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In total 25 tons of bombs fell on Leeds during the raid, a quarter of the 100 tons often used as the threshold for a "major raid". [ 11 ] [ 17 ] By comparison, that night in Glasgow 203 aircraft dropped 231 tons of high explosives, nearly ten times the amount dropped on Leeds, and 1,650 incendiary canisters, while in nearby Sheffield 117 ...
Leeds United Football Club is a professional football club based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. The club competes in the Championship , the second tier of English football . Leeds United have won the League Championship three times, four Second Division titles, the FA Cup once, the League Cup once, the Charity Shield twice and the Inter ...
Elland Road, home of Leeds United AFC, has a 39,640 capacity, all-seater stadium [21] on Elland Road, adjacent to the M621 in the north of Beeston. The South Leeds Stadium, part of the John Charles Centre for Sport is situated on Middleton Grove (off Dewsbury Road) on the
Detectives have launched an attempted murder investigation after a man suffered serious head injuries in an attack in Leeds. ... Beeston, were attacked by a lone suspect just after 20:30 GMT on ...
Khan detonated his bomb on the number 216 train, killing seven people, including himself. Shehzad Tanweer, aged 22. Also lived in Beeston, Leeds, occasionally working in his mother and father's fish and chip shop on Lodge Lane, Beeston. He detonated his bomb on the number 204 train. Eight people, including Tanweer, were killed by the explosion.
Elland Road, also called Elland Road Football Stadium or Elland Road Stadium, is a football stadium in Beeston, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, which has been the home of Championship club Leeds United since the club's formation in 1919. [4] The stadium is the 13th largest football stadium in England.
Shehzad Tanweer (15 December 1982 – 7 July 2005) [1] was a British Pakistani who was one of four Islamist terrorists who detonated explosives in three trains on the London Underground and one bus in central London during the 7 July 2005 London bombings. 52 people were killed, plus the 4 bombers themselves, and over 700 wounded in the attacks.
The statue of Billy Bremner, who played for Leeds United between 1959 and 1976 and captained them to cup success in 1968 and 1972. Leeds United Football Club were founded in October 1919, taking the place in the Midland League vacated by Leeds City Reserves, and were elected to The Football League for the 1920–21 season. They won the Second Division title four years later to gain promotion ...