WHO’S that jolly red nosed character in the photograph above? Swap the sheep for reindeer and the overalls for a red and white suit and maybe I could just about pass for a cut price Father Christmas. OK, please yourselves. This was me yesterday morning helping feed the sheep on my friend Sir Gary Verity’s […]
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A FRUSTRATED and confused visitor to Leeds, who had found themselves stuck on the ‘Loop’ road around the city centre, once told me they now didn’t fear going to hell after death. No, he solemnly told me, purgatory would be circling the city of Leeds in his car in an endless doom loop, never finding
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I ALWAYS thought the way to encourage people not to take their cars into city centres was to focus on improving public transport. Leeds City Council appears to have decided on a more cost effective approach. Dig up the city’s main square, make diversion instructions unintelligible and put roadworks and temporary traffic lights on most
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