Leeds, England News

Armley's Upstairs Downstairs nightclub has a genteel new lease of life a ' as a venue for ballroom and latin dancing.

Joyriders are using stolen 4x4s to destroy a Leeds park. In the latest attack, a Mitsubishi Shogun was driven across Middleton Park and 'doughnutted' leaving huge brown circles in the grass.

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Travellers who bought their own plot of land in Rothwell have lost a landmark appeal to live on it.

The ITV studios in Leeds have been saved following the announcement of a A 5m cash injection.

A coroner has raised concerns over the level of training given to police dealing with people detained under the Mental Health Act.

A rail worker has died after being hit by a train just outside Leeds City Station.

A night shift worker was shot at during a masked raid in Leeds. Maqbool Shah, 52, had been restacking shelves at the Total garage on Gelderd Road in Gildersome in the early hours of Thursday when there was a loud rap on the window.

Moortown's own Matthew Lee is set to take on the world in an international diving competition.

A man has been charged with outraging public decency after allegedly urinating on a war memorial in Leeds, the YEP can reveal.

Eight police officers were hurt after a Christening party at a Leeds pub decended into a mass brawl.

A plan for a new care home in Leeds has been attacked by a councillor. Designs have been drawn up for a modern care home to replace St Joseph's care home in Outwood Lane, which closed two years ago and is in the process of being demolished and the site cleared.

An armed robber targetted 19 shops across Leeds, and gave some of the stolen money to Big Issue sellers.

A sergeant allowed a vulnerable Leeds man to leave a police station despite his colleagues showing him suicide notes and a noose they found at his home, an inquest heard.

A man has been jailed indefinitely after sexually attacking a man with learning disabilites next to a Leeds canal.

Protesting Leeds children put on face masks as they prepared for the worst a ' a giant, stinking tip right across the road from their school.

A boy was airlifted to hospital after being cut free from the wreckage of a car involved in a crash with an empty school bus and another car.

A further five people with swine flu have died in the past two weeks in Yorkshire.

A Portuguese teenager violently raped a young woman in Leeds city centre after fleeing sex attack charges in his own country.

A Leeds golf club is flying its flag at half mast to pay tribute to an "irreplaceable" secretary killed in a fire at his home.