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• Cheeseboard origins discovered in Tudor manuscript

  18-04-2025 13:52 via bbc.com
  
  The manuscript was unknown until it was bought by the University of Leeds at auction in 2023.
  
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• Thousands of fans celebrate Leeds United promotion

  05-05-2025 18:59 via bbc.com
  
  About 150,000 fans watch as the team parades through the city centre on open-top buses.
  
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• 🎧 A parade to remember forever

  05-05-2025 18:27 via bbc.com
  
  Jonny Buchan, Adam Pope and Kaiser Chiefs bassist' Simon Rix are at Leeds city centre as the Whites embark on their victory parade after winning the Championship on Saturday.
  
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• Forward Ward among nine leaving Huddersfield

  05-05-2025 18:07 via bbc.com
  
  League One club Huddersfield Town release forward Danny Ward after an injury-hit season and announce the departures of eight other players with first-team experience.
  
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• The Meltham family running a Yorkshire vineyard

  05-05-2025 18:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Helme Edge Vineyard, started as a hobby, but has organically turned into a business.
  
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• Piroe earns golden boot award

  05-05-2025 16:55 via bbc.com
  
  Leeds United striker Joel Piroe has a personal achievement to go along with the side's promotion and title win on Saturday - the Championship's golden boot.
  
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• Thousands pack city for Leeds United parade

  05-05-2025 16:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Tens of thousands of celebrating fans have lined the mile-long route around the centre.
  
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• Plans submitted for dog daycare centre

  05-05-2025 15:18 via bbc.com
  
  Up to 15 dogs would be accommodated at the centre each day while owners are at work, documents say.
  
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• Come on let's twist again

  05-05-2025 12:10 via bbc.com
  
  BBC Radio Leeds' Adam Pope reflects on Leeds United's dramatic sealing of the Championship title.
  
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• Youth project aims to inspire boys and young men

  05-05-2025 10:49 via bbc.com
  
  Emerge, in Leeds and Bradford, will create safe spaces for open conversation, organisers say.
  
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• Campaign launched to help fund litter-eating drone

  05-05-2025 08:32 via bbc.com
  Leeds Waterfront Group needs to raise £24,000 to fund the WasteShark drone.
  
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• Book of Charlotte Brontë's teenage poems on sale

  05-05-2025 08:31 via bbc.com
  
  Museum in Yorkshire has original 1829 copy of volume of poems that has now been reproduced.
  
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• Cyclist, 16, seriously hurt as car fails to stop

  04-05-2025 20:43 via bbc.com
  Police say a boy suffered potentially life-changing injuries in the collision in Liversedge.
  
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• Wakefield end Magic Weekend by beating Cas

  04-05-2025 20:39 via bbc.com
  Wakefield Trinity put in a classy performance to beat Castleford Tigers in the final 2025 Magic Weekend fixture at St James' Park.
  
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• 'Farke is my man' - Leeds chairman backs boss

  04-05-2025 17:49 via bbc.com
  Leeds United chairman Paraag Marathe says he has "ended speculation" over the future of manager Daniel Farke by confirming the German is 'his man'.
  
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• Warwickshire chase 185 to beat Yorkshire

  04-05-2025 16:19 via bbc.com
  Warwickshire chase a target of 185 to beat Yorkshire by five wickets with a day to spare at Headingley.
  
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• Huddersfield beat 12-man Hull for first win

  04-05-2025 16:11 via bbc.com
  Huddersfield Giants claim their first Super League win of the season as they edge 12-man Hull in a bad-tempered Magic Weekend match.
  
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• Bradford City promotion bus parade confirmed

  04-05-2025 16:09 via bbc.com
  Celebrations will take place on Tuesday evening in the city centre, the club announces.
  
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• Bradford promotion 'not just a football achievement'

  04-05-2025 15:01 via bbc.com
  BBC Radio Leeds' Bradford City reporter Jamie Raynor looks at how Graham Alexander turned the club around - and what promotion means.
  
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• Council hails 'amazing' CultureDale festival

  04-05-2025 10:39 via bbc.com
  Calderdale's year-long culture celebration showcased 135 projects and 550 events.
  
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• Parents in limbo over primary school's future

  04-05-2025 09:16 via bbc.com
  Leeds City Council is preparing a report on options for Queensway Primary School in Yeadon.
  
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• 'Place and people now gone' caught on camera

  04-05-2025 08:04 via bbc.com
  Photographer Victor Wedderburn hopes his pictures from 1980s Bradford can find a permanent home.
  
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• Potting robot helps bring city into spring bloom

  04-05-2025 08:02 via bbc.com
  The machine has so far helped to prepare about two million plants ready for placing around Leeds.
  
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• Leeds victory puts pressure on Saints boss Wellens

  03-05-2025 23:20 via bbc.com
  Leeds Rhinos beat St Helens at Magic Weekend to increase the pressure on under-fire Saints coach Paul Wellens.
  
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• Jepson completes Castleford Tigers takeover

  03-05-2025 20:20 via bbc.com
  Businessman Martin Jepson completes the takeover of Castleford Tigers, becoming the club's new majority shareholder.
  
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• 'Pretty special' - Leeds and Burnley's fight for Championship title

  03-05-2025 20:05 via bbc.com
  Leeds United and Burnley both reached 100 points in the Championship, a first in a season for the division. BBC Sport explores why both sides were so dominant.
  
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• Pub crawl crossbow violence raises misogyny concerns

  03-05-2025 19:03 via bbc.com
  The bars were busy again on the Otley Run in Leeds, but revellers and residents have mixed feelings.
  
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• Bradford City promoted to League One

  03-05-2025 18:26 via bbc.co.uk
  After six years in League Two the Bantams clinch promotion on the last day of the season.
  
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• Hear the moment Leeds Utd win Championship title

  03-05-2025 16:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC Radio Leeds commentary team of Adam Pope and Jonny Buchan call the action.
  
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• Superfans flock to Laurel and Hardy festival

  03-05-2025 11:37 via bbc.com
  
  Harrogate is hosting the 43rd Sons of the Desert convention dedicated to the comedy double-act.
  
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