Thursday, October 21, 2010

Leeds- Culture , Sports, Religion , Public services and Twin towns


Media

Yorkshire Post Newspapers Ltd, owned by Johnston Press plc, is based in the city, and produces a daily morning broadsheet, the Yorkshire Post, and an evening paper, the Yorkshire Evening Post (YEP). The YEP has a website which includes a series of community pages which focus on specific areas of the city.[96] TheWetherby News covers mainly areas within the north eastern sector of the district, and the Wharfedale & Airedale Observer, published in Ilkley, covers the north west, both appearing weekly. Both of the universities have student newspapers, the weekly Leeds Student from the University of Leeds and the monthly The Metfrom Leeds Metropolitan University. The Leeds Guide is a fortnightly listings magazine, established in 1997. Free publications include the Leeds Weekly News, produced by Yorkshire Post Newspapers in four geographic versions and distributed to households in the main urban area of the city,[97] and the regional version of Metrowhich is distributed on buses and at rail stations.
Regional television and radio stations have bases in the city; BBC Television and ITV both have regional studios and broadcasting centres in Leeds. ITV Yorkshire, formerly Yorkshire Television, broadcasts from The Leeds Studios on Kirkstall Road. There are a number of independent film production companies, including the not-for-profit cooperative Leeds Animation Workshop, founded in 1978; community video producers Vera Mediaand several small commercial production companies. BBC Radio Leeds, Radio Aire, Magic 828, Galaxy Yorkshire, Real Radio and Yorkshire Radio broadcast from the city. LSRfm.com, is based in Leeds University Union, and regularly hosts outside broadcasts around the city. Many communities within Leeds now have their own local radio stations, such as East Leeds FM and Tempo FM for Wetherby and the surrounding areas. Leeds also has its own privately owned television station: Leeds Television is run by volunteers and supported by professionals in the media industry.
A quirky modern five-storey building with a large sign saying "BBC Yorkshire" in black above the second-floor windows on the white-fronted facade of the lower four floors can be seen on the far side of a dual-carriageway road with a barrier along the central reservation. At right-angles to the right of the building is a tall blue slab with the letters "BBC" in white at the top. The left side of the building is mostly brick-red with a few windows, but above it is a light blue windowless section. The roof above this and the grey fifth floor of the frontage curves gently down to the rear. A lone car is driving from left to right along the road; between it and the building, temporary boards have been erected in front of a building to the left. In the top left-hand corner of the picture, part of a tall many-windowed building can be seen.


Museums

A new Leeds City Museum opened in 2008[98] in Millennium Square. Abbey House Museum is housed in the former gatehouse of Kirkstall Abbey, and includes walk-through Victorian streets and galleries describing the history of the abbey, childhood, and Victorian Leeds. Armley Mills Industrial Museum is housed in what was once the world's largest woollen mill,[99] and includes industrial machinery and railway locomotives. This museum also shows the first known moving pictures in the world which were taken in the city, by Louis Le Prince, of a Roundhay Garden Scene and of Leeds Bridge in 1888. Thwaite Mills Watermill Museum is a fully-restored 1820s water-powered mill on the river Aire to the east of the city centre. The Thackray Museum is a museum of the history of medicine, featuring topics such as Victorian public health, pre-anaesthesia surgery, and safety in childbirth. It is housed in a former workhouse next to St James's hospital. The Royal Armouries Museum opened in 1996 in a dramatic modern building when this part of the national collection was transferred from the Tower of London. Leeds Art Gallery reopened in June 2007 after a major renovation, and houses important collections of traditional and contemporary British art. Smaller museums in Leeds include Otley Museum,Horsforth Village Museum,[100] the University of Leeds Textile Archive (ULITA),[101] and the museum at Fulneck Moravian Settlement.

A queue of people at the edge of a pedestrianised square stretches uphill across the scene from right to left, then doubles back up another slope to the double-arched entrance at the centre of a large mid-nineteenth-century stone building. This also has steps leading up to the entrance with four ornamental street-lamps in front. On either side of the entrance are giant pilasters, two more of which can be seen, surmounted by urns, at the building's corners. There are six large windows with shell tympanums and scroll-effect balcony rails between the entrance and the corners on each side, with five small circular windows above and between the tympanums. Below on each side are basement windows, those on the left obscured because of the sloping site. Above the entrance is a large arch and above that, in gold lettering, is "Leeds City Museum". Higher up is another gold inscription, "Leeds Institute". Above this is another, larger, tympanum with sculpture, set in a pediment with urns on either side. Behind is a mansard roof.A long mid-Victorian Jacobethan-style building of red brick can be seen beyond a wide entrance with open metal gates and adjacent railings. A car is about to go through the entry barrier. The building has three storeys with, in the centre, a large round-headed window occupying the two storeys over the entrance and a tower above with turrets at the corners. On either side of the tower, bay windows project forward on all three floors, and parapets and six shaped gables can be seen along the roof-line. Behind and to the left can be seen a tall modern building, while behind and to the right there is a tall chimney.

Music, theatre and dance

Leeds has the Grand Theatre where Opera North is based, the City Varieties Music Hall, which hosted performances by Charlie Chaplin andHarry Houdini and was also the venue of the BBC television programme The Good Old Days, and West Yorkshire Playhouse.[102][103][104]
Leeds is home to Phoenix Dance Theatre, who were formed in the Harehills area of the city in 1981, and Northern Ballet Theatre.[105] In autumn 2010 the two companies will move into a purpose-built dance centre which will be the largest space for dance outside of London. It will be the only space for dance to house a national classical and a national contemporary dance company alongside each another.[106]
Popular musical acts originating in Leeds include Soft Cell, The Sunshine Underground, The Sisters of Mercy, Hadouken!, Kaiser Chiefs,Gang of Four, The Rhythm Sisters, and Melanie B, of the Spice Girls.

Carnivals and festivals


Leeds Carnival is Western Europe's oldest West Indian Carnival, and the UK's second largest afterNotting Hill Carnival.[113][114] It attracts around 100,000 people over 3 days to the streets of Chapeltown and Harehills. There is a large procession that finishes at Potternewton Park, where there are stalls, entertainment and refreshments. The Leeds Festival, featuring some of the biggest names in rock and indie music, takes place every year in Bramham Park. The Leeds Asian Festival, formerly the Leeds Mela, is held in Roundhay Park.[115] The Otley Folk Festival (patron:Nic Jones),[116] Walking Festival,[117] Carnival[118] and Victorian Christmas Fayre[119] are annual events. Light Night Leeds takes place each October,[120] and many venues in the city are open to the public for Heritage Open Days in September.[121] The Leeds International Pianoforte Competition, established in 1963 by Fanny Waterman and Marion Stein, has been held in the city every three years since 1963 and has launched the careers of many major concert pianists. The Leeds International Concert Season, which includes orchestral and choral concerts in Leeds Town Hall and other events, is the largest local authority music programme in the UK.[122]
The Leeds International Film Festival is the largest film festival in England outside London[123] and shows films from around the world. It incorporates the highly successful Leeds Young People's Film Festival, which features exciting and innovative films made both for and by children and young people.[124] Garforth is host to the fortnight long festival The Garforth Arts Festival which has been an annual event since 2005.
Part of a West Indian carnival procession passes along a public road in front of trees (to the left) and red-brick houses (to the right). In front is a participant wearing a gold helmet and vestigial armour. Above and around her is an enormous shield-shaped yellow, gold and red contraption supported by spokes and with many large feathers. Behind her is another participant in a white dress with a similar-shaped feathered shield contraption in yellow, brown and purple worn the other way up.


Nightlife

Leeds has a very large student population, resulting in a large number of pubs, bars, nightclubs and restaurants, as well as a multitude of venues for live music. The full range of music tastes is catered for in Leeds. It includes the original home of the club nights Back 2 Basics and Speedqueen.[125] Morley was the location of techno club The Orbit.[126] Leeds has number of large 'super-clubs' and there is a selection of independent clubs.
Leeds has a well established gay nightlife scene. The Bridge Inn and The New Penny, both on Call Lane, have long been gay night spots.[127]
Towards Millennium Square and the Civic or Northern Quarter, is a growing entertainment district providing for both students and weekend visitors. The square has many bars and restaurants and a large outdoor screen mounted on the side of the Civic Theatre. Millennium Square is a venue for large seasonal events such as a Christmas market, gigs and concerts, citywide parties and the Rhythms of the City Festival. It is adjacent to the Mandela Gardens, which were opened by Nelson Mandela in 2001. A number of public art features, fountains, a canal and greenery caWater supply and sewerage in Leeds is provided by Yorkshire Water, part of the Kelda Group. Prior to 1973 it had been provided by the Leeds Corporation. Leeds City Council has a target of 11MW of renewable energy from onshore wind by 2010 and an aspirational target of 75MW by 2020. There are currently no operational wind farms in Leeds.[138]
A plain corner building of the 1930s on a main road. Traffic-lights, railings, bollards and pedestrian crossings with tactile paving can also be seen. The frontage of the building is mainly brick, but the lowest course, of Portland stone, extends as far as the sills of the eleven ground-floor windows (eight on the main road and three on the side road to the right). The wooden double entrance door set diagonally on the corner also has a stone surround. Above it is a long window with a projecting brick surround, and above this is a large sign in capital letters, originally reading SHEEPSCAR but now with the second "E" missing. The upper floor has smaller windows above all of the ground-floor ones except for the furthest one on the main road, where there is no upper floor. The building has a slate half-hipped roof.
West Yorkshire Archive Service, Leeds site
The area is policed by the West Yorkshire Police. The force has eight divisions, three of which cover Leeds: AA "North West Leeds Division" covering north and west Leeds with a station atWeetwood; BA "North East Leeds Division", covering north east Leeds with stations at Stainbeck near Chapel Allerton and Killingbeck; CA "City and Holbeck Division" covering central and south Leeds with stations at Millgarth (city centre) and Holbeck. Fire and rescue services are provided by the West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service. The fire stations in Leeds are: Cookridge, Gipton,Hunslet, Whinmoor "Leeds" (near city centre, on Kirkstall Road) and Moortown.
Health services are provided by the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds Primary Care Trust[139] and Leeds Partnerships NHS Foundation Trust[140] which provides mental health services. Leeds General Infirmary ("LGI") is a listed building with more recent additions and is in the city centre. St James's University Hospital, Leeds, known locally as "Jimmy's"[141][142] is to the north east of the city centre and is one of the largest teaching hospitals in Europe. Other NHS hospitals are Chapel Allerton Hospital,Seacroft Hospital, Wharfedale Hospital in Otley, and Leeds Dental Institute. The new NHS Leeds Website provides information on NHS services in Leeds.[143]
West Yorkshire Joint Services provides analytical, archaeological, archives, ecology, materials testing and trading standards services in Leeds and the other four districts of West Yorkshire. It was created following the abolition of the county council in 1986 and expanded in 1997, and is funded by the five district councils, pro rata to their population. The Leeds site of the archives service is in the former public library at Sheepscar, Leeds.[144]
Leeds City Council is responsible for over 50 public libraries across the whole city, including 5 mobile libraries. The main be found here as an oasis amongst the city centre excitement.
A night-time scene of a dock containing a number of moored canal-boats to left and right and railings around the edges. At the front is part of a lock gate and steps leading down to the water. Around most of the dock are multi-storey modern buildings, some with lighted ground-floors and seats and decorative objects outside. The most prominent of these, at the far end, is a twenty-storey building with curving facades.


Sports

The city has teams representing all the major national sports. Leeds United A.F.C. are the city's main football club. Leeds Rh
inos (Rugby League), Leeds Carnegie (Rugby Union) and Yorkshire County Cricket Club are also based in the city. Leeds United was formed in 1919 and plays at the 40,000 capacity Elland Road in Beeston. The team play in The Championship - the second tier ofEnglish football.
Inside a stadium with grass in the foreground and rugby posts and a large three-storey roofed stand with clock at the far end. At ground-level there are steps and railings for standing patrons, and in front are a number of advertisements for the Leeds Building Society, PowerGen, Studio Jeff Banks, etc. The upper part of the stand has about fifteen rows of seats, most of them coloured blue but the others collectively spelling out the word "Carnegie". There are a small number of patrons in both sections and a few more on the top level in front of some windows at the rear. To the left of the stand is part of another three-storey building. In front of this, at the far left-hand end of the pitch, are a few drum-majorettes with pompoms.
The new Carnegie Stand at Headingley Stadium (rugby)
Leeds Rhinos are the most successful rugby leagueteam in Leeds. In 2009 they became first club to beSuper League champions three seasons running, giving them their fourth Super League title.[128] They play their home games at the Headingley Carnegie Stadium.Hunslet Hawks, based at the John Charles Centre for Sport play in Co-Operative Championship One. Bramley Buffaloes and Leeds Akkies are members of the Rugby League Conference. Leeds Carnegie, formerly known as Leeds Tykes, are the foremost rugby union team in Leeds and they play at Headingley Carnegie Stadium. They play in the Guinness Premiership, the top level of domestic rugby union in England. Otley R.U.F.C. are a rugby union club based to the north of the city and also compete in National Division One, whilstMorley R.F.C., located in Morley currently play in National Division Three North. Leeds Carnegie L.F.C. are the best-placed women's football team in Leeds, competing at the highest level in England, the FA Women's Premier League National Division.
Leeds City Athletics Club competes in the British Athletics League and UK Women's League as well as the Northern Athletics League. The city has a wealth of sports facilities including the Elland Road football stadium, a host stadium during the 1996 European Football Championship; the Headingley Carnegie Stadiums, adjacent stadia world famous for both cricket and rugby league and the John Charles Centre for Sport with an Olympic sized pool in its Aquatics Centre[129] and includes a multi-use stadium. Other facilities include the Leeds Wall (climbing) and Yeadon Tarn sailing centre. In 1929 the first Ryder Cup of Golf to be held on British soil was competed for at the Moortown Golf club in Leeds and Wetherby has a National Hunt racecourse.[130] In the period 1928 to 1939 speedway racing was staged in Leeds on a track at the greyhound stadium in Elland Road. The track entered a team in the 1931 Northern league.

Religion

The majority of people in Leeds identify themselves as Christian.[54] Leeds does not have a Church of EnglandCathedral because Leeds is part of the Anglican Diocese of Ripon and Leeds and the Cathedral for this Diocese is in Ripon; the Bishop's residence has been in Leeds since 2008. The most important Anglican church is the Leeds Parish Church. Leeds has a Roman Catholic Cathedral, the Episcopal seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Leeds. Many other Christian denominations and new religious movements are established in Leeds, including Assembly of God, Baptist, Christian Scientist, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ("Mormons"), Community of Christ, Greek Orthodox, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jesus Army, Lutheran, Methodist,Nazarene, Newfrontiers network, Pentecostal, Salvation Army, Seventh-Day Adventist, Society of Friends ("Quakers"), Unitarian, United Reformed, Vineyard, Wesleyan Church, an ecumenical Chinese church, and several independent churches.[131][132]
The proportion of Muslims in Leeds is average for the country.[54] Mosques can be found throughout the city, serving Muslim communities in Chapeltown,Harehills, Hyde Park and parts of Beeston. The largest mosque is Leeds Grand Mosque in Hyde Park. The Sikh community is represented by Gurudwaras(Temples) spread across the city, the largest being in Chapeltown. There is also a colourful religious annual procession, called the Nagar Kirtan, into Millennium Square in the city centre around 13–14 April to celebrate Baisakhi — the Sikh New Year and the birth of the religion. It is estimated that around 3,000 Sikhs in Leeds take part in this annual event.



Leeds has the third-largest Jewish community in the United Kingdom, after those of London and Manchester. The areas of Alwoodley and Moortown contain sizeable Jewish populations.[55] There are eight activesynagogues in Leeds.[133] The small Hindu community in Leeds has a temple (mandir) at Hyde Park.[134] The temple has all the major Hindu deities and is dedicated to the Lord Mahavira of the Jains.[135] Various Buddhist traditions are represented in Leeds,[136] including: FWBO,Soka Gakkai, Theravada, Tibetan and Zen. The Buddhist community (sangha) comes together to celebrate the major festival of Wesak in May. There is also a community of the Bahai Faith in Leeds.[137]

Twin towns


The City has several twinning or partnership arrangements:
The city also has "strong contacts" with the following cities "for the purposes of ongoing projects":[147]




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