Fears are mounting that children could drown in a ‘crater’ left by a developer. Residents of The Pastures estate, in East Ardsley, were shocked to find two steep-sided dry detention beds had been dug from a meadow on the development last year. Bloor Homes, who are responsible for the landscaping, responded to complaints of rubble and fly tipping on the field last year by digging the drainage beds [...]

A kind-hearted grandmother threw herself out of a plane to raise thousands of pounds for a new specially adapted sailing boat. Youngsters and adults who attend Otley Sailing Club near Leeds took to the waters in the aptly named Freefall to help celebrate the boat’s launch. Brave Marlene Stephens decided she would love nothing better than freefalling out of an aeroplane to celebrate her 70th birthday [...]

POLICE officers spent four hours coaxing a man out of the River Aire after it is believed he threw himself in off a bridge. The man, thought to be aged in his late 30s, had refused to leave the water, which he had entered off Redcote Lane behind the Netto store on Kirkstall Road in Leeds shortly after 10.30am on Saturday. Firefighters had managed to restrain him using a rope and get him into a life [...]