David Spereall Local Democracy Reporter
  • Leeds
  • National World

David started covering Leeds City Council as a Local Democracy Reporter in 2022, having covered Wakefield for the Local Democracy Reporting Service for the previous four years. He has also worked as a journalist in Hull, Kirklees and Morley.

Published In

Yorkshire Evening Post, Leeds Live, Yorkshire Live

766 Articles
9 months ago
yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk

SEND Reform: Leeds parents to stage Millennium Square protest as 'so many children being failed'

A protest highlighting a lack of state support for autistic and disabled children will be held in Leeds.

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9 months ago
yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk

Leeds e-bike scheme: Every docking station across the city as launch date confirmed

Leeds’ new e-bike scheme will launch on September 15, council papers have confirmed.

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9 months ago
yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk

TJ's Pizza Leeds: Takeaway boss wants double yellow lines to stop yobs causing chaos on Kirkstall...

A Leeds takeaway boss has hit out at rude and abrasive quadbiker gangs for causing misery outside his pizza shop.

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9 months ago
yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk

Seacroft Hospital: Claims huge east Leeds homes development forcing residents to live in 'disastr...

There has been “disastrous” disruption to people’s lives as a result of a large-scale housebuilding project in east L...

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9 months ago
yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk

Back Nine Golf Leeds: New simulator where players can experience St Andrews course to open in Gui...

A new golf simulator, where players can enjoy a virtual round at some of the world’s most famous courses, is set to o...

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9 months ago
yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk

Allerton Bywater: Fears of 'devastation' if West Yorkshire battery farms are approved

Villagers across south-east Leeds have vowed to fight plans to build two battery storage farms less than a mile apart.

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9 months ago
yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk

Leeds City Council fined £1500 after young girl goes without education for 18 months

Leeds City Council has been ordered to pay £1,500 in compensation to the mum of a young girl, after she went 18 month...

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9 months ago
yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk

Beeston Methodist Church: Plans submitted to transform old Leeds church into community centre and...

Plans to breathe new life into an old South Leeds church, which has been empty for more than a decade, have been put ...

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9 months ago
yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk

Leeds council finally settles eight-year dispute with Instaplanta as it faced £1m lost earnings

Leeds City Council has reached a financial settlement with a local roadside advertising business, following an eight-...

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9 months ago
leeds-live.co.uk

Leeds' BBC TV police station to be bulldozed for flats

The police station was featured in BBC's Better

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9 months ago
leeds-live.co.uk

Residents claim school 3G pitch would cause ‘bedlam in Guiseley’

The plans have been put on hold due to the upset

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10 months ago
yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk

TK Restaurant Harehills: Leeds eatery denied alcohol licence over 'long history' of crime at prem...

A new restaurant has failed in its bid to secure an alcohol licence, after police claimed it was a front for the owne...

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