Last call to tech community for submissions for Leeds Digital Festival event programme
With less than eight weeks to go until the 2024 Leeds Digital Festival gets underway, organisers are calling for the Leeds tech community to submit their event details.
The final deadline for event submissions is 5.00pm Wednesday 24 July. The Festival runs from 16-27 September.
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Shaun the Sheep celebrates children's Christmas jumper day
To celebrate the woolliest and most festive day of the year on Thursday 12th December, Aardman has colla-baa-rated with Pawprint Family to create a limited-edition Shaun the Sheep enamel pin badge and sew-on patch for Save the Children’s Christmas Jumper Day.
The pin and patch feature Shaun the Sheep
Reminder to plan ahead as major highways work starts in Leeds
Road users are being urged to plan ahead this week as significant disruptive work begins around the Armley Gyratory, Stanningley Bypass (A647), and the Outer Ring Road A6120 Horsforth to Rodley route. The work has been planned to coincide with the reduced levels of traffic over the school summer holidays,
West Indian Carnival returns
Leeds is set to celebrate its rich cultural diversity with the return of the Leeds West Indian Carnival on the August Bank Holiday weekend, this year with a slightly updated route.
Leeds West Indian Carnival is Europe’s oldest of its kind, having been going since 1967. It is also
Second paid theatre internship for blind or visually impaired artist
For the second year running Leeds Playhouse will partner with Thomas Pocklington Trust (TPT) and The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) on their Get Set Progress internship programme, creating new employment opportunities for blind and visually impaired people.
The internship offers a nine-month, full-time, paid placement for opportunity
King's Speech - Housing
Following the King's speech today, Northern Housing Consortium chief executive Tracy Harrison said: “The Government’s focus on housing is good news for Northerners. The proposals set out in the King’s Speech to build more homes, including desperately needed social rent homes, are especially welcome. We know
Mayor Brabin tells builders to brace for housebuilding boom
Mayor Tracy Brabin has vowed to deliver a “new dawn” for housebuilding across West Yorkshire, by working in lock-step with local housing providers and the new government in Westminster.
The West Yorkshire Housing Strategy 2040, the first of its kind for the region, has been unveiled on a visit to