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Leeds University most popular institution for drug users as eight out of ten undergraduates admit...
The vast majority of students at British universities have experimented with drugs with70 per cent saying they have tried illegal substances at least once in their lives, a survey has found.
dailymail.co.uk (5 hours ago)

Accident on Garden State Parkway in Galloway Township
GALLOWAY--Police are at the scene of a car accident just south of the Jimmie Leeds interchange of the Garden State Parkway.
pressofatlanticcity.com (7 hours ago)

Brian Greenhoff, former Manchester United and England defender, dies
Brian Greenhoff, the former Manchester United and England defender has died, aged 60. Greenhoff made 271 appearances for the Red Devils and won 18 caps. Born in Barnsley, Greenhoff joined United as a youth player in 1968 and was part of the United team that won the old second division title in 1975. Two seasons...
guardian.co.uk (7 hours ago)

New Zealand look to prey upon England's pre‑Ashes tension
There will be a hint of Fawlty Towers in England's approach to the second Test against New Zealand this week, with Andy Flower adopting the role of John Cleese to insist that his players do not mention the Ashes. But Nick Compton and Jonny Bairstow, the two batsmen battling for one place in the series that must not...
guardian.co.uk (8 hours ago)

How the Spiders from Hull changed rock
David Bowie's performance of Starman on Top of the Pops on 6 July 1972 was a pop year zero, which inspired the likes of Ian McCulloch, Gary Kemp and Boy George to start pop careers, and which changed the way some people looked, thought and acted overnight. Even looking at it now, 39 years on, you can feel something...
guardian.co.uk (8 hours ago)

Emmerdale actor Richard Thorp dies aged 81
The actor, who played pensioner Alan Turner in the ITV soap, passed away in Leeds.
dailymail.co.uk (11 hours ago)

Live Q&A: Starting up - and surviving - in the fashion industry
If you're starting a fashion business, it seems that London is the perfect place to do it. The city was recently ranked fashion capital of the world for the second consecutive year by the American analytics company Global Language Monitor. You can see why: students flock from all over the world to study at...
guardian.co.uk (14 hours ago)

Danny Cipriani exclusive interview: I've been spoilt and arrogant it is time to grow up
Danny Cipriani speaks exclusively to Sportsmail for the first time since he was badly injured after being hit by a bus in Leeds on a drunken night out. Now on the road to recovery, the Sale fly-half talks openly about how in the past he was arrogant, egotistical and spoilt, and how it is time to grow up.
dailymail.co.uk (23 hours ago)

The Knowledge | Football dressing-room misadventures
"After the recent escapades at Brighton, have there been any other high-profile dressing-room misdeeds?" asks Victoria Jenson. We start, Victoria, at Upton Park in May 1999 and a fiery game between West Ham and Leeds. The two sides were both battling to qualify for the Uefa Cup and Leeds took the lead inside a...
guardian.co.uk (1 day ago)

Paddy Fraser obituary
In her lifetime, my mother, Paddy Fraser, who has died aged 94, probably met almost every 20th-century poet of significance writing in English. She was born Eileen Lucy Andrew (but was known as Paddy from birth) in Leeds, and attended Thoresby high school. She then won an exhibition to read English at St Anne's...
guardian.co.uk (1 day ago)

Newly qualified driver, 18, quoted £33,000 to insure her £400 Daewoo Matiz
Kaljeet Bansal, from Leeds, said she thought she must have made a mistake after seeing the astronomical quote on her laptop screen from insurance company Flux Direct.
dailymail.co.uk (1 day ago)

Brown proud of Saints comeback
St Helens coach Nathan Brown praises his team's character as they come from 16-0 down to win at Leeds Rhinos.
bbci.co.uk (1 day ago)

Ian Bell and Graeme Swann fit as England unchanged for second Test
Ian Bell and Graeme Swann have both recovered from illness in time to be named in England's unchanged squad this morning for the second Investec Test against New Zealand at Headingley. Both were expected to be included again after England's first-Test victory. Bell, who was suffering with a bout of flu, was the...
guardian.co.uk (1 day ago)

The woman on a mission to expose sexual abuse
Anna Hall is nothing if not patient. It was 17 years ago, over a cup of coffee in her adopted home city of Leeds, when she first heard that some British Pakistani men were grooming, raping and trafficking young white girls. She immediately knew she should bring the evidence to a wider public, yet it took three years...
guardian.co.uk (1 day ago)

Brown urges Saints to kick on
St Helens coach Nathan Brown is hoping his side's 30-22 win over Leeds on Monday night can kick-start their flagging Super League campaign.
standard.co.uk (1 day ago)

Leeds 22 St Helens 30: Makinson inspires Saints to topple champions Leeds which sees them snap...
Tommy Makinson scored twice as brave St Helens came back from the dead to end a five-match losing streak and ease the pressure on coach Nathan Brown.
dailymail.co.uk (2 days ago)

Leeds 22 St Helens 30: match report
St Helens end their five-match losing streak with a sensational comeback victory.
telegraph.co.uk (2 days ago)

Leeds 22-30 St Helens | Super League match report
St Helens halted their five-match losing run in sensational style, coming from 16-0 behind to topple Super League champions Leeds with a third consecutive win at Headingley. Saints looked certain to register their worst run for 34 years after an abject first quarter in which their confidence appeared to be at rock...
guardian.co.uk (2 days ago)

Saints fightback stuns Rhinos
St Helens halted their five-match losing run in sensational style, coming from 16-0 down to topple Super League champions Leeds with a 30-22 win at Headingley.
standard.co.uk (2 days ago)
Leeds Rhinos 22 St Helens 30: St Helens claw their way out of abyss
St Helens stared into the abyss and somehow came up with the victory that prevented the ignominy of the club’s...
thetimes.co.uk (2 days ago)

Leeds 22-30 St Helens
Tommy Makinson's 14-point haul helps St Helens come back from 16-0 to beat Super League champions Leeds at Headingley
bbci.co.uk (2 days ago)
Leeds girl’s vehicle flips twice, lands on roof in Route 219 accident
WAYNE, Maine - A Leeds teenager is lucky to be alive after her vehicle flipped over in Wayne on Sunday, police said. Katherine Boyman, 17, was driving east on Route 219 shortly after 1 p.m. when she lost control of her vehicle near the intersection with Stricklin Ferry Road, Lt. ...
bangordailynews.com (2 days ago)

Customs officers find live Asian fighting birds in suitcases after smugglers flew them into Britain
Two separate attempts to smuggle the nine grey francolin birds into the UK were discovered at Leeds Bradford Airport. They had been placed in individual wooden cages inside the cases.
dailymail.co.uk (2 days ago)
Leeds girl 'lucky to be alive' after crash
WAYNE, Maine (AP) - Police say a 17-year-old Leeds girl is "lucky to be alive" after suffering only minor injuries in a spectacular rollover crash in Wayne.
boston.com (2 days ago)
Maine teen injured in rollover 'very fortunate to be alive'
A Leeds teen is injured Sunday when her SUV hurtles end-over-end on Route 219 in Wayne.
pressherald.com (2 days ago)

TV highlights 20/05/2013
After being halted by Huddersfield in the fifth round of the Challenge Cup last weekend, Leeds will be keen to get back to winning ways against a St Helens team that has struggled all season, losing against Widnes and London Broncos recently. St Helens coach Nathan Brown has put his faith in young players this...
guardian.co.uk (2 days ago)
NZ Media Muted in Critique of First Test Loss
New Zealand's media were muted in their reaction to their side being bundled out for just 68 runs to give England a 170-run victory in the first test at Lord's on Sunday, instead turning their focus towards the second match in Leeds.
nytimes.com (2 days ago)

Lord's proves a treacherous place for New Zealand's batsmen | Vic Marks
So Lord's is the new Headingley. OK, the pavilions do not have much in common and the maroon trouser with cheeks to match are seldom in evidence at Leeds. But Lord's is a place where mystical forces can suddenly coincide to make batting seemingly impossible. Now it can be a more treacherous place than Yorkshire's...
guardian.co.uk (3 days ago)

Is this nurse serving 30 years for murders that never happened? Compelling new evidence suggests...
Glasgow-born Colin Norris (pictured) was jailed in 2008 for the murder of Ethel Hall, Bridget Bourke, Doris Ludlam and Irene Crooks, and the attempted murder of Vera Wilby at two Leeds hospitals.
dailymail.co.uk (4 days ago)

Paolo Di Canio says his arrival saved Sunderland from going down
Paolo Di Canio is convinced Sunderland would have been relegated if he had not replaced Martin O'Neill at the end of March and believes his disciplinarian approach to management can bring success to Wearside next season. "I have to be honest, yes I think we would have gone down," said Sunderland's ever-candid...
guardian.co.uk (4 days ago)