How the Wedding Present’s indie banger classics inspired a musical They lit up the 80s and 90s with abrasive tracks that were like kitchen-sink dramas. But can the Wedding Present’s acerbic songs work on stage? We meet the team making it happen – and the ‘rock god’ who penned the hits
The Guardian - UK · Aug 13, 2025 Labour to revive Northern Powerhouse Rail project Starmer and Reeves expected to announce move before Labour conference, with aim of boosting backbench morale
The Guardian - UK · Aug 11, 2025 Want to know what’s going right in Britain? Come to the capital, look at the Elizabeth line railway It’s a ‘can-do’ object lesson for the Treasury. And imagine what such ambition could do for the fortunes of Birmingham, Manchester or Leeds, says author Jonn Elledge
The Guardian - UK · Aug 11, 2025 ‘I don’t expect to live a normal life’: how a Leeds teenager woke up with a Chinese bounty on her head After speaking out about the suppression of Hong Kong’s protests, Chloe Cheung was targeted by Beijing, followed on the street and abused online. Yet she remains defiant