Leeds Council is planning to launch a special, fee-free school in Headingley. The new establishment would be called the Specialist Inclusive Learning Centre (SILC) and it would substitute the current Grammar School at Rose Court, […]
YouGov Poll Predicts Who Will Win Leeds Seats
According to YouGov’s 2019 General Election poll, no parliamentary seats in Leeds city will change. The Labour candidates in Leeds Central, Leeds East, Leeds West, Leeds North East and Leeds North West are all expected […]
Brexit Uncertainty Threatens Leeds German Christmas Market
In Leeds, the Christkindelmarkt in Millennium Square remains one of the staples of Christmas time in the city. The market is one of the largest and longest-running Christmas markets in the UK. It is organised […]
The Amazons Are On Fire at O2 Academy, 09/11/19
The image of burning tour bus ‘Big Suze’ on their eponymously titled first record certainly signalled an end of a chapter for The Amazons. Yet with the release of sophomore album Future Dust the Reading […]
Leeds Announced as 22nd Hardest Working City in the UK
A brand new online tool has been created to show which cities are the hardest working throughout the UK. It uses factors like average hours worked, unemployment rate and commute time, to determine the working […]
Calls for Leeds Bus Services to be Back Under Public Control
Leeds City Councillor, Judith Blake (Lab), has called for Leeds buses to be brought back into public ownership. The calls come for the services to be renationalised after statistics emerged estimating that Leeds buses have […]
Leeds City Council Announces Plans to Raise Minimum Pay for Council Staff to Match ‘Real Living Wage’
Leeds City Council has announced it will raise the minimum wage for staff in line with the new ‘real’ Living Wage. This move is despite having its budget cut by £266m over the last decade. […]
London, Paris, Leeds… The Boyd Company reports on where the banks of the future may operate.
The Boyd Company, a New Jersey-based independent location counsel to corporations including Dell and GlaxoSmithKline recently released a report comparing the cost of operating a banking & financial services back office in London compared with […]
Leeds Ranks 8th in the UK for Number of Sugar Babies
There has been an exponential rise in the number of UK university students seeking sugar daddies and mommies throughout 2019, including the University of Leeds. According to seeking.com, the University of Leeds ranks 9th in […]
Editorial Letter: Being Honest About My Mental Health
Dear readers, First off, I just want to say congratulations to everyone who has gotten through this year’s November deadline season and good luck to anyone who still has deadlines to go. November marks many […]
‘It’s an Air-Mergency’: Leeds Protestors Install Oxygen Masks at Local Bus Stops
Groups of families began protesting the dangerous levels of air pollution in Leeds last Wednesday. The anti-pollution campaign group refer to themselves as ‘The Air Team’ and gathered on Infirmary Street to show their growing […]
Purpose-Built Student Accommodation A Potential Post-Brexit Investment
The Purpose-built Student Accommodation (PBSA) sector has seen record growth in the UK in 2019. In the past decade, universities have become a prominent player in the UK economy. This is due to the sector […]