Good morning Leeds.
What's making Leeds tick today?
Campaigners fighting against a proposed waste incinerator at Skelton Grange have posted their views on a recent inner area committee meeting where Biffa representatives gave a presentation on the proposals. Find out more at the No2Incinerator blog.
The FRINGE: Leeds group, which is looking to set up an inclusive arts festival fringe for Leeds have set up a new blog to raise their profile. Check it out here, and their Facebook page here. They also have a new website in development and you can follow them on twitter on @FRINGELeeds.
Kirkstall residents are looking forward to a November fayre, reports Kirkstall Online.
Police in North West Leeds are appealing for witnesses to a serious road traffic collision in Pool-in-Wharfedale.
The short film section at Leeds International Film Festival is the title of a post at Creative Boom Leeds. The same site has a piece on Leeds Met Students' Union Bar hosting the next Pecha Kucha Leeds, 'an evening of enticement, enlightenment and entertainment with and for creatives'.
A film of modern-day slavery will be introduced at Hyde Park Picture House tomorrow by the Leeds Anti-Sex Trafficking Network, a grassroots organisation that seeks to highlight the realities faced by trafficked women worldwide, and empower individuals and groups to take action against trafficking in their local communities.
Green Drinks Leeds is a monthly social networking event for anyone in the Leeds area interested in green issues and the environment - the next event is tomorrow.
What the papers say
Creating 1,000 more jobs. Opening a railway station. Generating all of its own electricity. If these sound ambitious targets for the market town of Otley, then that is exactly the reaction the people pushing for a new community led-action plan are aiming for, reports the Wharfedale Observer. More visitors could soon be enjoying Otley Chevin under plans to create a north Leeds country park.
A top level meeting with bus operator First to discuss how community bus services withdrawn last month can be restored is being arranged by Wetherby MP Alec Shelbrooke, reports the Wetherby News.
Morley's fifth literature festival has again been deemed a success, reports the Morley Observer and Advertiser.
Staff at a sandwich shop in Leeds were threatened by two robbers brandishing a gun, reports the BBC.
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