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Andrew Edwards presented his last BBC Radio Leeds show on Sunday, November 5, 2023. Pictured at the The Yorkshire Evening Post Carol Service 2022, photograph taken by Jonathan Gawthorpe.

Andrew Edwards broadcasts final show on BBC Leeds

BBC Radio Leeds presenter Andrew Edwards.

BBC Radio Leeds presenter Andrew Edwards is leaving station he joined in 1993

Ben Preston was previously head gardener at York Gate Garden in Adel

Yorkshire garden centre to re-open after young couple restore derelict nursery

BBC Radio Leeds' Rima Ahmed is one of eight local journalists who will pick up the award for their damning Lizz Truss interviews

BBC Radio Leeds' Rima Ahmed to win award for damning Lizz Truss interview

The Awakening Carnival dancers. Picture: Tom Joy

Four star review of Leeds 2023 opening ceremony The Awakening

LEEDS, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 23: Joe Gelhardt and Sam Greenwood of Leeds United applaud the fans following the Premier League match between Leeds United and Fulham FC at Elland Road on October 23, 2022 in Leeds, England. (Photo by George Wood/Getty Images)

Former Leeds United defender asks Joe Gelhardt and Willy Gnonto question

Liz Truss became Prime Minister earlier this month. Picture: Victoria Jones/PA Wire

Liz Truss backs tax-cutting plan and fracking in testing local radio interviews

Yasmin Dawes, Jasmine Franks, Rebecca Tebbett in rehearsal for Shakers at Hull Truck.

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Pictured after the opening are: L-R Sir Michael, Mr. William Greaves, Regional TV manager and Dr. Patrick Nutgens, Chairman, BBC North Advisory Council, with Mr. Howard Brookbank, senior engineer (front) showing the group the main control consul in the control room. Photo: Peter Thacker

Letter: Researcher needs your help to unearth BBC Radio Leeds immigration series...

RAPHINHA: Is under contract at Leeds United until 2024. Picture: Getty Images.

Raphinha addresses his Leeds contract situation after late January interest

Walsall's Brendan Kiernan holds off Oscar Threlkeld of Bradford City. (Photo by George Wood/Getty Images)

Bradford City v Colchester United: Bantams hoping to reap rewards after break

DAVID FIFITA: Is in the final year of his Wakefield Trinity contract. Picture: Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com

David Fifita yet to make decision on Wakefield Trinity future

f John Stonehouse, a Labour MP who faked his own death, spent months secretly rehearsing his new identity, according to official papers made public Thursday December 29, 2005. Stonehouse - a former minister - famously staged his disappearance from Miami Beach on November 20 1974 amid the collapse of a series of fraudulent businesses which he had set up.

BBC Radio Leeds and its debt to runaway MP John Stonehouse – Yorkshire Post Lett...

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Who is conservative presenter Alex Belfield - and what's happened to him?

Elland Road, the home of Leeds United Football Club. (Photo by Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images)

Leeds United 'in the spotlight' for £17m-rated midfielder as Whites target sees ...

Radio presenter Zoe Ball.

Goodbye to 50s and 60s music on BBC Radio – Yorkshire Post Letters

IN TALKS: Wakefield Trinity are looking to bring Tony Gigot to Belle Vue. Picture: Isabel Pearce/SWpix.com.

Wakefield Trinity in talks with ex-Catalans Dragons star Tony Gigot

Keeley and Johnny married in 2018 on a farm in Knaresborough

BBC Look North presenter Keeley Donovan announces birth of first baby

Tim Crowther, third from right, has worked for BBC Radio Leeds since the 1970s

Fans petition BBC Radio Leeds to bring back out-of-contract gardening presenter ...

Welcome to Yorkshire chief executive James Mason

Welcome to Yorkshire chief executive playing 'game of survival' for region's to...

Charlotte Armitage Picture Tony Johnson.

Charlotte Armitage: Why we must praise work of BBC and Emmerdale in placing disa...
This week YAFTA and BBC Radio Leeds hosted a ‘Disability in the Media – Our Screen of Influence’ panel event at Mind the Gap studios in Bradford.

Dave Callaghan

The cast and crew of Partition

Radio play inpsired by Partition takes to the stage

PAST AND PRESENT: The cast of Nick Ahads play Coming Home Together which toured schools in West Yorkshire.

History play

CLASSICS REIMAGINED: Reece Dinsdale, above, takes the lead in The Master Builder and Sally Cookson, inset, directs The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

Curtain up

Wakefield Trinity Wildcats' Belle Vue stadium

Wakefield Trinity chairman Michael Carter admits franchise sale could happen in ...

Shaun McKenna is giving his moss overgrown field some attention.

Living the Dream: Slot on the airwaves gives us pause for thought

Collective memory

Nick Ahad: Why even in the deepest tragedy love always wins in the end

Kes at the West Yorkshire Playhouse

Nick Ahad: Coming to you live

Kit Harington is attracting livelier audiences than usual in a new production of Dr Faustus.

Nick Ahad: Why us oldies need to make way for a new generation of theatre-goers

Martin Kelner. Picture by Simon Hulme

Martin Kelner makes Leeds radio return on Ken Bates' station
A RADIO station set up by former Leeds United owner Ken Bates has snapped up popular Yorkshire disc jockey Martin Kelner less than a fortnight after he was sacked by the BBC.

We are in danger of losing voices like Julie Walters if acting is allowed to become the preserve of the posh.

Nick Ahad: Why the acting world needs more Julie Walters and Peter O'Tooles

Joe Maiden

Death of radio gardening guru Joe Maiden

Labour’s plans to axe ‘non dom’ status for the wealthy described as ‘shambles’

Nick Ahad: The arts world may soon be open only to the privileged few

Ken Bates

Ken Bates wins radio rights to Leeds United matches

Ken Bates

‘£500,000 bill’ as Ken Bates and Leeds settle out of court

Claire Hunter-Smith

My Passion With Claire Hunter-Smith

Ken Bates

‘Radio Ken’ goes quiet as Leeds pull plug on Yorkshire station

Harry Gration

Video: I shed a few tears says TV veteran Harry Gration

Graham MacKay looks to pass as Vaughan Going holds on and Craig Emmerson jumps behind.

Sporting Bygones: Rawlinson savoured ‘massive’ changes and challenges Leeds face...

Medical workers aid injured people at the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon following an explosion

Boston carnage: Yorkshire tourists caught up in blasts horror

Richard Sutcliffe: Radio's own goal as Bantams are relegated from airwaves

Cancer patients taking to the catwalk

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