Good morning Leeds.
Hope you had a good weekend.
What's making Leeds tick today?
Why is civic-mindedness such an alien concept? Asks Leeds blogger Jon Eland.
Public sector cuts - how voluntary sector workers have lived for years is the title of a post over at How To Laugh in the Face of it All blog.
There's a discussion - and pictures - on the first White Cloth Hall demolition on Kirkgate over at Secret Leeds.
Danny Pugsley provides a guide to everything you need to know about Chapel Allerton over at My Life in Leeds blog.
Independent, Fullstop is a place to showcase independent activity in Leeds. Check it out.
Join the Pudsey Locals on Facebook.
The curious windows of Fartown in Pudsey is a post up at Exploring Leeds.
Read all about some autumnal beer pickings in Leeds over at The Good Stuff blog. Fabcy pumpkin beer in North Bar? Join Simon Says blog for a tipple. And food blogger Cake, Cats and Cocktails posts on an evening at Headingley's Salvo's. And it's breakfast time over at Wheat Surrender blog.
There's a preview of the Leeds International Film Festival over at Leeds Guide. There's also a post over at digyorkshire.com.
Yorkshire Small World Exhibition photos are over at goodtogoLeeds blog.
Leeds-based My Grape Escape reports from the 2010 European Wine Bloggers conference.
Travelling Suitcase Library - a totally original and extremely modern environmentally friendly and generally save-the-worldy brand new library service - is on tour around Leeds.
What the papers say...
The manager of a charity that works with adults with learning difficulties has backed council plans to close three support centres, reports the Yorkshire Post. Leeds has drawn up plans to close centres in Horsforth, West Ardsley and Wetherby and replace them with smaller-scale services in existing community buildings.
Council bosses in Leeds will today be grilled by voluntary and community groups ho fear they could be affected by public spending cuts, reports BBC Leeds.
A village is still beating towns in Wharfedale and Aireborough in a race for faster broadband services, but hundreds more votes are needed to be in with a chance of qualifying, reports the Wharfedale Observer.
Veterans and cadets joined together at an emotional ceremony to mark the launch of the Poppy Appeal in Leeds, reports the YEP.
The Morley Observer says a new housing development in the centre of Morley is to be named in memory of Lance Corporal David Kirkness, who was killed on active service in Afghanistan.
Billy Burton has written an emotional letter of thanks to Wetherby News readers from his Filipino jail cell as the fight to free him gathers pace.
Leeds Jewish society has set the date for this year's "Booze for Jews" event, reports the Jewish Chronicle.
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