Just one more week and 150 signups needed to get a new local paper in Leeds and West Yorks! We are crying out for ad-free, genuinely local investigative journalism.
Their sister stories have broken nationally important stories in the last few months. What stories do we have that deserve daylight?
Can you boost? Do you know someone who would be interested? Please share!
And talking of melting ice caps, the latest (half-hourly) electricity generation fuel sources for our region look distinctly dinosaur-powered...
Carbon-zero Fuel Percentage 6.3%
Fossil Fuel Percentage 93.7%
Having seen the work that the Manchester Mill and Sheffield Tribune do, I really believe in the importance of actual local journalism, both for uncovering stories which need to be told and for helping communities maintain a sense of place.
They need 400 more members to set up in Leeds, so spread the word!
https://leeds.ghost.io/the-case-for-a-new-quality-newspaper-in-leeds/

West Yorkshire has a glorious journalism history. Help us to open a new chapter For decades, visitors arriving from the west could be under no illusions: Leeds was a newspaper city. Appearing like a vast concrete fortress, the Yorkshire Post headquarters on Wellington Street was the first thing you saw