A ground-breaking inquiry was held inside the Queens Hotel with MPs (pictured above), police chiefs and substance abuse co-ordinators having open discussions on how best to tackle a problem which was not only killing hundreds every day but destroying entire communities in the process. This was October 2001, a time which offered a new hope that by bringing together the most high-profile panel ever convened in the city, real inroads can be made in formulating a local and national anti-drugs strategy. Your YEP played its part by running a series of hard-hitting features on the issue. READ MORE: Go inside the Corn Exchange during the 1990s and 2000s LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook
13. Leeds in October 2001
Mark Waterhouse (left) and Jim Drake are served lunch by waitress Katie Dales at the opening day of Browns restaurant on The Headrow. Photo: Simon Hulme
14. Leeds in October 2001
Up-and-coming Leeds boxer Levi Pattison is pictured in the ring at Hunslet Boys Club. Photo: James Hardisty
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