Children at Mount St Mary's Catholic High School in Richmond Hill came together to help and your YEP was on hand to capture the rainbow of colours on camera. This was April 1999, a month in which Leeds showed its caring side providing a home for dozens of refugees from war-torn Kosovo. And continuning the charitable theme staff from an airline carrier took part in a sponsored aircraft pull at Leeds and Bradford Airport to raise funds for the NSPCC. READ MORE: Leeds in April 1997 - 14 stories making the news LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook
13. Leeds in April 1999
A plane carrying the first Kosovo refugees to arrive in come to Britain since the outbreak of war landed at Leeds Bradford Airport. Photo: PA
14. Leeds in April 1999
Pictured is Ian Keith with one of three models of the proposed millennium village for Allerton Bywater. Photo: Justin Lloyd
15. Leeds in April 1999
This is Jayne Taylor (left) and Caroline Senior who did a sponsored jail break and got to Monza near Milan.
16. Leeds in April 1999
HRH the Prince of Wales at the launch of the Yorkshire and Humber Right to Read program at the YEP. He is pictured talking with Ashlie David and Monique Gatewood-Esdaille. Photo: Bruce Rollinson
17. Leeds in 1999
A sofa car drives through Leeds. Photo: Dan Oxtoby
18. Leeds in April 1999
Osmondthorpe Resource Centre was celebrating its 10th anniversary. Pictured, left to right, are centre users Paul Heart and Wendy Fletcher.