Do you remember these stories and issues making the news in Leeds in the year 2000?Do you remember these stories and issues making the news in Leeds in the year 2000?
Do you remember these stories and issues making the news in Leeds in the year 2000?

16 photos that will take you back to Leeds in 2000

Do you remember these news memories from Leeds back in 2000?
By Andrew Hutchinson
Published 11th Nov 2019, 17:00 BST
Updated 16th Nov 2019, 11:33 BST

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Your city has undergone some huge changes in the last twenty years. We've dug through our archive at the Yorkshire Evening Post to find these photos take you back to Leeds in 2000, a year which featured tragedy, near misses, new beginnings and TV classics. READ MORE: Leeds in 1999 | Leeds in 1998 LOVE LEEDS LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join the Leeds Retro facebook group

This is Catylyst, one of the Leeds bands entered into the city council's Bright Young Things 2000 competition. Pictured (left, top, bottom) are Chris May, Steve Walduck and Ian Fenton.

7. May 2000

This is Catylyst, one of the Leeds bands entered into the city council's Bright Young Things 2000 competition. Pictured (left, top, bottom) are Chris May, Steve Walduck and Ian Fenton. Photo: Justin Lloyd

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Did you watch Fergal Keane's Forgotten Britain? The series saw the BBC correspondent turn his attention to the socially excluded. In the second programme he visited a housing estate in Leeds.

8. May 2000

Did you watch Fergal Keane's Forgotten Britain? The series saw the BBC correspondent turn his attention to the socially excluded. In the second programme he visited a housing estate in Leeds. Photo: PA

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Leeds's own TV presenter Carol Vorderman was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to broadcasting in the birthday honours,

9. June 2000

Leeds's own TV presenter Carol Vorderman was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to broadcasting in the birthday honours, Photo: PA

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Passengers are evacuated from a train after the middle carriage of the passenger train caught fire at the old Armley railway station on Canal Road. Nobody was injured and around 50 passengers were evacuated.

10. September 2000

Passengers are evacuated from a train after the middle carriage of the passenger train caught fire at the old Armley railway station on Canal Road. Nobody was injured and around 50 passengers were evacuated. Photo: Ian Day

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A Leeds boat (third from left) was among those from the Times Clipper 2000 fleet who set off from Portsmouth for the start of their round the world yacht race.

11. October 2000

A Leeds boat (third from left) was among those from the Times Clipper 2000 fleet who set off from Portsmouth for the start of their round the world yacht race. Photo: PA

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18 million signing Rio Ferdinand is introduced to the supporters at Elland Road before the FA Premiership match against Arsenal.

12. November 2000

18 million signing Rio Ferdinand is introduced to the supporters at Elland Road before the FA Premiership match against Arsenal. Photo: PA

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