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A WOMAN abducted by a knifeman in a busy Bolton street and forced to drive to Leeds was today recovering at home.
Most damaging of all is the rumour that the phone call that reawakened Newcastle's interest in Woodgate came from within the Leeds camp.
But the report dismisses claims that Leeds is swamped by asylum seekers who have access to a wide range of benefits.
Like him, Leeds businessman Ian Brown, 56, was wait-listed for an angioplasty.
New Leeds midfielder, Seth Johnson, says he is learning to play the waiting game following his recent big-money move.
The former Leeds Girls High School pupil from Roundhay, is now reading Oriental Studies at Cambridge University.
Cardiff fans were segregated at the match, and afterwards kept back while Leeds fans dispersed.
However, despite their problems, Leeds are a side of quality players, it is just a matter of how many will be around next season.
He had stepped down as an adviser to the board of Leeds United days earlier.
Meanwhile, Leeds have warned they will not break the bank to land West Ham's want-away star.
Leeds and Northrup of Philadelphia made an array of Wheatstone bridges, some with plugs and some, like this one, with dials and some plugs.
Scotland's best golfer is no fan of links golf and played very little of it as a youngster brought up in, wait for it, Leeds.
Police say it is questionable whether Leeds has a bigger problem than other cities.
The new Leeds boss had a heart-to-heart with the want-away midfielder within minutes of arriving at the club's Wetherby training ground.
It is a Wednesday morning and Roly Squire has a small window of time before he must dash across Leeds for the main operating session of the week.
Last month she told Leeds Crown Court she would clear the garden by an agreed date or face further action.
Postal services could be hit by prolonged strike action over plans to process North Yorkshire's mail in Leeds at weekends.
I can remember a time only a few years ago when Leeds away was one of the toughest fixtures on the list.
A four-minute video of the brawl was played which showed the Leeds players trading kicks and blows with Owen.
Michael Duberry admits that he has mixed feelings about being recalled to the Leeds team for tomorrow's FA Cup tie at Birmingham.
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The England star was clocked speeding at an average of 92 mph on the M1, Leeds Magistrates Court was told.
She has eschewed her adoptive city of Glasgow, however, in favour of Chapel Allerton, in Leeds, Yorkshire's financial heart.
There are a lot of wealthy people who work in Leeds and Bradford and live in Craven and we are calling on them to help.
From the air, the helipad atop the roof of the Leeds General Infirmary jumps out at you, the great white cross unmissable.
An express train travelling from London to Leeds derailed after a rail broke on the East Coast Main Line track.
A relative of one of the suspected bombers was arrested following police raids of six homes in Leeds, West Yorkshire, and two cars were seized.
Early the next morning a woman walking her dog near St Mark's church in Woodhouse, Leeds, saw a man slumped against the churchyard gate.
The Recorder of Leeds, Judge Norman Jones QC adjourned sentence until next Friday but told Richardson a life sentence was inevitable.
She read microbiology at Leeds University and trained for the ministry on the Northern Ordination Course.
Academically brilliant, she was due to go to Leeds University in September to read English and drama.
And the narrow victory lifted Wibsey above the east Leeds side into the second promotion position.
A mother whose son was shot dead led a march against guns in Leeds at the weekend.
Places at Leeds are limited, so early application is recommended to avoid disappointment.
The event will snake through the city centre culminating with a fireworks display above Leeds Town Hall at midnight.
The trio inside were heading home to Leeds with their loot from a smash-and-grab raid on a York computer business.
One flight was cancelled at Leeds Bradford Airport with delays ranging from 10 to 45 minutes, while 100 flights were held up by up to more than an hour at Manchester Airport.
The best accumulator bet would be that United will be in at the death, that Leeds push them to the limit, and that Liverpool will win the Uefa Cup if they can overcome Bara.
Trouble arose after the final whistle when a gang of 200 to 300 Leeds supporters gathered outside in wait for Cardiff fans leaving the Elland Road stadium.
However, as weariness set in, Leeds hit a late treble to finish the game.
He tirelessly states that he is a front player, and not the wide midfielder that he has been forced to impersonate at times for both Leeds and England.
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Leeds put the game out of reach with just over 20 minutes remaining.
The woman was later taken by ambulance to Bradford Royal Infirmary after a call was made to the emergency services by a relative from an address in the Leeds Road area.
Jordan, who walked into Leeds Crown Court with the aid of a walking stick, supplied medical evidence from three cardiac consultants saying he was unfit to stand trial.
It followed fine performances by the 29-year-old Londoner against West Ham and Leeds after being recalled to the side only because of the club's injury problems.
Leeds University scientists have calculated the birds, including tiny quail weighing mere grammes, are five times fitter than our Olympic athletes.
Earlier this year, she joined Winston Churchill and Nelson Mandela in being made an Honorary Freeman of the City of Leeds in recognition of her outstanding service to music.
Leicester's next match is against Leeds a week on Wednesday.
A Leeds woman who single-handedly tackled an armed robber and prevented a raid on a building society was yesterday honoured for her bravery by the Home Secretary.
Hundreds of bargain hunters flocked to Leeds at the weekend to snap up the uniquely weird and wonderful outfits being sold by Opera North's costume department.
The airport lies a few miles away from the M1 motorway, which runs southwards to London, northwards to Leeds and connects to the M25 motorway.
Liverpool John Lennon Airport is nearby, while the closest airport to the Pendle Borough is Leeds Bradford.
These include the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, Lancaster Canal, Bridgewater Canal, Rochdale Canal, Ashton Canal and Manchester Ship Canal.
Such a dispute between the trustees and master of Leeds Grammar School led to a celebrated case in the Court of Chancery.
There is a village in West Yorkshire called Robin Hood, on the A61 between Leeds and Wakefield and close to Rothwell and Lofthouse.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Leeds used the LUFC script found running down the centre of the current badge.
It also runs the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds which organises exhibitions and research activities in international sculpture.
Perhaps because of this, Filmer was imprisoned for some years in Leeds Castle and his estates were sequestered.
In 1920, he took up a post as Reader in English Language at the University of Leeds, and became the youngest professor there.
The northern leg of V97 was switched to Temple Newsam, Leeds to provide room for camping and three stages.
Previously it had been held at Temple Newsam in Leeds, before being replaced by Carling's Leeds Festival.
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The Reading and Leeds Festivals are a pair of annual rock music festivals that take place in Reading and Leeds in England.
The Leeds event is held in Bramham Park, near Wetherby, the grounds of an historic house.
The Leeds leg, however, was plagued by riots and violence which led to problems in retaining its licence.
In 2005, the main stages at both Reading and Leeds were made larger, featuring unique cantilevered video screens.
As it would pass alongside the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, it could impact on this Conservation Area.
Sunderland's win in 1973 was considered a major upset, having beaten Leeds United who finished third in the top flight that season.
The club holds several rivalries, most notably with Liverpool, Manchester City and Leeds United, and more recently with Arsenal.
Manchester United has rivalries with Arsenal, Leeds United, Liverpool, and Manchester City, against whom they contest the Manchester derby.
Arsenal reached the FA Cup final again the following year wearing the red and white home strip and were beaten by Leeds United.
Leeds United Football Club is a professional association football club in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
Leeds United have won three First Division league titles, one FA Cup and one League Cup.
Following Leeds City's disbanding, Yorkshire Amateurs bought their stadium Elland Road.
In 1948, Sam Bolton replaced Ernest Pullan as the chairman of Leeds United.
Charles was hungry for success at the highest level, and manager Raich Carter was unable to convince him that Leeds could satisfy his ambitions.
In October 1998, Graham left to become manager of Tottenham Hotspur, and Leeds opted to replace him with assistant manager David O'Leary.
At this time Leeds were in danger of relegation, but managed to avoid the drop in the penultimate game of the season.
Reid was given a permanent contract at Leeds the following summer, and brought in several players on loan.
However, the team rallied and Leeds won their final game of the season to confirm promotion to the Championship.
In May 2011 it was announced that Leeds Chairman Ken Bates had bought the club and become the owner of Leeds.
Warnock resigned with six games remaining, and Leeds just five points above the relegation zone.
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On 30 October 2015, Cellino agreed a deal in principle with Leeds Fans Utd to sell a majority stake in the club.
In 1934, Leeds switched to blue and yellow halved shirts incorporating the city crest, white shorts and blue socks with yellow tops.
The club also adopted their first badge in 1934, using the city crest as Leeds City had.
In 1950, Leeds switched to yellow shirts with blue sleeves and collars, white shorts and black, blue and gold hooped socks.
The owl came from the city crest, which itself was based on the crest of Sir John Saville, the first alderman of Leeds.
As a result of the bid, Leeds drew up plans to redevelop parts of Elland Road and increase the stadium's capacity.
When former Leeds player Harry Kewell moved to Galatasaray in 2008, it caused uproar with Leeds supporters.
After the takeover by GFH Capital, Leeds introduced a Leeds United official Twitter feed to help interact via social media.
On 15 May 2014, Leeds United retired the number 17 shirt due to superstitious reasons for owner Massimo Cellino.
It has connections to the East Coast Main Line, trains to Leeds, Doncaster, and stations towards London King's Cross.
However, the funding was pulled and the scheme has been replaced by the proposed Leeds Trolleybus scheme.
The Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission is at One Leeds City Office Park off the A653, south of Bridgewater Place.
The area between Leeds, Bradford and Wakefield is known as the Rhubarb Triangle.
Tanya Arnold, presents the BBC rugby league programme Super League Show, broadcast nationwide from Leeds.
Calderdale has the lowest truancy rate for unitary authorities, almost half that of Leeds, followed by North Lincolnshire.
Leeds and Sheffield have around twice as much total income than any other university.
Phase 2 of this project would see a new line connecting Birmingham to Leeds, with a proposed station in Toton known as the East Midlands Hub.
A 2011 TripAdvisor poll voted Liverpool as having the best nightlife of any UK city, ahead of Manchester, Leeds and even London.
The team has competed against both the Leeds Griffins and the Leicester Lovegoods in the past and is part of the vibrant UK quidditch scene.
The car came to rest with its front wheels in the four foot of the nearest railway line, the down Leeds line.
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Large outdoor music festivals in the summer and autumn are popular, such as Glastonbury, V Festival, and the Reading and Leeds Festivals.
Other major urban areas in the United Kingdom include the regions of Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow, Liverpool and Manchester.
James Fox of Derby had a healthy export trade in machine tools for the first third of the century, as did Matthew Murray of Leeds.
Bobby joined Manchester United and Jackie Leeds United both contributing much to the success and history of their respective clubs.
York was the base for Royalists, and from there they captured Leeds and Wakefield only to have them recaptured a few months later.
The City of Leeds is Yorkshire's largest city and is the main centre of trade and commerce.
Historically canals were used, including the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, which is the longest canal in England.
Yorkshire also has air transport services from Leeds Bradford International Airport.
Leeds Bradford Airport provides connections to most major European and North African airports as well as Pakistan and New York City.
Yorkshire Coastliner links Leeds via York with Scarborough, Filey, Bridlington and Whitby.
The city formerly hosted a branch of The University of Law before it moved to Leeds.
On 21 June 1819 an Act of Parliament was enacted to create a link between this extension and the Wigan branch of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.
Manchester had a canal connection to the nearby port of Liverpool via the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.
Elland Road was previously occupied by their predecessors, Leeds City before their disbanding.
The tallest occupied building in Yorkshire is Bridgewater Place in central Leeds, commonly referred to as The Dalek.
The central hubs of the rail network in the region are Leeds, Sheffield and York.
The East Coast Main Line passes through Leeds and York, operated by Virgin Trains East Coast which is based in York.
The Midland Main Line finishes at Sheffield, with a less regular service to Leeds, operated by East Midlands Trains.
Leeds has a fairly extensive commuter network and an electrified section in the North of Bradford provides many commuter services.
Leeds and Bradford have more developed commuter rail systems but lack any mass transit system.
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Thc City of Leeds is divided into 31 civil parishes and a single unparished area.
When a county council was formed for the riding in 1889, Leeds was excluded from its area of responsibility and formed a county borough.
The Chief Executive of Leeds City Council is Tom Riordan while the Leader of the Council is Councillor Judith Blake of the Labour Party.
West Yorkshire does not have a county council, so Leeds City Council is the primary provider of local government services.
These form the lowest tier of local government and absorb some limited functions from Leeds City Council in their areas.
The crime rate in Leeds is well above the national average, like many other English major cities.
Leeds has a diverse economy with the service sector now dominating over the traditional manufacturing industries.
This is a chart of trend of regional gross value added of Leeds at current basic prices with figures in millions of British pounds sterling.
Leeds city centre is connected to the National Rail network at Leeds railway station.
Leeds is now and the largest centre for legal services in the UK after London.
In 1974, GKN acquired Kirkstall Forge Engineering, a manufacturer of truck axles in Leeds.
As in Leeds, Priestley established classes for the youth of his parish and by 1781, he was teaching 150 students.
There is a statue of James Watt in Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester and City Square, Leeds.
With the M62 and M621, the M1 forms a ring of motorways around the south of Leeds.
The new road involved the construction of a series of new junctions, bridges and viaducts to the east of Leeds.
Between Liverpool and Manchester, and east of Leeds, the terrain along which the road passes is relatively flat.
East of Leeds, the motorway serves Wakefield at junction 30 and crosses by the River Calder.
These include Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester and Sheffield.
Sutcliffe committed his next murder in Leeds in January 1976, when he stabbed Emily Jackson, aged 42, 51 times.
On 14 December Sutcliffe attacked Marilyn Moore, another prostitute from Leeds.
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In response to the police reaction to the murders, the Leeds Revolutionary Feminist Group organised a number of 'Reclaim the Night' marches.
This is preserved at the Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture, part of the School of English of the University of Leeds.
Following the last Survey of English Dialects, the University of Leeds has started work on a new project.
Professor Dodd and Professor Malcolm Shaw of Leeds University supported this proposition.
After a year at Huddersfield College they were sent as boarders to a Moravian Church school at Fulneck, near Leeds.
Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool and Manchester now had three MPs instead of two.
In 1852 he was an assessor on the committee that selected Cuthbert Brodrick's design in the competition to design Leeds Town Hall.
John Smeaton Academy, a secondary school in the suburbs of Leeds adjacent to the Pendas Fields estate near Austhorpe, is named after Smeaton.
A viaduct in the final stage of the Leeds Inner Ring Road, opened in 2008, was named after him.
At this time his eldest son James was working as an accountant in Leeds, and his younger son, William, was running the plant.
The Leeds and Liverpool Canal is a canal in Northern England, linking the cities of Leeds and Liverpool.
While the Aire and Calder Navigation improved links to the east for Leeds, links to the west were limited.
By the following year the Yorkshire end had been extended to Gargrave, and by 1777 the canal had joined the Aire and Calder Navigation in Leeds.
The Leeds and Liverpool Canal is one of the quietest canals for leisure boating on the network.
When competition cut into the business he switched to carrying fish from the coast to Leeds and Manchester.
It crosses the Leeds and Liverpool Canal and meets the A673 from Bolton and A5106 from Standish.
The Leeds and Liverpool Canal passes through Bingley and Keighley on route to Skipton.
Wigan Pier, best known from George Orwell's book The Road to Wigan Pier, was the name of a wharf on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in Wigan.
The M1 motorway runs through the county, connecting Nottingham to London, Leeds and Leicester by road.
The Leeds and Liverpool Canal crosses the plain and, in summer, is used for irrigation, bringing water from the Pennines.
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The Leeds and Liverpool Canal runs through Skipton and is a popular destination for tourists, with walking and boat hire.
On 5 July 2014, the Tour de France Stage 1 from Leeds to Harrogate passed through the town.
On 5 July 2014, the Tour de France Stage 1 from Leeds to Harrogate passed through Wharfedale along roads running close to the river.
Part of the river below Leeds is canalised, and is known as the Aire and Calder Navigation.
It then passes through Leeds and on to the villages of Swillington and Woodlesford.
Built about 1734, this narrow stone bridge conveyed the packhorse trail from Leeds to Cheshire.
It was important, as it enabled people to reach an old road which ran to Leeds and Barnsley, passing through Pitsmoor.
Tinsley Viaduct carries the M1 London to Leeds motorway and the A631 road over the River Don.
The local television stations are ITV Yorkshire, BBC Yorkshire and Sheffield Live TV, both transmitted from Leeds and Sheffield.
When travelling by air, passengers usually do so via East Midlands, Leeds Bradford, Doncaster Sheffield Robin Hood and Manchester airports.
First operate bus services from Halifax to the town of Huddersfield and the nearby cities of Bradford and Leeds.
In a 2010 index of sustainable cities, Leeds placed 6th for the second year running.
There are around 150 law firms operating in Leeds, employing over 6,700 people.
In the reign of Henry VIII Bradford exceeded Leeds as a manufacturing centre.
During the Civil War the town was garrisoned for the Parliamentarians and in 1642 was unsuccessfully attacked by Royalist forces from Leeds.
The Bradford Canal, built in 1774, linking the city to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal took its water from Bradford Beck and its tributaries.
The Leeds and Bradford Railway opened Forster Square railway station on 1 July 1846 with a service via Shipley to Leeds.
The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway opened a station at Drake Street on 9 May 1850, between Manchester and Leeds.
On 20 June 1911, Britain's first trolleybus systems opened simultaneously in Bradford, between Laisterdyke and Dudley Hill, and in Leeds.
In March 2017, The Times voted Leeds as the number one cultural place to live in Britain.
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Historically in Yorkshire's West Riding, Leeds can be traced to the 5th century name for a wooded area of the Kingdom of Elmet.
In the 17th and 18th centuries Leeds became a major centre for the production and trading of wool.
Today, Leeds has the most diverse economy of all the UK's main employment centres.
Public transport, rail and road communications networks in the region are focused on Leeds.
An inhabitant of Leeds is locally known as a Loiner, a word of uncertain origin.
Leeds developed as a market town in the Middle Ages as part of the local agricultural economy.
Leeds City Region Enterprise Zone was launched in April 2012 to promote development in four sites along the A63 East Leeds Link Road.
Leeds was a manor and township in the large ancient parish of Leeds St Peter, in the Skyrack wapentake of the West Riding of Yorkshire.
The new charter incorporated the entire parish, including all eleven townships, as the Borough of Leeds and withdrew the earlier charter.
In 1866, Leeds and each of the other townships in the borough became civil parishs.
On 1 April 1925, the parish of Leeds was expanded to cover the whole borough.
Initially, local government services were provided by Leeds City Council and West Yorkshire County Council.
In the latter half of the nineteenth century, population growth in Hunslet, Armley, and Wortley outstripped that of Leeds.
Leeds has seen great expenditure on regenerating the city, attracting in investments and flagship projects, as found in Leeds city centre.
Inner and southern areas of Leeds lie on a layer of coal measure sandstones forming the Yorkshire Coalfield.
The Leeds postcode area covers most of the City of Leeds and is almost entirely made up of the Leeds post town.
Aside from the built up area of Leeds itself, there are a number of suburbs and exurbs within the district.
Leeds has a climate that is oceanic, greatly influenced by the Atlantic and the Pennines.
The last reported tornado occurred on 14 September 2006, causing trees to uproot and signal failures at Leeds City railway station.
This makes the Leeds USD about as multicultural as Salford in Greater Manchester.
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The City of Leeds is the local government district covering Leeds, and the local authority is Leeds City Council.
It is in the banking, finance and insurance sectors that Leeds differs most from the financial structure of the region and the nation.
Leeds has over 30 national and international banks, many of whose northern or regional offices are based in the city.
Other major companies based in the city include William Hill, International Personal Finance, ASDA, Leeds Building Society and Northern Foods.
The establishment of an Administrative Court in Leeds in April 2009 reinforced Leeds' position as one of the UK's key legal centres.
Tourism is important to the Leeds economy, in 2009 Leeds was the 8th most visited city in England by UK visitors.
Leeds is overall less deprived than other large UK cities and average income is above regional averages.
First off young laddie, I'll have you know I played for Leeds United as a younger chap, so wheesht.
The largest employers are Leeds City Council, with 33,000 staff, and the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, with 14,000 staff.
The Department of Health, NHS England, the Care Quality Commission, NHS Digital, and Public Health England all have large offices in Leeds.
Europe's largest teaching hospital is also based in Leeds, and is home to the Yorkshire Cancer Centre, the largest of its kind in Europe.
Many companies have several stores within Central Leeds and the wider city.
On 21 March 2013, a large shopping and leisure complex called Trinity Leeds opened in the city centre.
The modern and interactive retail space covers the old Burton Arcades and the former Leeds Shopping Plaza with its main entrance from Briggate.
Measurements taken on some main roads in Leeds have revealed pollution levels over twice the legal limits.
The main provider is First Leeds and Arriva Yorkshire serves routes to the south of the city.
Leeds City bus station is at Dyer Street and is used by bus services to towns and cities in Yorkshire, plus a small number of local services.
Buses out of the city are mainly provided by First Leeds and Arriva Yorkshire.
The Yorkshire Coastliner service runs from Leeds to Bridlington, Filey, Scarborough and Whitby via York and Malton.
The city and metropolitan borough of Leeds is served by 16 railway stations and there are plans to open several more within the next 20 years.
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The Leeds extension of the Dales Way follows the Meanwood Valley Trail before it branches off to head towards Ilkley and Windermere.
The Ramblers' Association publish various booklets of walks in and around Leeds.
There are many more smaller parks and open spaces scattered around the city, which makes Leeds one of the Greenest cities in the United Kingdom.
Leeds Carnival is Western Europe's oldest West Indian Carnival, and the UK's third largest after the Notting Hill and Nottingham Carnival.
The Leeds Festival, featuring some of the biggest names in rock and indie music, takes place every year in Bramham Park.
The Leeds Asian Festival, formerly the Leeds Mela, is held in Roundhay Park.
Light Night Leeds takes place each October, and many venues in the city are open to the public for Heritage Open Days in September.
The Leeds International Film Festival is the largest film festival in England outside London and shows films from around the world.
Today, Leeds International Film Festival's International Short Film Competition is named after Louis Le Prince.
Wordsworth Donisthorpe who was also from Leeds, filmed the second oldest surviving film.
It is not known if he and Louis Le Prince ever met but they both had a strong connection to the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society.
Many communities within Leeds now have their own local radio stations, such as East Leeds FM and Tempo FM for Wetherby and the surrounding areas.
Leeds Art Gallery houses important collections of traditional and contemporary British art.
Just south of Leeds Bridge once stood The Theatre which hosted Sarah Siddons and Ching Lau Lauro in 1786 and 1834 respectively.
Leeds is also home to Phoenix Dance Theatre, who were formed in the Harehills area of the city in 1981, and Northern Ballet Theatre.
Leeds United was formed in 1919 and plays at the 37,890 capacity Elland Road stadium in Beeston.
Leeds City Athletic Club competes in the British Athletics League and UK Women's League as well as the Northern Athletics League.
Leeds is home to a number of field hockey clubs that compete in the North Hockey League, Yorkshire Hockey Association League and BUCS leagues.
These include Leeds Hockey Club, Leeds Adel Carnegie Hockey Club, the University of Leeds Hockey Club and Leeds Beckett University Hockey Club.
It is estimated that around 3,000 Sikhs in Leeds take part in this annual event.
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Water supply and sewerage services in Leeds are provided by Yorkshire Water, part of the Kelda Group.
The force has five policing districts covering the West Yorkshire area, one of which covers Leeds.
The Leeds District Headquarters is located at Elland Road in the South of the City.
Other NHS hospitals are Chapel Allerton Hospital, Seacroft Hospital, Wharfedale Hospital in Otley, and Leeds Dental Institute.
The Leeds site of the archives service is in the former public library at Sheepscar, Leeds.
Leeds City Council is responsible for over 50 public libraries across the whole city, including 5 mobile libraries.
Regular mail coaches departed to Leeds, London, Manchester, York and Sheffield and the 'Strafford Arms' was an important coaching inn.
The railways arrived in Wakefield in 1840 when Kirkgate Station was built on the Manchester to Leeds line.
In 2009 Leeds was the first city outside London to host the Eurogamer Expo.
It was opened to Leeds in 1704 and to Wakefield in 1706, enabling craft carrying 100 tons to reach Wakefield from the Humber.
The arrival of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in 1796 made possible transportation of goods in bulk, bringing a huge boost to the town's economy.
The Trail featured on the BBC Oz and James Drink to Britain programme and consequently became very popular for drinkers in Manchester and Leeds.
Trains run between York, Leeds and Manchester Airport at least every three hours every night of the week.
At the turn of the 19th century, the area became popular with tourists due to the easy access from the nearby Leeds and Liverpool Canal.
The Leeds and Liverpool canal brought people from Liverpool, Manchester, Bolton and Wigan amongst others.
In 2007, Peepolykus Theatre Company premiered a new adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles at West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds.
A friend, Philip Michael Hepworth, told Leeds Crown Court that he bought MCat from Josh.
Agathe was also talking to Blackburn, Birmingham City and Leeds United about signing on and kick-starting his career.
And on Thursday he secured Leeds United defender Ross Killock on a month long loan.
Arriva Yorkshire provide frequent services to Dewsbury and Leeds, and Yorkshire Tiger provide almost all services in the south east of the town.
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The club left its ground at Leeds Road in 1994 and now shares the John Smith's Stadium with the Huddersfield Giants rugby league team.
On 18 January 1908, the first ever Great Britain test match took place at Headingley Rugby Stadium, Leeds, versus New Zealand.
The first Test was played at Odsal, Bradford, and the third Test at Headingley Rugby Stadium, Leeds.
Great Britain had won the first Test three weeks earlier at Wembley, and needed to win at Headingley Rugby Stadium, Leeds to retain the Ashes.
The Lions scored their only try of the series in the second half at Headingley Rugby Stadium, Leeds when Hull winger Steve Evans scored.
Shaun Edwards made his debut for Great Britain against France in 1985 at Headingley Rugby Stadium, Leeds.
Leeds Rhinos are the most successful club in the Super League era, having won 7 titles.
The record for most Super League titles won is held by Leeds with seven titles.
Helens and Leeds respectively, Wigan have now equalled St Helens's record of losing five Grand Finals.
On 27 August 2011, Wigan won the Challenge Cup final against Leeds at Wembley Stadium.
In 2010 Wigan were officially the best supported club in Super League with a higher average attendance than nearest rivals Leeds Rhinos.
The Challenge Cup was launched in 1897 and it was St Helens who contested its first final with Batley, at Headingley, Leeds.
Leeds and St Helens is arguably the greatest rivalry of the two Yorkshire clubs that have history with St Helens.
They are also historically known as the Loiners, referring to the demonym for a native of Leeds.
Leeds have won thirteen Challenge Cups, ten League championships and three World Club Challenge titles.
The club played at the Militia Barracks from 1870 to 1888 before moving to Cardigan Fields, near Headingley, Leeds.
In 1901, the Leeds Parish Church team disbanded and put all of its players at Leeds' disposal.
On Saturday 27 October 1934, Leeds and Wakefield Trinity met in the final of the Yorkshire Cup at Crown Flatt, Dewsbury.
Arthur Clues was the first Australian to come and play in Britain after the war and the great Australian second rower was signed by Leeds.
Their confrontations on the field during the Leeds v Bradford Northern local derby games are part of rugby league folklore.
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In the late 1960s, under the guidance of Roy Francis, Leeds repeatedly finished top of the league.
Tables were turned in December when the same teams met in the final of the BBC2 Floodlit Trophy, Leeds emerging victorious this time.
The Salford versus Leeds league match was abandoned after 38 minutes when Chris Sanderson of Leeds suffered a fatal injury.
Leeds eventually returned to Wembley for a Challenge Cup Final appearance in 1994 against Wigan.
Leeds returned to Wembley a year later, again to face Wigan again, but were beaten more easily.
In 2000, Leeds reached the Challenge Cup Final but finished runners up to Yorkshire rivals Bradford at Murrayfield, Edinburgh.
In 2003, despite being top of the table at the time, Leeds announced Tony Smith would replace Darryl Powell as Head Coach for the 2004 season.
As champions of the previous year, Leeds played in the 2005 World Club Challenge beating the 2004 Australian premiers Canterbury Bulldogs.
Leeds next trophy was the 2007 Grand Final which marked the final game as Coach of the Club for Tony Smith.
Leeds then retained the Super League championship by winning the Grand final.
In 1996, the formation of Super League saw Leeds change their name to Leeds Rhinos.
The new badge is mainly blue and has a rhino with the word rhino above it in a semi circle and Leeds at the top of the badge.
Ronnie the Rhino visits schools as part of the Leeds RLFC Community project, with the intention of promoting sports and healthy living.
Leeds have West Yorkshire derbies with Wakefield Trinity who they play every Boxing Day in the Festive Challenge.
Helens who lost five consecutive Grand Finals between 2007 and 2011, four of which were against Leeds.
They have rivalries with Warrington, Leeds, Bradford, Halifax and Wakefield Trinity.
After guiding Huddersfield back to Super League, Smith and assistant coach Brian McDermott moved onto Headingley to take control of Leeds.
In 1994 Huddersfield took a share in the then named McAlpine Stadium with Huddersfield Town after they both moved from Leeds Road.
She was educated at Agnes Stewart Church of England High School, Ebor Gardens, Leeds.
In 2015, she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree by the University of Leeds.

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