Good morning, Leeds.
Muslims across the city will be celebrating Eid today. Check out a guest post by Leeds Makkah Mosque Iman Qari Asim from earlier this week if you missed it.
Here's what's making Leeds tick today
Leeds' lamposts are runing my life, says Seth Johnson in a poem and video over at Yorkshire Telly.
Friends of Middleton Park are holding a craft and produce fair on September 20.
A stretch of a city centre road has been closed to allow demolition work to take place on an historic building in Leeds. Kirkgate is to be closed until next Thursday to allow partial demolition work on the First White Cloth Hall to proceed.
Leeds University has chosen the Corn Exchange as the venue for the first recital in its International Concert Series. This series is a familiar part of the cultural calendar, and its inaugural event this year will be a free lunchtime concert otoday from 1.05pm-1.55pm.
Experience Leeds at the Queens Hotel on Wednesday wasn't just about enabling more joined-up thinking between the hotels and tourist attractions, but a way of firing up the unique identity of our city, supporting and promoting smaller events, local artisan producers and suppliers, and getting business involved in a more meaningful way in the life of Leeds. Check out the new Experience Leeds blog.
The World Curry Festival is taking place in Millennium Square (even if Bradford might take exception), reports the BBC.
Victoria Quarter this month celebrates 20 years of trading which transformed a rundown part of Leeds into a gleaming mecca for retailing, reports the YEP.
West Yorkshire's resilience to future economic shocks is a tale of two cities with Leeds and Bradford set for contrasting fortunes, a BBC study suggests.
Around 125 new affordable homes are to be built in Leeds after the council scooped £5.6million in government funding. There are 22 for rent and 23 for sale in Pudsey, 28 for rent and 27 for sale in Beeston and 12 for rent and 12 for sale in Woodlesford.
The Keeping House Investment Fund is on the lookout for socially enterprising approaches to help Leeds people to live happily and independently in their own homes.
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