- LEEDS is now officially the UK's biggest financial and business services centre outside London. (Yorkshire Post, Feb 2007)
- LEEDS has created more jobs than any other UK centre in the past 20 years and now has 442,000 employees, with a total population pool of 2m within a 30 minute drive of the city centre.
- Thanks to it's nightlife, shops, restaurants and museums, Leeds was voted the best English city to visit outside London by readers of Conde Nast Traveller last year.
- Nealry £3 billion in property schemes - residential, business and industrial - have been completed in Leeds in the past 10 years; £1.5 billion are under construction.
- Leeds City centre has been known as "the Knightsbridge of the North" since Harvey Nichols opened it's first store outside London there 10 years ago.
(The Times 9th March 2006)
- For the first time, Leeds, with a total of 109,060 workers, has overtaken Birmingham (106,279) and is ahead of Glasgow (105,642), Edinburgh (104,738) and Manchester (82,779). Yorkshire Post Feb. 2007
- Leeds has 719,000 residents - the second largest of any metropolitan district in England.
- Leeds is the birthplace of major brands such as Marks and Spencer and Burtons.
- Sporting champions Leeds Rhinos and Leeds Tykes share the world famous Headingley Carnegie Stadium with the Yorkshire Countty Cricket team.
- It's said that Leeds City art gellary has probably the best collection of 20th Cenury British art outside London.
- The Leeds city cente is less than 20 miles from the Yorkshire Dales National Park.
(Yorkshire Life - April 2006)
