THE LEEDS BRIEF ⏰ Tuesday, 10 November 2026
Leeds station's new front door is fully open, Asda House evacuated, a bus hits The Light, Morley's makeover starts and Muse head to Roundhay Park.
Morning, Leeds! The new front door to Leeds station is finally, fully open after years behind the hoardings. Also today: a bomb disposal team at Asda House, a bus ends up in The Light, Morley's makeover gets going, and Muse are coming to Roundhay Park.
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🚉 Leeds station's new front door is fully open
The £46.1m Station Sustainable Travel Gateway at the main entrance to Leeds City Station fully opened yesterday (Monday 9 November), after the final hoardings and barriers came down. Leeds City Council delivered it on behalf of Network Rail, with the West Yorkshire Combined Authority funding the scheme, and it was done alongside essential repairs to the station's underground supporting structure. Enabling works started in 2022 and the main engineering began in May 2023, so commuters have had a long few years of detours. With the passenger lifts tested, the lifts and steps between New Station Street and Bishopgate Street are now open, and a new taxi rank on Bishopgate Street comes into use alongside the existing one on Princes Square. Council leader James Lewis said the station handles more than 27 million passengers a year and footfall is up six per cent year on year. The council says a further £200m of government money, on top of £100m already committed, will go on transforming the station itself. Finally, a reason to look up from your phone on the way to the 08:12.
👉 Read the full story at Leeds City Council
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📰 NEWS
💣 Asda House evacuated over a suspicious package
Asda's head office on Great Wilson Street was evacuated yesterday after a suspicious package was sent to the building at about 11.15am. An Army bomb disposal team carried out a controlled explosion on it. West Yorkshire Police said nobody was harmed and there was no wider threat to the public, but Victoria Road, Meadow Lane, Neville Street, Bridge End and Great Wilson Street were closed into the evening, and Asda confirmed everyone got out safely.
👉 Read the full story at BBC News
🚌 Bus crashes into The Light on The Headrow
On a busy afternoon for the city centre, a bus mounted the kerb and hit The Light leisure complex on The Headrow at about 4.35pm yesterday. Yorkshire Ambulance Service said six people were checked over at the scene and one was taken to Leeds General Infirmary for further treatment. Albion Street was cordoned off and Merrion Street closed so the bus could be recovered, and some bus services were affected.
👉 Read the full story at BBC News
🏗️ Morley's £1.1m town centre makeover gets under way
Work has started on the £1.1m public realm scheme in Morley town centre, part of the Morley Town Deal. It focuses on the pedestrianised part of Queen Street and highway works on Commercial Street, to make the area more accessible, safer and nicer to spend time in. Council leader James Lewis said three more schemes, on Station Road, Queen Street North and Town Square, are due over the next six months.
👉 Read the full story at the YEP
⛪ Leeds Minster picks a Horsforth vicar as its new rector
Rev Jonathan Cain, Vicar of St James' Woodside in Horsforth since 2018, has been appointed the next Rector of Leeds Minster. A former civil engineer who once worked for Yorkshire Water, he trained for ordination between 2013 and 2015. He'll be licensed by the Bishop of Leeds, the Rt Rev Toby Howarth, at a service on a date still to be confirmed.
👉 Read the full story at the YEP
🛵 80mph e-bike seized in Garforth
Police community support officers have seized a modified electric bike on Barrowby Lane in Garforth that West Yorkshire Police say could reach around 80mph, faster than the motorway speed limit. That's well beyond what a legal electrically assisted pedal cycle is allowed to do, and the bike has been taken off the streets.
👉 Read the full story at the YEP
🏙️ AROUND THE CITY
🎾 Chapel Allerton tennis club wants more padel courts
Chapel Allerton Tennis and Squash Club on Wensley Avenue has applied to turn one tennis court into two padel courts, plus floodlights for two all-weather tennis courts. Its design report says its two existing padel courts, opened in 2023, are about 87 per cent booked between 9am and 9pm on weekdays, compared with about 32 per cent for its outdoor tennis courts. The club, founded in 1880, says the roughly £500,000 project is entirely self-funded. Consultation on the padel plans runs until Wednesday 25 November.
👉 Read the full story at the YEP
🍺 The Mustard Pot is back as a sports pub
The Mustard Pot in Chapel Allerton reopened on Wednesday 4 November after a £230,000 refurbishment, relaunching as a Marston's "Grandstand" sports pub. Leeds Live says it now has multiple big screens, a new sound system, tiered seating, TVs in the refurbished beer garden and local sports memorabilia on the walls. So that's where everyone will be for the next Leeds game.
👉 Read the full story at Leeds Live
🚑 Arena show paused for a medical incident
Myles Smith's show at the First Direct Bank Arena on Sunday night was briefly paused while staff dealt with a medical incident in the crowd. The arena thanked the artist and fans for their patience, and a concertgoer told the YEP the show restarted after around ten minutes.
👉 Read the full story at the YEP
🚦 GETTING ABOUT
🚲 Westgate Connector works start, with 24/7 lane closures
Construction has started on the £6m Westgate Connector, funded by Active Travel England, bringing a two-way segregated cycle lane, better crossings and redesigned junctions along Burley Street, Park Lane and Westgate. The council says more than 4,200 people walk, wheel or cycle along Burley Street every day, and there were 39 reported casualties on the route between 2021 and 2025, seven of them serious. From this week there are 24/7 lane closures, with signed diversions and temporary bus stops where needed. Work for the first four weeks is mainly 7.30am to 5pm on weekdays, at the Park Lane/Hanover Way junction, near Rutland Mount and at Westgate Point.
👉 Read the full story at Leeds City Council
⚽ SPORT
Trafford and Calvert-Lewin off with England
James Trafford and Dominic Calvert-Lewin are both in the England squad for the games against Spain and Croatia over the international break. Thomas Tuchel said Jordan Pickford is still his number one, but hinted Trafford could get another chance, as the two keepers shared the matches last time. The YEP says Trafford has five clean sheets for Leeds this season.
👉 Read the full story at the YEP
Guiseley draw Notts County in the FA Cup
Guiseley AFC, from football's seventh tier, will host League One Notts County in the FA Cup second round, on the weekend starting Friday 4 December. Second-round winners get £79,500 in prize money and the losers £21,200, so it's a big one for Nethermoor.
👉 Read the full story at BBC Sport
🎭 CULTURE
🎸 Muse to headline Roundhay Park next summer
Muse are the first headliner confirmed for the 2027 Roundhay Festival, playing Roundhay Park on Sunday 27 June, with Nothing But Thieves among the support. It's the second year of the festival, run by AEG Presents with Leeds City Council. Tickets go on general sale at 10am this Friday (13 November) via the Roundhay Festival website. Muse have played Leeds plenty before, including three Leeds Festival headline slots.
👉 Read the full story at Leeds City Council
🎶 A big Saturday at the Brudenell
Two all-dayers at the Brudenell this Saturday (14 November): the Seventh Sun Festival, with Artio, Omoia, Helle and more, doors 1pm, £19.50 in advance; and DORKs Day Out, with Panic Shack, Cowboy Hunters, Ain't and more, doors 5pm, £23 in advance.
👉 Read more: Seventh Sun Festival · DORKs Day Out
📅 THIS WEEK IN LEEDS
🎖️ Wednesday, 11am: Armistice Day two-minute silence.
🎸 Wednesday, 7.30pm: Gently Tender at the Brudenell.
🎤 Thursday, 7.30pm: Bloodsports at Oporto (a Brudenell show).
🎟️ Friday, 10am: Muse at Roundhay Park tickets on general sale.
🎶 Saturday: Seventh Sun Festival and DORKs Day Out at the Brudenell.
🌳 Tuesday 24 November, 1pm to 3pm: tree planting in Bramley Park (free, book ahead).
Sources: Brudenell · Leeds City Council · West Leeds Dispatch
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🔺 AND FINALLY...
Mysterious triangles marked out and cordoned off at the top of Bramley Park, near the rugby pitch, got people speculating online over the weekend. West Leeds Dispatch has solved it: they're the work of the council's Woodland Creation Team, ready for a tree planting session on Tuesday 24 November, 1pm to 3pm. Residents are invited to help, so bring wellies and clothes you don't mind getting muddy. Not aliens, then. Just trees.
👉 Read the full story at West Leeds Dispatch
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