- Mar 3, 2009
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Jamie Oliver-backed charitable restaurant chain The Fifteen Foundation has abandoned plans to open in Leeds.
Last June, the foundation agreed a business plan to open a third UK restaurant site at the Dark Arches at Holbeck Urban Village in t...
- Mar 3, 2009
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A developer who pioneered high rising living in Leeds, UK, is blaming the banks for its decision to go into administration.
It lost £50 million of potential foreign investment because banks were not willing to match the funding. It is ...
- Mar 3, 2009
- ITV is preparing to mothball its huge Yorkshire studios site, home to shows such as Heartbeat and The Royal, as part of its cost-cutting plans which will see hundreds of jobs cut and millions of pounds shaved off its programming budget.
The commerci...
- Feb 15, 2009
- ANXIOUS residents in a south Leeds suburb face a two-month wait to see if 200 luxury homes will be built on their doorstep.
A public inquiry into the controversial plan to build upmarket properties in Rothwell and Oulton has finally finished after m...
- Feb 15, 2009
- LEEDS is to get a state-of-the-art train maintenance depot to help service a new fleet of eco-friendly super trains.
It will be one of five which are being built across the country to look after the new fleet which will replace ageing high-s...
- Feb 15, 2009
- THEY are features at airports and high-security Government buildings, but on Friday a security arch and a police sniffer dog were at a Leeds college.
West Yorkshire Police's force operations support division spent a day at Leeds Thomas Danby...
- Feb 15, 2009
- FIREFIGHTERS rescued a man after finding him collapsed and not breathing on the floor of his blazing flat in Leeds.
Four firefighters wearing breathing apparatus carried the man to safety and other crew members then used a defibrillator machine, he...
- Dec 21, 2008
- An NHS doctor who claimed she was forced into a marriage in Bangladesh is seeking an annulment to the union in the British courts. Dr Humayra Abedin, 33, from east London, returned to the UK on Tuesday as a result of a British court order made under ...
- Dec 21, 2008
- Women enjoying the festive break are being warned not to use unlicensed taxis in Leeds as a means of getting home after a night out. Council officials have said the regulated taxis and private hire vehicles operating the city are clearly identified w...
- Dec 21, 2008
- Leeds United have sacked manager Gary McAllister after 11 months at the club. The club made the decision following a run of five successive defeats which dropped Leeds to ninth in League One, five points off the play-offs. "The decision was made...
- Nov 30, 2008
- By David MarshSOARING energy costs are plunging some of the most vulnerable households in Leeds into fuel poverty, according to a new report. The report prepared for the council's executive board reveals that fuel poverty among vulnerable people such...
- Nov 30, 2008
- Reports Britons were among those who carried out the attacks in Mumbai which claimed at least 195 lives are being investigated by security experts. It has been reported seven of the gunmen are thought to have British links, with some suspects said to...
- Nov 30, 2008
- Gordon Brown has chaired a Cabinet meeting in Leeds dominated by the government's response to the Mumbai attacks and the economic situation. Foreign Secretary David Miliband briefed ministers on developments in the Indian city where police are still ...
- Nov 30, 2008
- GARY MCALLISTER last night insisted he is still the right man to take Leeds United forward, despite the club's humiliating FA Cup exit against non-league Histon. Leeds were bundled out of the Cup following an embarrassing 1-0 defeat at the Glass Worl...
- Nov 23, 2008
- Drinks giant Carlsberg has announced plans to close its historic brewery site in West Yorkshire with the loss of 170 jobs. The company blamed falling consumption and higher duties for the decision to shut its Leeds site by 2011. Consultation with the...
- Nov 23, 2008
- Corus has announced plans to cut 400 jobs from its distribution business. The proposed job losses include 95 at the steel giant's plant at Shotton, Deeside and 50 in south Wales. Another 100 jobs will go at eight sites in the West Midlands and 50 in ...
- Nov 23, 2008
- Defence giant BAE Systems is cutting 200 jobs in its army vehicles business in the UK. The job losses will affect factories in Leeds, Newcastle, Leicester and Barrow and Telford in Shropshire. Managing director David Allott said a voluntary redundanc...
- Nov 12, 2008
- By Rob PreeceMAJOR plans to expand the terminal building at Leeds Bradford Airport and create up to 3,000 jobs are unveiled today.The scheme, announced by the airport's new private equity owners Bridgepoint, is at the centre of a £70m masterpla...
- Nov 6, 2008
- Greg Mulholland (Leeds NW) said it was "dismaying" that 170 workers faced losing their jobs when the brewery closed in 2011.Speaker Michael Martin said the drinks industry was a "very good employer of labour" and it was right for ...
- Oct 28, 2008
- By Alun PalmerThink UFO-watcher and the image that often springs to mind is a jobless, unshaven man with lank greasy hair.He will also have body odour that could fell an ox at 50 paces, and all the social airs and graces of a cripplingly shy libraria...
- Oct 21, 2008
- By Bruce SmithA PIONEERING Leeds project to deter young people from gun and knife crime has scooped an international award.The city's crime reduction partnership Safer Leeds will receive the award for its Leeds Weapons Awareness Programme from the In...
- Oct 21, 2008
- By Vicki RobinsonFRESH details can today be revealed about the investigation into irregularities at Leeds's Royal Armouries museum.As the YEP has previously reported, Armouries chief executive Paul Evans was suspended in April and an internal inquiry...
- Oct 21, 2008
- By Rupert ChristiansenAlways imaginative, always adventurous, Opera North is going for broke this season with an ambitious programme which includes Verdi's epic Don Carlos and the premiere of David Sawer and Armando Iannucci's comedy about cosmetic s...
- Oct 21, 2008
- Head coach Neil Back has called on West Yorkshire's rugby fans to get behind Leeds Carnegie's promotion charge.Leeds have won all eight of their National One games this season, with their latest win coming over Coventry in front of 2,972 fans at Head...
- Oct 13, 2008
- By David MarshSENIOR councillors have given the go ahead for a £1m pound lottery bid to improve Leeds's oldest public park.The city council hopes to win the grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund's Parks For People programme to carry out a raft of impr...
- Oct 13, 2008
- WEST Yorkshire Police Authority says it has £6m invested in struggling Icelandic banks.A spokesman confirmed the force authority has £6m invested.The risk attached to those investments had been spread, following the authority's investment strategy, t...
- Oct 13, 2008
- By David MarshA CREDIT crunch working party is to be set up help protect jobs in West Yorkshire during the financial crisis gripping the country.Senior councillors in Leeds agreed to establish the all-party group after receiving a report about the po...
- Oct 13, 2008
- Protesters against the government's planned 42-day detention limit for terror suspects are to walk through Leeds in a "mass sleepwalk".Amnesty International campaigners will march through the city on Monday night wearing dressing gowns and slippers, ...
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