Leeds

The Coat of arms of Leeds City Council derives its design from the seventeenth century.
Leeds shown within West Yorkshire

Leeds, city, in the metropolitan county of West Yorkshire, northern England, on the Aire River. Leeds is located between an agricultural region to the north and east and a manufacturing region to the south and west and serves as the area's commercial and industrial hub.
River Aire waterfront
Park Square and Leeds Town Hall

Excellent rail, road, and canal facilities make it an important distribution point. The city is also a major center for the manufacture and wholesale trade of clothing. Other manufactures include electric equipment, paper products, and metal goods.
The City enjoys excellent communications with the rest of the country.

Located here are a civic theater, the City Art Gallery (1888), and the City Museums (1820).
Leeds City Art Gallery offers a wide variety of exhibitions and also houses the new, internationally famous Henry Moore Centre for the
Study of Sculpture.
Grand Theatre

Abbey House Museum
Leeds City Museum

There are many fine golf courses in the Leeds area and the City's parks include more than 160 tennis courts as well as pitches for rugby, cricket, soccer and hockey.
Headingley Golf Club
Leeds United F.C. Stadium

City Varieties Music Hall
The City Varieties Music Hall, which hosted performances by Charlie Chaplin and Harry Houdini and was also the venue of the BBC television programme The Good Old Days, and West Yorkshire Playhouse.

Leeds University Union
Leeds is the seat of the University of Leeds (1904), Leeds Metropolitan University (1992, formerly a polytechnic college), and Leeds Trinity University which began in 1966 as two teacher training colleges which merged in 1980 to form Trinity and All Saints College and became a university in 2012.

Leeds Central Library
Leeds City Council is responsible for over 50 public libraries across the whole city, including 5 mobile libraries. The main Central Library is located on the Headrow in the city center.

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 Wetherby 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 Met from Leeds Metropolitan University.
Regional television and radio stations have bases in the city; BBC Television and ITV both have regional studios and broadcasting centers in Leeds.
BBC Radio Leeds, Radio Aire, Magic 828, Capital Yorkshire, Real Radio and Yorkshire Radio broadcast from the city.

Leeds Carnival is Western Europe's oldest West Indian Carnival, and the UK's second largest after Notting Hill Carnival.[150][151] 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.