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A supermarket giant launched a new service for returning sunseekers after new rules meant you could no longer buy 'duty-frees' on journeys within the European Union. Asda encouraged travellers to hop on a bus to its Pudsey store after touching down from sunnier climes. This was Leeds in June 1999, a month which saw work start on the construction of a new Cancer Research Unit at St James's Hospital. Enjoy these photos, plucked from the YEP archive, charting 30 days in the life of your city at the end of the 1990s. READ MORE:29 photos to take you back to Leeds in 1999LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA?Join Leeds Retro on facebook
7. Leeds in June 1999
Graham Draisey with a large selection of books for sale at the Oxfam bookshop on Otley Road at Headingley.
Morrisons shop assistants in traditional dress at the Hunslet store to mark the supermarket's 100th birthday. Pictured, from lefty, are Judith Dyson, Vicky Twiddle, Carol Loughlan and Catherine Hiley.
Around 60 five-a-side football teams took part in 'The Gold Cup 1999' a one day tournament at South Leeds Stadium. Pictured is goalkeeper Matthew Otley (Mary Poppins, Rothwell) beaten by a free-kick from Darrel Cameron. (Crazy Gang, Ossett). The ball went wide of the post.
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