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Young people to be given ‘head start’ to gain employment

Local News
A new fund looking to tackle long term unemployment among 18-24 years olds will launch in March 2014. Towards the end of 2013, Leeds City Region was awarded £4.6million from the Government to deliver the “18-24 Head Start” programme to support young people into employment. Leeds City Council will receive…

Entrepreneurial skills take off at airline master class

Local News
Ambitious students from schools across West Yorkshire gathered to pick up industry skills from British Airways and Leeds Bradford Airport at an ‘airline master class’. Staff from the airline and the airport volunteered their time to share knowledge and wisdom with the participants. This year’s master class was hosted at…

Work starts at Elland Road park and ride

Local News
Heavy machinery has arrived at Elland Road to begin work on a £2.8m congestion-busting scheme. Construction of the city’s first major 800-space park and ride scheme is underway this week seeing installation of a new high quality surface, bus waiting facilities, shelters, lighting, signage, ticketing machines, fences, CCTV and landscaping.…

Vision for future of Leeds announced

Local News
Leeds City Council has unveiled ambitious plans for the future of the city using HS2 as a catalyst for visionary developments on a scale never before seen in Leeds. Plans would see an iconic new rail station built on the south bank representing a stunning keystone in the regeneration of…

Cash For Kids Across Leeds and West Yorkshire

Charity, Local News
Cash for Kids is the official charity of Radio Aire & Magic 828. Cash for Kids are unique in the fact that they support individual children, community groups, children’s hospices and other children’s charities across Leeds and West Yorkshire. By supporting Cash for Kids you are actually supporting hundreds of…

Local lad to represent Team GB at Winter Olympics

Other Sports, Sport
Leeds’ sporting reputation was handed a further boost with the announcement that a Leeds-born snowboarder and son of a Leeds councillor has been selected to represent Great Britain at this year’s Winter Olympics. Dom Harington, son of Leeds City Council’s lead member for cycling, Cllr Roger Harington, was announced as…

JCT600 continues sponsorship of Bradford Cricket League

Cricket, Sport
Yorkshire car retailer JCT600 is continuing to support the Bradford Cricket League, announcing its seventh year of sponsorship. As well as giving its name to the historic league, JCT600 can also be seen on banners at league grounds and its branding appears on the league’s website, trophies and umpires’ jackets.…

The National Martial Arts College

Other Sports, Sport
The National Martial Arts College was established 15 years ago to teach the AEGIS martial arts system. The AEGIS system was developed by Master Tony Higo 30 years ago from systems he studied going from childhood, including Boxing, Karate and street defence. Master Higo’s goal was to develop a martial…
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