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Horsforth Cemetery Chapel.

'Under-used and too expensive' - Council to sell historic cemetery chapels
Four historic cemetery chapels are set to be sold at auction to raise funds for Leeds City Council.

Worsfold is charged with murdering his one-month-old baby following an incident on Lincombe Drive six years ago.

Father denies murdering one-month-old son in Yorkshire in 2020

Conlon (left) and Brown (right) were jailed for stealing puppies from a woman's home in the middle of the night.

Dog killed by police car after she chased thieves stealing her puppies

A view of the Leeds Skyline from Beeston, Leeds Picture taken by Yorkshire Post Photographer Simon Hulme 28th August 2025

Library service to cease iPad scheme after thefts

The counterfeit notes seized by police

Money laundering arrests after £10,000 in fake notes discovered

Leeds HMP is a 'cluster site' for self-inflicted deaths, the report states.

'Critical concern' over number of self-inflicted deaths at HMP Leeds

Thomas Tuchel (left) is confident Rice will be available to face Mexico (Nick Potts/PA)

List of Yorkshire pubs opening late for England v Mexico

Jimmy Marshall, co-director of the Nano Park Company.

Nano Park Company: 50 new jobs expected as development completed

Mistress Lane. Pic By Leeds City Council.

More than 30 apartments and houses could be built on vacant land in Leeds

Alfie Doyle.

Police hunting 21-year-old man with 'LUFC' and 'Fearless' tattoos

Global Food Store

Leeds grocery store refused licence over street drinking fears

A crime scene cordoned off by emergency services.

Police appeal as teenager struck 'deliberately' in Leeds hit and run

Chris Corcoran, standing by the fire place which remains from when Barbara Taylor Bradford was a child. Picture: Jonathan Gawthorpe.

'Inspiring': Meet the couple who live in a Leeds literary icon's childhood home

Large emergency services response to wasteyard fire in Leeds as residents urged to keep doors and windows shut

Ten crews tackle huge blaze at Leeds wasteyard

The gravestone of Robert Morrow has been rediscovered at a museum in Leeds

Gravestone of forgotten Leeds railway pioneer is rediscovered

Strawberry Lane Community Centre. Google image.

Community centre given £365k price after being put up for auction by council

Retired goalkeeper David Stockdale is overseeing the launch of FC Farsley Sports Club.

Exclusive David Stockdale outlines his vision for FC Farsley Sports Club

St Bartholomew's CofE Primary School in Armley, Leeds released a statement on social media on Wednesday morning.

Yorkshire school without 'heating or lighting' forced to close on Wednesday

HMP Leeds currently holds 1,088 inmates, despite only housing regular capacity for 641 men.

'Endemic levels' of drug use in prisons is endangering lives, MPs say

Katy Padam in Phuket

‘I went on holiday for my 40th birthday - and never returned home’

Milad Fathy was found dead in his cell at HMP Leeds in Armley.

Death of 25-year-old man at HMP Leeds sparks investigations
West Yorkshire Police has launched an investigation into the death of a 25-year-old man who died at HMP Leeds.
Rachael Grealish

Mike Smith the owner of Mike's Carpets at his Armley branch, Leeds. Credit: Graham Lindley

Mike Smith obituary: Face of the famous Mike's Carpets adverts dead at 79

Resident and care home colleague in outdoor area of HC-One care home

Armley care home prepares to celebrate ‘The Big Summer Weekender’ as part of Car...

Leeds Baby Bank trustees Faye Freeman and Laura Bennett

Urgent appeal to open doors to new Leeds Baby Bank centre

Stephen Gedge and Billy Birdsall have both been jailed

Drug dealers who forced vulnerable people to work for 16 hours jailed

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

Killer thief showed ‘contempt’ for delivery driver’s life, court hears

Officers from West Yorkshire Police arrested a total of five people for offences linked to the drugs trade.

Watch: West Yorkshire Police seize £1.6m worth of cannabis plants

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

Delivery driver killed ‘when thief hit car to stop him hanging on van’

Lyndsey Craven and her son Daniel Becic

Police appeal over missing woman and her eight-year-old son

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Morgan Sindall to start on affordable extra care housing scheme in Leeds

Wilks (left) was found guilty at Leeds Crown Court of the manslaughter of Jamie Meah (pictured right)

Member of drugs gang who encouraged killing of teenager jailed

Stall is Citu's latest development and is situated in Kirkstall, Leeds.

What it's really like to live in Yorkshire's newest eco neighbourhood
When Pete and Jane Zanzottera moved into Citu’s newest eco development six months ago it changed their lives in some unexpected ways.
Lizzie Murphy

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.

Breaking 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

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

Mike Smith became a familiar face after his successful TV adverts in the 1980s.

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

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

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