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- Pronouns are Rohypnol – (reposting of article removed from Medium)
- Leeds council in a bind over WPUK call for apology. What can it possibly say?
- Influence, groupthink and fear. Leeds and the stifling of the transgender debate
- Council pulls plug on Carillion involvement in Leeds restoration project
- Who’s getting what arts cash in the post Leeds2023 divvy-up?
- Enquiry into Leeds hotel loan write-off points to “poor judgement” by decision makers
- The Leeds projects that will be impacted by Carillion collapse (plus parents told school running normally)
- News in brief: Top West Yorks devolution official steps down; culture cash for Leeds; Labour row over new free school
- Risk? What risk? Council leaders to brief watchdog committee on Leeds Capital of Culture bid
- Housing target for Leeds could be slashed again … to 42,000? (from 70,000)
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Pronouns are Rohypnol – (reposting of article removed from Medium)
(Below is an article that was posted earlier this week on Medium. It has since been removed. In the interests of free speech, I’m re-posting it here, so people who want to read it can. Thanks to @WingsScotland for retrieving … Continue reading
UKIP gifts Morley & Outwood and Leeds North East to Tories?
UKIP isn’t putting up candidates in five of the eight constituencies in the Leeds area at the forthcoming General Election, leaving some 26,000 votes they won in 2015 going begging. They aren’t fielding a candidate in Morley and Outwood, where their 8,000-odd votes … Continue reading
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Tagged 2017, general election, leeds, leeds north east, morley and outwood
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Agreement reached for funding Headingley stadium redevelopment – no cost to taxpayer
Leeds City Council says an agreement has been reached to get the funds required to redevelop Headingley Carnegie stadium. “This funding which will be provided from a private financial services company, will be at no cost to the council taxpayer,” says … Continue reading
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Tagged cricket, Headingley, leeds, leeds city council, yorkshire county cricket club
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Bradford’s T&A getting more website traffic than Leeds’ YEP. Why?
It shouldn’t go unremarked: for the first time since newspaper executives came up with the bright idea of giving their content away for free, Bradford’s local daily, the Telegraph and Argus, is getting more people visiting its website every day … Continue reading
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Who’s up, who’s down? Leeds local elections 2016 in numbers
Some facts and figures from yesterday’s vote in the Leeds City Council elections (in which none of the 33 seats up for grabs changed hands). Labour’s percentage vote in the city was up 3% compared to 2015, but still 4% … Continue reading
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Tagged 2016, council elections, labour party, leeds, leeds city council, local elections, turnout, UKIP
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Leeds local elections – welcome to the new multi-party system (and “new politics”)
What a difference six years make. Here’s who was standing where in the local elections in Leeds in 2010: And here’s who’s standing for the 33 seats up for grabs on 5th May: Much prettier, no? That’s because in Leeds, as elsewhere, … Continue reading
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Tagged Labour, leeds, leeds city council, local elections 2016, Momentum, UKIP
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Council set to give thumbs down to broadcasting Leeds planning meetings on the web
Meetings of Leeds City Council’s top decision-making body are set to be broadcast live over the internet starting at the latest in April this year. Members of a senior committee are expected to give the go-ahead to the new webcasts … Continue reading
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Tagged council, leeds, leeds city council, leeds is different, planning, webcast
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Head of Leeds review replaced following “concerns” from Ann Maguire’s husband
The day after the husband of murdered Leeds schoolteacher Ann Maguire called for an independent inquiry into her death, it has emerged that the head of a local review into her death has been replaced following “concerns” expressed by Mr Maguire. … Continue reading
Council writes off £379,000 debt at troubled Leeds theatre company
It’s only a footnote in the troubled financial history of the Leeds Grand umbrella company, but worth recording nonetheless: Leeds City Council has agreed to write off £379,000 the company owed. The sum represents the outstanding part of the Grand’s share of the … Continue reading
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