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Always a warm welcome at Paisley Lodge.

Leeds care home unveils new specialist dementia community

Mark Ambler, 42, of no fixed address, has been jailed after he was caught in an elderly dementia patient’s bedroom at a Leeds care home.

Yorkshire burglar jailed for breaking into dementia patient's bedroom

Firefighters have been called out to West Yorkshire’s prisons 70 times since April, Councillors have been told.

Firefighters called out to West Yorkshire’s prisons 70 times since April

UNKLE at Project House, Leeds. Picture: Andrew Dawson

Gig review: UNKLE at Project House, Leeds

Special Report: the route West Yorkshire's tram project could take

Armley Leeds fire: Crime scene investigators to attend after all emergency services deal with huge blaze

Armley Leeds fire: Crime scene investigators to attend after huge blaze

West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service was called shortly before 9pm on Wednesday to a report of a derelict building fire on Theaker Lane, Armley, Leeds.

Ten fire crews and all emergency services at scene of major fire in Leeds

Courts round-up: TV director who groomed teen avoids prison

Claudiu-Carol Kondor tragically died on August 20, 2024.

32-year-old admits killing delivery driver in Leeds

Canal Mills, in Brandon Street, Leeds.

More than 100 homes set to be built on site of former mill complex

Mr Kondor was pronounced dead at the scene in Heights Drive, Wortley, on Tuesday evening (Aug 20) after his silver Ford Transit Cargo van was stolen in Alliance Street while he was making a delivery.West Yorkshire Police/PA Wire

Man charged with murder over death of delivery driver Claudiu-Carol Kondor

Firefighters were called to a building fire at Canal Mills, Armley just after 5am this morning (28 July).

Canal Mills, Armley: 12 fire engines at scene of blaze as residents warned

A total of 50 new homes are currently being built on a brownfield site off Moorfield Road in Armley that was formerly occupied by the Tower Works factory.

Former Yorkshire factory site set for new lease of life as affordable housing

Leeds families urged to take part in “The Kindness Climb” in support of the NSPCC.

Families urged to take part in “The Kindness Climb” in support of the NSPCC

The NSPCC is calling on families in Leeds to take part in its second indoor climbing competition in support of the children’s charity.

Stephanie Bateman

Nial O'Neill, who has worked with SBFM as a cleaner and has now begun work as a call handler. Photo by Karol Wyszynski.

Yorkshire cleaning firm aims to open career opportunities for ex-offenders

Viaduct Road in Armley has been closed by police

Long queues as busy road is closed during rush hour due to 'police incident'

BUILDING BLOCKS: Josh Wisher has been fristrated in his latest professional bout after it was cancelled, but is striving to build something special through his gym in Armley, Leeds. (Picture: James Bovington)

Leeds boxer on why community matters inside and outside the ring

Police at the scene in Salisbury Grove Armley, where a 17-year-old boy was fatally stabbed at a house party.

Boy, 17, stabbed to death at house party

Elychia Watson playing for the Leeds Rhinos Women team. (Pic credit: Elychia Watson)

Leeds Rhinos Women player says women’s rugby is ‘evolving massively’

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer arrives at UCL at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London with Shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves

What Keir Starmer's five missions mean for Yorkshire: Rachel Reeves

Edward Marshall of the Bradford-based Nano Park Company

New Armley Nano Park development fully let in 'record time'

New plans for canal-side homes on Leeds-Liverpool canal could see Canal Mills demolished

Plans for homes on Leeds-Liverpool canal could see Canal Mills demolished

Filming is underway for a new TV advert for famous Armley retailer Mike’s Carpets – starring the owner Mike Smith 40 years on from the original Yorkshire TV hits.

Mike's Carpets: Filming begins for new advert starring famous owner 40 years on

Mike's Carpets in Leeds set to reopen under same name by brothers inspired by childhood TV adverts

Mike's Carpets in Leeds set to reopen under same name by entrepreneur brothers

Artist Tom Crowe, from Swillington, pictured with the new Leeds United Supporters Trust Vinnie Jones mural at Whingate Junction in Armley, Leeds.

First pictures of new mural dedicated to Leeds United cult hero in Armley

A new giant mural depicting Leeds United cult hero Vinnie Jones has been unveiled in Leeds.

Joseph Keith

The Nano Park Company bought a one-acre site off Pickering Street, Armley for £300,000 from the Yorkshire textile company James Hare in March 2020.

Channel 4's arrival is kick-starting creative revival, say bosses at Nano Park

Natalie Well, general manager of the Howarth Foundation, right, with Andy Howarth, who founded the charity, left, at the Hidden Owls shop.

Why business bosses are being urged to give job opportunities to the homeless

Alan Bennett

A middle-class jamboree, or is culture worth every penny? – David Behrens

Value for money and a vibrant community are attracting buyers to Chapeltown

Why Chapeltown in Leeds is now a UK property hotspot

Customers will be able to recycle used disposable face masks in 150 Wilko stores across the country.

Which Wilko stores in Yorkshire recycle disposable face masks?

Prisoners at HMP Leeds have started a fundraising project for homelessness charity Simon On The Streets

HMP Leeds inmates fundraise to support city's rough sleepers

Andy Howarth and Chris Sylvester at The Howarth Foundation are preparing to open a charity shop in Armley.

How the Howarth Foundation is looking to help the homeless with a shop in Armley

Alan Bennett.

Alan Bennett reveals health struggles and bookshop tribute in annual diaries

Edna Bates

Yorkshire's oldest volunteer finally retires - aged 100

Leeds West MP Rachel Reeves - a senior Shadow Cabinet member - is challenging the Government to do more to protect jobs put at risk by Covid-19.

Labour’s five pandemic priorities this Yorkshire Day – Rachel Reeves

A government worker that is part of a combined taskforce tackling COVID-19 coronavirus fumigates a neighbourhood as part of safety precautions, in Yemen's capital Sanaa.

From Armley to Yemen, an aid worker’s journey and Covid-19 SOS – Jonathan Cunlif...

A fish pass is being built at Kirkstall Weir (Photo: Environment Agency)

Footage shows River Aire salmon pass under construction

Steve and Angie Morley with their daughters Nicola and Lisa.

Popular pub karaoke host brings music and dancing outside with socially-distant ...

HMP Leeds in Armley is going into "lockdown", according to the POA union.

Prisons including HMP Leeds in Armley to be put into "immediate lockdown"

A new Nano Park is planned in Armley near Leeds

50 jobs could be created at planned office and workshop park in Leeds

Parkside Lodge is based on Stanningley Road in Armley.

Leeds NHS treatment unit for people with severe mental health difficulties may c...

Hayden Lee Jessop with the shipping container, which he is converting into a temporary home for the homeless. Aiden Ramsdale, in the background, is a current service user of Hayden's charity Vulnerable Citizen Support Leeds

This Leeds man is turning a shipping container into a home for the homeless and ...

Grandfather Mike Bell, of West Tanfield near Ripon, is a double amputee who struggles to access public transport. Image: Gary Longbottom

Yorkshire grandfather Mike Bell - 'I can understand how it can be lonely, living...

Alan Bennett. Picture: Bruce Rollinson.

Leeds-born playwright Alan Bennett reveals open heart surgery and praises NHS me...

Iggy Pop performing at the 2011 Isle of Wight Festival (Left). Photo: Anthony Devlin/ PA Wire Mik Artistik pictured at his home in Armley (Right). Photo: Simon Hulme

Iggy Pop's song of decade is by band from Armley

Boris Johnson

This is why Prime Minister Boris Johnson was in Leeds today

David Wood, Anchors community partnership manager with Val Ashford, Ann Paul and Maureen Jones, residents at Halcyon Court care home in in Cliff Road, Headingley. Pensioners living at Halcyon Court - along with residents at Beech Hall in Armley, and Oak Tree Lodge in Gipton - have designed postcards that will be placed in community hubs across the city. The aim is for people to send the postcards back to the residents so they can start writing to each other. Picture: Tony Johnson

Pensioners at Leeds care homes in pen pal project to fight loneliness

Barclays' offices at Millshaw Court, Beeston, Leeds. Picture: JPI Media

Leeds jobs at risk as Barclays relocate hundreds of staff

British Gas are set to close their offices and training centre on Canal Street in Armley, it announced today.

British Gas to close Canal Street offices in Armley, Leeds

Heron Foods in Armley. (Pic: Google)

Heron Foods withdraws Armley alcohol application in the middle of a meeting

Green Hill Road in Armley, at its junction with Cockshott Lane. Picture: Google.

Man taken to hospital after fire breaks out at flat in Leeds

Heron Foods in Town Street. (Credit: Google)

Authorities advise against Heron Foods' Armley alcohol licence

Is your pooch a troublemaker?

Strays, attacks and fouling – what the statistics say about Leeds dogs

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