Traffic, transport and travel were the focus of commuter frustrations around the city. Your YEP highlighted the issue of packed commuter trains, rail delays and congestion. This was 2003, a year which also signalled the end of an era for the landmark Royal Mail building on Wellington Street and work starting for a new clinical centre for cancer research in the city. Enjoy these photos, plucked from the YEP archive, charting a year in the life of Leeds in the early 2000s. READ MORE: 33 closed Leeds pubs which will stir fond memories for drinkers LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook
7. Leeds in 2003
This is Cardinal Crescent Youth Club leader Yvonne Crowther who impressed Prime Minister Tony Blair when he visited the centre. Photo: Jonathan Gawthorpe
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9. Leeds in 2003
December 2003 and work started on building a new Cancer research UK Clinical Centre at St James's Hospital. Photo: Mel Hulme
10. Leeds in 2003
July 2003 and the end of an era for the Royal Mail Office on Wellington Street in the city centre. Photo: Simon Hulme
11. Leeds in 2003
Jane Tomlinson and Tracey Barraclough get the Race For Life at Temple Newsam underway in June 2003. Photo: Jonathan Gawthorpe
12. Leeds in 2003
Fed up commuters wait at Burley Station for the next train into Leeds in October 2003. Photo: James Hardisty