Politics

A woman whose petition to revoke Article 50 and stay in the EU gained more than four million signatures in just days says she’s since received three death threats over the phone, as well as a “torrent of abuse on Facebook”.

Pro-Brexit 'go-slow' lorry protesters set to target Yorkshire's roads today could attract police attention after officers in the south of the country prosecuted drivers involved.

A pro-Brexit march promoted by Nigel Farage which has been travelling across the UK has been told it is not welcome at National Trust properties.

An online petition calling on Parliament to revoke Article 50, which gained signatures so quickly the website crashed, has reached almost three million supporters.

From: James Bovington, Church Grove, Horsforth, Leeds.

IT is a sad and sorry sign of the times when traffic wardens in Wakefield are to be given body cameras for their own safety following a rise in verbal and physical assaults described as “alarming” by police and civic leaders in the city.

Early plans for a vast new complex of more than 1,000 flats just outside Leeds City Centre are set to go before planning chiefs in the city next week.

Plans to build more than 120 homes in an area of south Leeds have been given the green light by a government planning inspector – just months after being turned down by Leeds councillors.0

Theresa May is facing a backlash from MPs as she heads to Brussels to appeal to EU leaders to grant her a delay to Brexit.

Theresa May is writing to the European Union today to ask for a delay to Brexit beyond the scheduled date of March 29.

THIS region’s long-suffering rail passengers were among the first to realise that the Department for Transport was devoid of “strategic direction and leadership under Chris Grayling – his reputation has not recovered since he challenged this region to sort out its own difficulties as he prioritised a second Crossrail line for London.

The story of children’s services at Leeds City Council in recent years is a remarkable one.

Leeds North West MP Alex Sobel gave an impassioned speech at the youth climate change protest at Leeds Town Hall today.

OUR thoughts and prayers are with the 49 people who have been killed, and dozens more who have been injured, after a gunman opened fire at mosques in New Zealand during Friday prayers.

Villagers in south Leeds have warned that their community has become “a zombie commuter belt”, as they remain in the dark about proposals to build 299 homes on greenfield land.