Pasta Romagna’s Gilda Porcelli is also credited with helping create Leeds’s now booming cafe bar culture. Yet she failed to hit the high notes when she received a letter from council bosses in asking her to keep the noise down. This was 2001, a year which also featured shoppers seeing The Light for the first time with the opening of the leisure and retail complex in the city centre. Enjoy these photo memories, plucked from the YEP archive and others published courtesy of photographic archive Leodis, which is run by Leeds Library & Information Service, charting a year in the life of your city. READ MORE: 26 Leeds publicans you may remember from the early 2000s LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook
7. Leeds in 2001
The Liz Dawn Cancer Appeal Charity Gala was held at The Grand Theatre in March 2001. Liz is pictured with the Manhatton Dancers, Leila Elvidge (left) and Kay Stott. Photo: Dan Oxtoby
8. Leeds in 2001
West Yorkshire Trading Standards Proof of Age Partnership was officially launched at Elland Road in November 2001. Pictured is Copperfields College pupil Stacey Thistlewood with Linda Davis, Trading Standards enforcement officer, and West Yorkshire Police Chief Supt Andrew Rennison. Photo: Dan Oxtoby
9. Leeds in 2001
Leeds United legend John Charles kicks off a pre-season friendly against Harrogate Town in August 2001. Photo: Graham Lindley
10. Leeds in 2001
Head teacher Ann Philips with pupils at Cross Flatts Park Primary School in Beeston, which is the most improved in Leeds. Photo: Dan Oxtoby
11. Leeds in 2001
Prime Minister Tony Blair puts on his glasses before addressing business leaders at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in May 2001. Photo: Mark Bickerdike
12. Leeds in 2001
St Gemma's Hospice was celebrating after reaching the £1million stage of its Home from Home Appeal in July 2001. The appeal was backed by your YEP and was now two thirds of the way to the target. Pictured are Edwin Englands, who attended the hospice one day a week and staff nurse Alison Byrnes. Photo: James Hardisty