Debra Coupar

The U1 number plate that is being put up for sale. PIC: James Hardisty

The U1 number plate should not be for sale - YP Letters
From: Martin J Dodgson MBE, Thwing, Driffield.

Leeds Town Hall.

Leeds City Council agrees £100m in budget savings

10th August 1970: Former women's world cycle champion Beryl Burton of Britain takes the bronze medal in the 3,000 metres pursuit during the World Cycling Championships in Leicester. (Photo by Nevill Chadwick/Keystone/Getty Images)

Inspirational women from Leeds finally have their names etched into history

Moon Palace

East Leeds Social Enterprise celebrates funding boost

Fireworks were thrown at police during the disorder in 2020

Six men sentenced after officers pelted with bricks and fireworks

Leeds Council is having to make huge savings over the next five years

Leeds Council must make £270m of savings over next five years

Beryl Burton OBE: (centre) the English racing cyclist who dominated the sport in the UK and abroad, winning more than 90 domestic championships and seven world titles and setting numerous national records.

Names of Leeds' women trailblazers could be added to council chamber

Leeds taxi drivers protested against the minor motoring offences policy ahead of its introduction in the summer of 2022.

Leeds taxi drivers at risk of losing their licences due to new rules

Revelers during the Leeds Festival 2022 at Bramham Park in Leeds. (Photo credit: Danny Lawson/PA Wire)

Leeds Festival must ‘improve’ after tragic death of a teenager

Debra Coupar, Leeds City Council’s deputy leader,.

Quality of school meals in Yorkshire academies criticised

There has been a shock result in the Leeds Council elections.

SDP wins first council seat in Leeds for 34 years in shock result

Leeds City Council, advised by Cushman & Wakefield, has completed the sale of building one and Units 5 to 7 at Logic Leeds for £29.3 million.

Leeds City Council hails 'triple win' as it completes £29.3m property sale

A protest held in Holbeck in 2018 in opposition to the Managed Approach to on-street sex work. Picture: Jonathan Gawthorpe

Was Leeds legal red light zone a failure? Here's what a leading councillor said

Coun Debra Coupar, deputy leader of Leeds City Council, stressed the Managed Approach would not be relocated to another part of the city. Picture: Tony Johnson

Leeds red light zone closure: Council to end Managed Approach in Holbeck

Low-income homeowners in Leeds can now apply for free solar panels and insulation, thanks to the Government's Green Homes Grant scheme, and working with Better Homes Yorkshire. Photo credit: JPIMedia

Leeds families urged to apply for green homes grant to help fight climate change

Voice of Holbeck has published its Listening Well Report about the impact of the city council's Managed Approach to on-street sex work. Picture: Simon Hulme

'Community in crisis' - New Leeds red light zone report

The East Lodge at Temple Newsam.

Covid-19 pandemic ‘an excuse’ to get rid of Temple Newsam east lodge, councillor...

The site was formerly known as City Reach.

New residential site on Kirkstall Road in Leeds snapped up

Lewis died after going swimming in a stretch of the River Aire off Redcote Lane in Kirkstall, police confirmed.

'We are devastated': Tributes paid to Leeds teacher who died after swimming in K...

Street sex workers were temporarily banned fromtradingin Leeds' managed approach zone when the lockdown was announced. Picture: Adobe Stock Images

Leeds' sex workers will "continue to be supported" throughout the lockdown, coun...

The meeting heard claims that the council's housing stock has plummeted by 40,000 since the early 1980s.

Leeds councillors call for changes to right-to-buy laws
A Leeds councillor has suggested the government’s “right to buy” scheme should be extended to privately-rented homes.
Richard Beecham

Leeds has seen a dramatic reduction in empty properties across the city.

Number of long-term empty buildings in Leeds plummets by nearly a third in 10 ye...

Firefighters outside Sherburn Court in Leeds, where sprinklers have been installed.

Sprinklers are being rolled out to 37 high-rise blocks in Leeds in the wake of G...

The organisers behind Leeds Tent City have set up a fundraising campaign to create a shipping container village for the homeless. Photo: Vulnerable Citizen Support Go Fund Me page.

Leeds Tent City organisers start fundraising campaign for ‘homeless shipping con...

A survey counted 33 rough sleepers in Leeds City Centre last November.

Leeds Council deputy leader says rough sleeping stats hide "hidden homeless" pro...

Coun Debra Coupar.

People will be sleeping on the streets of Leeds until we fix addictions and ment...

A camp set up for the homeless on the old International Pool site in Leeds. It has now been taken down.

The five ways Leeds City Council aims to prevent homelessness and cut rough slee...

Coun Debra Coupar.

Leeds council chief welcomes Â£100m Labour plan for rough sleeper accommodation

The raid in St Wilfrids Avenue in September.

Closure orders for trouble-spot flats in Leeds after police drugs raid

Leeds City Council's full council meeting voted in favour of the amendment by Coun Coupar

Calls backed for independent review into future of Britain's first 'legal' red l...

Â£55m to be spent on 358 new council houses Leeds

Leeds announced as home of groundbreaking NHS clinic for gambling addiction
Leeds has been chosen as the home of England's first NHS clinic outside London for people suffering from gambling addiction.
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Universal Credit was rolled out in Leeds in October.

Councillors to call for an end to Universal Credit

'I need protection': Retracing steps of refugee to Leeds after fleeing Ethiopia ...

A man on Boar Lane, Leeds.

Big Change Leeds: What the new way of helping the city's homeless aims to do

Leeds City Council is spending 10m on sprinklers for the 116 tower blocks in the city.

Government 'refused to help' fund Leeds tower block sprinklers

Cottingley Towers, where the fire broke out on Monday

Sprinkler systems working in six Leeds Council tower blocks - but not Cottingley...

Fire crews outside the flats, where the sprinklers were not working

Sprinkler system was not switched on at Leeds Cottingley Towers flats when fire ...

PIC: Jonathan Gawthorpe (Photo is for illustration purposes only)

New pledge on Leeds homes which have been empty for decades

Leeds.

Leeds and Sheffield braces for next Universal Credit roll-out

Leeds.

Leeds and Sheffield braced for next Universal Credit roll-out

PIC: James Hardisty

Trojan Bus crackdown tackles stone throwing incidents in Leeds

Suspected loan shark arrested in Leeds after warrant executed

Coun Debra Coupar, Leeds District Commander Paul Money and Sgt Lucy Leadbeater.

Leeds Lives Not Knives message taken into community

Kauser Jan and Sarah Lloyd, right, have worked together to raise awareness of the dangers of carrying knives.

Mum of teenager murdered in Harehills supports 'Leeds Lives Not Knives' events t...

CCTV footage shows members of the gang stealing a motorbike in Leeds.

Gone in 10 seconds: CCTV footage shows Leeds motorbike thieves in action

Cottingley Springs caravan site, the first 'official' one for travellers built by Leeds City Council in 1969.

No 'secret list' of proposed 28-day only traveller sites in Leeds, says council

Job Centre.

Anger as '˜quarter of Universal Credit recipients in Leeds hit with sanctions'

Adam Thompson and Kamer Hussain are two of the new Leeds Evening Ambassadors. Picture: David Lindsay

Businesses fund civilian teams to help keep Leeds city centre revellers safe

Landlord fined for 'overcrowding' after 11 people were squeezed into Leeds prope...

The aftermath of the Grenfell Tower disaster

Sheffield tower blocks will get sprinkler systems

Rose Gibson, the manager of Leeds Central Library, with the donated copy of Finland's beloved book, Kalevala. Picture by Tony Johnson.

Special Nordic delivery for Leeds Central Library

Librarian Hayley Goddard with the copy of 'The Siege of Troy' borrowed from Armley Library 110 years ago. Picture: Bruce Rollinson

Here's your library book back - sorry it's 100 years late

Leeds council wins court order banning groups of anti-social drivers in city

Richard Scott has been banned from begging in Leeds city centre for three years.

'Most prolific beggar' in Leeds banned from begging in city centre

The pool at Aireborough Leisure Centre

Leeds leisure centre set for Â£1.2m revamp

The Holdforths estate in New Wortley.

Six people banned from troubled Leeds council estate

Homelessness at 10-year-high down to dramatically rising rents

Fresh bid to tackle extremism and unite Leeds communities

Wellington Stores, in Holdforth Place, had become a magnet for crime and anti-social behaviour.

Leeds '˜crime magnet' shop ordered to close after mob attacked police

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