Richard Beecham

Plans to open a McDonald’s in Headingley will pour “fuel on the fire” of rowdy behaviour linked to the area’s famous Otley Run pub crawl, a local MP has claimed.

A local MP has accused the Government of “learning nothing” from last year’s Afghan refugee crisis, as local councils still await instructions on how to support refugees arriving from Ukraine in the coming weeks and months.

COUNCIL tax increases, £16m of service cuts and an extra 211 new jobs have been approved as Leeds City Council passes its mixed bag of a budget for the coming year.

GIGANTIC plans to build more than 2,000 flats and tens of thousands of square metres of office space and a hotel on a site in south Leeds will go before planning chiefs in Leeds next week.

THE risk of flooding is still a “key threat” to Leeds, and tens of millions of pounds worth of flood defence works will still be needed over the next five years, including schemes in Bradford District.

PLANS to create a “pet recreation facility” are set to go before a panel of Leeds city councillors this week, amid fears barking dogs on the site could create a noise nuisance.

LEEDS City Square’s planned revamp could prove to be the “jewel in the crown” of the city in a jubilee year, according to a senior civil servant.

MEMBERSHIP fees for council-run gyms may have to reduce in future to encourage more people on lower incomes to get active, a meeting of Leeds city councillors has heard.

MULTI-million pound plans to create a fleet of hundreds of new electric bikes and docking stations around Leeds are set to go before council decision-makers this week.

PLANS to allow a weekend-long music festival to take place in east Leeds have been heavily criticised by police and Leeds City Council officers, who worry for public safety if it goes ahead.