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• Eastleigh 0-3 FC Halifax Town

  20-04-2024 15:39
  
  FC Halifax thrashe Eastleigh to secure their National League play-off place.
  
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• Storm Lilian: high winds disrupt flights and Leeds and Creamfields festivals

  23-08-2024 12:59
  
  Several departures from Heathrow and Leeds Bradford cancelled and hundreds of homes hit by power cutsFlights have been grounded and Leeds festival has been forced to shut down some of its stages amid severe weather warnings over Storm Lilian.High winds of up to 70mph led to disruption across the north of England, with yellow warnings for wind in place on Friday. Continue reading...
  
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• Murder inquiry after Leeds delivery driver dies ‘trying to stop van theft’

  21-08-2024 14:00
  Police appeal for witnesses after man found at roadside after delivering package for Amazon-contracted firmPolice have launched a murder inquiry after a delivery driver was killed during an apparent theft of his van while he was dropping off parcels in Leeds.The man, who has not been named, was found unconscious with serious injuries in Heights Drive, Wortley, just before 7pm on Tuesday. Continue reading...
  
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• Far-right rallies and counter-protests take place across the UK – video

  03-08-2024 18:08
  Far-right marches and anti-racist counter-demonstrations took place in several cities across the UK on Saturday, days after a knife attack in Southport led to further incidents in the town. Large groups of people took to the streets of Belfast, Leeds, Manchester and Liverpool. The demonstrations came a day after 10 people were arrested for violent disorder and burglary following a night of riots and unrest in Sunderland‘Far-right racists’ will not win, Sunderland MP says after riotsM
  
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• ‘We got failed by the police’: how veterans of Leeds riots stepped in to defuse disorder

  28-07-2024 11:00
  
  A group of Muslim men put themselves in danger to calm unrest in Harehills over children being taken into careNadsy Qurban bent his neck to show how the crown of his head was ­covered in a number of burns, each the size of coins. “The smell was like I’m burning some goat or something, like I’m cooking some goat. That’s how bad it was,” he said.Needless to say, it hurt. But a week on, the burns he gained while putting out fires during unrest in the Harehills area
  
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• ‘A minority inside a minority’: fear and conspiracy theories in the Leeds Roma community

  27-07-2024 11:00
  
  False rumours that a child died in Harehills while being taken into care sparked unrest a week ago“A child died at the weekend,” a Roma woman in Harehills, Leeds, said on Monday. “Police came to take him and he jumped out of an upstairs window and died. The authorities have covered it up.”Where has she heard this? “TikTok.” Continue reading...
  
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• Leeds United fans see red as hated colour appears on new home kit

  26-07-2024 19:41
  
  Yorkshire club’s supporters decry Red Bull’s logo bringing colour of Man Utd and Lancaster rose to all-white shirtWith the football season fast approaching, fans young and old will be looking forward to getting their hands on their club’s new kit.But Leeds United supporters have to contend with the beloved white of their home shirt being blemished with their most hated colour: red. Continue reading...
  
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• Roma children at centre of Leeds unrest returned to extended family

  23-07-2024 19:30
  
  Four children had been removed from house in Harehills to prevent them being taken abroadRoma children who were taken into care, sparking unrest in Leeds last week, have been returned to their extended family.Police and social services removed the four children from a house in Harehills on Thursday to prevent them being taken abroad in breach of a court order. The children, aged between eight and 14, had been living with family members since being removed from their parents in April, the family
  
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• ‘This is what a councillor is supposed to do’: Mothin Ali on false accusations of rioting

  23-07-2024 08:00
  
  The Green party councillor for Gipton and Harehills in Leeds was accused by the far right of taking part in rioting when he was trying to calm tensions“People still are accusing me of being a rioter,” said Mothin Ali, the Green party councillor for Gipton and Harehills in Leeds.It is true he was there on Thursday night when a police car was turned on its side, projectiles were thrown at riot police and a doubledecker bus was set alight in a night of unrest triggered when police turne
  
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• The Guardian view on unrest in Leeds: fodder for far-right disinformation | Editorial

  22-07-2024 20:07
  
  Following serious disorder, Nigel Farage’s cynical response was an attempt to import Trump-style discord into our citiesThe renowned social historian David Kynaston observed at the weekend that multicultural Britain has made huge progress compared with 60 years ago, when local Conservatives ran a notoriously racist election campaign in the West Midlands constituency of Smethwick. He is, of course, quite right. It is impossible to imagine a serious political figure delivering a speech like
  
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• Council to review child protection case that triggered Leeds unrest

  20-07-2024 19:02
  
  ‘Serious disorder’ in Harehills began after children from Roma family taken into careLeeds city council is undertaking an urgent review of the child protection case that triggered unrest in the city on Thursday night.A police car was flipped on its side and a bus burned out in what police described as “serious disorder” in the Harehills area of the city, which began when children from a Roma family were taken into care. Continue reading...
  
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• 'There are children in there': moment councillor stops violence escalating in Leeds riot – video

  19-07-2024 17:09
  As violence and unrest broke out across Leeds on Thursday night, Mothin Ali, a Green party councillor in Harehills, made a plea to rioters to stop. Footage circulating on social media shows him telling a group of men 'this is our neighbourhood'. He said there were children inside the house they were attempting to burn and that it was their community. 'You can't treat it like this,' he said. Police car turned over and vehicles set alight in disorder in Leeds Continue reading...
  
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• ‘We’re in it together’: how unrest in Leeds escalated – and was defused

  19-07-2024 16:43
  
  Night that began with flipped car, fires and police in retreat ended with residents bringing water in wheelie bins to douse flamesPolice car turned over and vehicles set alight in disorder in LeedsIt had begun as an ordinary Thursday in Harehills, an urban part of east Leeds made up predominantly of dense redbrick back-to-back homes. It was not unusual for police to be called to a disturbance in one of the UK’s most deprived wards but what unfolded over the following hours was a scene nobo
  
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• Police car turned over and vehicles set alight in Leeds unrest – video

  19-07-2024 05:51
  A police car was flipped on its side and a bus set alight after unrest broke out in Leeds on Thursday evening. Footage appeared to show people throwing objects at the police vehicle before it was pushed over in Harehills, just east of the city centre. Police said they were called in and found an 'ongoing disturbance' involving agency workers and children. More people started to arrive and the agency workers and children were taken to a safe place.Police car turned over and vehicles set alight in
  
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• Police car turned over and vehicles set alight in disorder in Leeds

  19-07-2024 05:04
  
  People told to stay at home due to unrest in Harehills area of West Yorkshire city A police car was flipped on its side and a bus set alight after unrest broke out in Leeds on Thursday evening and residents were advised to stay at home.Footage appeared to show people throwing objects at the police vehicle before it was pushed over in Harehills, east of the city centre. The home secretary, Yvette Cooper, condemned the “shocking scenes and attacks”, saying “disorder of this natur
  
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• Sylvia Wallis obituary

  16-07-2024 19:20
  My mother, Sylvia Wallis, who has died aged 100, spent much of her life in West Yorkshire, working for many years as a local authority clerical worker and for the Widows Advisory Service in Leeds, where she also set up and ran a club for single people.Despite her associations with Yorkshire, Sylvia was actually born in Cardiff, to Johanna (nee Carney), a housewife, and Sidney Elias, a steelworker. When she was nine, her father, a Communist party member and chair of the National Unemployed Worker
  
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• Schoolboy detained for life for murdering Alfie Lewis, 15, in Leeds

  21-06-2024 18:11
  
  Bardia Shojaeifard, 15, given minimum term of 13 years as judge lifts anonymity to highlight ‘scourge of knife crime’A 15-year-old schoolboy with a “worrying interest in knives” who stabbed another teenager through the heart on the way home from school has been detained for life.Bardia Shojaeifard was given a minimum term of 13 years for murdering Alfie Lewis, 15, outside St Margaret’s primary school in Horsforth, Leeds, last November. Continue reading...
  
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• Boy sentenced to at least 13 years for murder of Alfie Lewis, 15, in Leeds

  21-06-2024 18:11
  
  Judge lifts anonymity of Bardia Shojaeifard, 15, to highlight ‘scourge of knife crime’ after attack with kitchen bladeA 15-year-old schoolboy with a “worrying interest in knives” who stabbed another teenager through the heart on the way home from school has been given a life sentence with a minimum term of 13 years.Bardia Shojaeifard was convicted in April of murdering Alfie Lewis, 15, outside St Margaret’s primary school in Horsforth, Leeds, last November. Continue
  
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• ‘He’ll be proud’: work starts on Rob Burrow motor neurone disease centre in Leeds

  03-06-2024 15:46
  
  Grief and adoration at ceremony just day after death of rugby league great, who dedicated last years to help others with diseaseA blue mural on a wall close to Headingley stadium in Leeds bears the words of Rob Burrow: “In a world full of adversity, we must dare to dream.”The former Leeds Rhinos rugby league scrum-half died on Sunday, five years after being diagnosed with motor neurone disease. Continue reading...
  
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• Roger Kojan obituary

  21-05-2024 18:53
  
  My friend Roger Kojan, who has died of pancreatic cancer aged 75, was an economic development officer with Wakefield council, in West Yorkshire, and an advocate for social change and sustainability in the workplace and the wider community.He liked to be practical, helping to set up a claimants’ union or working in the creche at a feminist event. Alternative ideas also informed his personal life, which included stints of communal living during his student years. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘A kick in the teeth’: Leeds artists fear loss of spaces is killing cultural scene

  19-05-2024 09:00
  
  Council spending cuts are forcing studios and venues to close, driving out the city’s creative businessesLast year, the city of Leeds held a year-long celebration of culture, complete with festivals, newly commissioned works of art and community projects. More than 1,000 events took place, with hundreds of volunteers and local schools taking part.This year, however, artists and ­creatives in the West Yorkshire city are being forced out of their workshops and galleries, and say the dwin
  
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• Bank of England plans sevenfold expansion of Leeds operation

  17-05-2024 11:32
  
  One in 10 officials to be based in city within three years and current 70-strong team will increase to 500The Bank of England governor, Andrew Bailey, has announced a big expansion of its operations in Leeds, with one in 10 officials to be based in the West Yorkshire city within three years.Bailey said the current 70-strong team at the central bank’s northern hub would swell sevenfold to 500 by 2027 through a combination of voluntary relocation and local recruitment. Continue reading...
  
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• Winger Walker extends Bradford stay

  15-05-2024 18:14
  Winger Jamie Walker will remain with Bradford for another year after the League Two club takes up the option to extend his stay.
  
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• Thomas to focus on Leeds play-off after US PGA

  15-05-2024 07:45
  
  Two-time champion Justin Thomas is "excited" by his early tee-time on Thursday because he can then watch Leeds United's play-off semi-final against Norwich.
  
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• Castleford's Horne among Super League bans

  13-05-2024 18:54
  
  St Helens winger Tommy Makinson and Castleford hooker Liam Horne are given one-game bans following Saints' win at the Tigers.
  
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• Huddersfield Town appoint Duff as head coach

  13-05-2024 18:42
  Huddersfield Town appoint former Barnsley and Swansea City boss Michael Duff as their new head coach on a three-year contract.
  
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• Leeds end York's unbeaten run in Women's Super League

  12-05-2024 19:05
  
  Leeds Rhinos edge out old rivals York Valkyrie to end their opponents' unbeaten Women's Super League run stretching back to 2022.
  
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• I would not swap one Leeds player - Farke

  11-05-2024 14:05
  
  Leeds boss Daniel Farke says he has "total belief" in his players before Sunday's Championship play-off semi-final against Norwich.
  
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• Saints romp to 10-try slaughter at Castleford

  10-05-2024 23:13
  St Helens storm back to the top of Super League as they run in 11 tries to batter Castleford on home soil.
  
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• Huddersfield boss Breitenreiter leaves after relegation

  10-05-2024 19:52
  Huddersfield Town boss Andre Breitenreiter leaves by mutual consent following their relegation from the Championship.
  
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