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New Manly coach Geoff Toovey has called on his battle-hardened troops to draw on their big-match experience in Friday night's World Club Challenge clash against Leeds.

Vandals have damaged a memorial to a police officer who was murdered in the line of duty, police have said.

The 19-year-old man suffered serious injuries and was taken to Leeds General Infirmary by ambulance following a collision with an Audi A3.

Unemployed young people in Leeds are to be given a 1.75m boost by the city council to help them find work and training.

This Leeds man went down to the woods - and was in for a big surprise after he dumped a wheelbarrow full of garden waste.

Could there be a future Hirst in Horsforth, a potential Picasso in Pudsey or a mini Monet in Moortown waiting to be discovered? After launching a new art studio and gallery specifically for nurturing Leeds children's creativity, she is one of the best placed people to find those future stars.

Cold, still weather in mid January brought pollution problems to most mainland UK cities.

Keir Radnedge takes a trip down memory lane and concludes that the FA will continue to frustrate friend and foe alike following the England manager's resignation COMMENT By Keir Radnedge What's in a name? When it comes to the Football Association, the answer is: Everything.

Members of the Dazl Diamonds cheerleading squad, from Middleton, who are supporting Sport Relief, spell out SR12 in pom-poms. Community projects across Leeds are setting their stall out to grab a slice of a spectacular 100,000 as part of our fantastic cash giveaway.

RUMOURS of secret plans to build 6,000 houses in Morley have been proved right - and the picture is worse than local councillors had feared.

The fiancee of a man who was shot and killed in a Leeds street told a murder trial her partner had planned to speak with the man who fired the fatal shot over claims he had beaten up his cousin.

And her visit is sure to shine all the more brightly for the people of Leeds as the city is the only Yorkshire destination featured on her national tour marking her 60 years on the throne.

Art students Marc Almond and Dave Ball formed Soft Cell, a synth pop duo famed for its uniquely sleazy electronic sound, in Leeds, England in 1980.

Through the ease of e-mail, St. Paul artist Joyce Lyon and painter/videographer Andrea Thoma of Leeds, England, have explored ideas about place, time and home for the past decade.

An "incredibly deceitful" accountant who took hundreds of thousands of pounds from clients to fund his luxury lifestyle has been jailed.

Millionaire businessman Jeff Cains reckons he owes his success to his early years on Leeds Market.

Firefighters have urged people to take extra care using electric heaters in the cold snap after a pensioner died following a flat blaze.

NEW FLEET: 40 of Arriva Yorkshire s new fleet of buses wind their way through the grounds of Temple Newsam.

TWO businesses which exhibited at the annual science and technology expo, Venturefest, today took home prizes worth more than A 40,000. At the Venturefest dinner this evening, Aptamer Solutions, which develops molecular devices known as aptamers, which can be used to replace antibodies in life-sciences research, such as diagnostics, therapeutics, ... (more)

Photograph: Tom Jenkins for the Guardian The Leeds United chairman, Ken Bates, claims he has rejected an application from Sven-Goran Eriksson to fill the vacant managerial position at Elland Road.