Regular readers will have noticed this is the last week of the Guardian Leeds blog – with our final day this Friday, 27 May. Here's why we're winding down.
This week we'll be celebrating some of the great reader submissions for the blog including the best Flickr submissions, terrific guest posts and putting the focus on some of the issues we've covered in depth, such as Kirkgate Market.
I will also point you in the direction of some local blogs and news sites that should help keep you up to date once we stop.
Guardian Leeds will have no new posts after this Friday, but you'll still be able to search for older posts which are eternalised in Google. Data, maps, visualisations and slideshows should all still be viewable, but obviously some bits and bobs may disappear as Guardian Leeds accounts are closed down.
The Guardian Leeds group Flickr pool will continue but be rebranded for The Northerner blog, which is a Guardian blog for the whole of the north of England.
I'll write a proper signing off post on Friday.
Public discussion on alternative media in Leeds tonight
Now seems as good a time as any to remind you that there's a public discussion about the future of alternative media in Leeds at Old Broadcastng House in Woodhouse Lane this evening, starting at 6.30pm.
It's organised by Leeds resident and former journalist Megan Waugh, who said that the 'huge response' to the closure of the Guardian Leeds blog on Twitter and on other blogs 'shows what an appetite there is for alternative news provision in Leeds'. Check out my earlier post on the event here.
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