Good morning Leeds.
The big news to break early yesterday evening was that Morley and Outwood MP Ed Balls has taken over as the new shadow chancellor following the resignation of Alan Johnson.
You can read a Guardian profile of Balls here and a post asking 'what do we know about his economic thinking?' Mary Riddell writes for the Telegraph: 'Ed Balls will be brilliant. David Cameron should be very afraid' and Channel Four News asks 'are two Eds better than one?' The Economist argues Johnson's departure is 'deeply wounding for Labour'.
What's making Leeds tick today?
East Leeds-based Coven blog writes an opinion piece on 'New Chapter' - the planned library reorganisation and closures in Leeds - and the possible impact a library closure could have on the Richmond Hill area.
A citywide public consultation to get people's views about how Leeds council provides residential and day care services for older people in the future is now under way and will run until April 2011.
Leeds North West MP Greg Mulholland has written to councillor Lucinda Yeadon, the executive board member with responsibilities for Adult Social Care, expressing concern about the proposed closure of the Leeds Crisis Centre in Headingley, reports North Leeds Life.
The second Leeds City of Sanctuary welcome and networking meeting will be held at the One Community Centre from 3pm to 6pm on 25 January.
Otley's' 'town tax' has been frozen at last year's level – thanks in part to a belief that long-awaited work on the civic centre won't start before this winter, reports the Wharfedale Observer. By the way, the 'Wharfedale's' going tabloid from next month and becoming the Ilkley, Wharfedale and Airedale Gazette and Observer.
The Travelling Suitcase Library provides as wide a range of books as can be fit into a suitcase, and is holding a bookswap at Arcadia in Headingley later this month. The first Arcadia book club will also be held the same day.
Family doctors in Leeds are at the forefront of government reforms which have been described as tossing a "grenade" into the NHS, reports the YEP.
Scientists from the University of Leeds have made a fundamental step in the search for therapies for amyloid-related diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and diabetes mellitus.
Councillor Brenda Lancaster, a Moortown Liberal Democrat councillor, will be the next Lord Mayor of Leeds.
Police in Leeds have released a photograph of an 84-year-old robbery victim's face in a bid to trace her attacker and a good samaritan that came to her aid.
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