Members of the Leeds University Union women's hockey team encouraged partygoers to dress up as 'lower class' people and that 'ASBO behaviour' was expected during their social night.

Students and staff at the Headingley campus of Leeds Beckett University were warned to stay indoors while David Riley, 36, remained on the loose.

Armed police are searching for an axeman in Leeds' student district and members of the public have been warned not to approach him.

Leeds University Union women's hockey club were also banned from matches after they were given a 'lower class' dress code for their night out.

Police officer Patrick Hannon, 30, and public sector worker Jake Archer, 25, from Newcastle, say they were discriminated against by Jake's Bar in Leeds.

Rocco Wright, three, drowned after he was reportedly found face down at the bottom of a David Lloyd club's pool on Saturday in Leeds.

Joyce Sugden was shocked to receive a demand for payment for exceeding a three-hour free parking limit at the Leeds Road Retail Park in Huddersfield - because she hadn't parked there.

Jordan Burling, 18, of Farnley, Leeds, died as a result of malnutrition in June 2016. He weighed around six stones when paramedics found him lying on a filthy mattress, wearing a soiled nappy.

Rather than focusing on Gareth Southgate's tactical changes, a cameraman seemed more interested in the presenter sat behind the bench during the England v Costa Rica match.

The midfielder was in the tunnel at the Leeds ground at Elland Road with his team-mates as they prepared to face Costa Rica when the youngster started performing the latest dance craze.

Prince Edward's wife, née Rhys-Jones, embraced the warmer weather in a midnight blue fit-and-flare dress featuring a pretty daisy pattern during her visit to Yorkshire on Monday.

Vet Gary Samuel, 49, was banned from keeping animals for life and struck off after inspectors found 24 dogs and eight cats to starve in his cellar at his surgery in Leeds, west Yorkshire.

Leeds-based Headingley Market inadvertently kicked off a national debate when tweeting an animation which showed a teapot being poured with milk already in it.

Ian Ossia, of Leeds, saw the creature marching around inside the monitor of the Apple MacBook Pro after he bought it for £5,000 in March.

The video was shared to Twitter soon after the end of Reading and Leeds Festival. It has been widely condemned online with some questioning the safety of the man's actions.

Terrasa Bolton claims that her American bulldog Narla was killed needlessly after the pet ran over to eight officers as they arrived at her home to arrest her partner.

The move to Leeds (pictured) is part of the biggest change to the channel's structure in its 35-year history, even though it will keep its base on Horseferry Road in London.

From the Christmas General Election to a solid gold toilet being stolen from inside Blenheim Palace, this year has been packed with inimitable stories.

Ben Jones, 30, has been jailed for stealing £370,000 from his employer to fund his habit after chatty emails from Betway 'VIP manager' Simon Kent led him to stake £1million.

There are any number of variables which determine the winner of the world's greatest horse race, yet connections of Tiger Roll seem fixated he has been handed a pound or two more than is reasonable.

The British defence of next month's Magners Cheltenham Gold Cup has been weakened after 2018 winner Native River was ruled out of the race.

Dual Grand National winning jockey Leighton Aspell will retire after riding at Fontwell on Sunday. Aspell, 43, will ride Ventura Dragon (4.20) and Itsnotwhatyouthink (5.20) for two of his biggest fans.

Held on Ladies Day at the Aintree festival, the summit brings women in sport and business together to discuss how they continue to break down barriers and inspire others to follow suit.

Fergal O'Brien landed the Marston's Midlands Grand National with Chase The Spud three years ago and Petite Power (Uttoxeter, 3.35) could strike again for the affable Gloucestershire trainer.

Presenter Ed Chamberlin says he hopes ITV broadcasting racing from Ireland on Saturday will be a tonic for sports fans in a barren live sporting landscape.

The bookmaking industry are close to announcing a plan to bet on Saturday's Virtual Reality Grand National with any profits made going to the NHS Charities Group.

EXCLUSIVE BY DOMINIC KING AND MATT HUGHES: The cancellation of Saturday's Randox Health Grand National will cost almost half a billion pounds in lost revenue.

The first Saturday in April could have been one of the biggest days in racing in recent memory, but this year's Grand National will instead be held virtually. Here, Sportsmail's Sam Turner provides his tips...

Ahead of Saturday's Virtual Grand National programme on ITV which also includes a Race of Champions, Sportsmail's MARCUS TOWNEND relives 10 of the Greatest Grand Nationals.

DOMINIC KING: It's the jarring sight of the Blue Anchor that first strikes you. This huge pub, a furlong from the Melling Road, is usually such a bouncing venue for the three days.

MARCUS TOWNEND: We've had the void Grand National, the bomb scare Grand National and dramas like Devon Loch collapsing on the run-in with the race at his mercy in 1956.

Potters Corner won his trainer Christian Williams a virtual fortune yesterday during a computer simulation of the Grand National watched by almost five million viewers.

Our book critic tests your knowledge of the best boosk released in 2019, with this fun, challenging literary quiz

Did you know that in 2019 a Belgian man broke the record for sitting on the toilet for the longest time - 116 hours?

There have been books, articles, films and plays galore about Philby, Maclean, Burgess and Blunt, but nobody seems to know or care about the 'Fifth Man', John Cairncross

House Of Glass flows with the amazing clarity and delicacy of a fine novel. By the end, I was completely wrapped up in the sharply contrasting characters of the Glass family

Here We Are opens in a theatre in Brighton, 1959. A snazzy tap-dancing showbiz personality called Jack Robinson is waiting in the wings. The world of entertainment is on the cusp of change

For the most part, Kate Fall regards her role as a memoirist as an extension of her job as gatekeeper: to present the polished face of the Cameron administration to the world

Now aged 93 ('well past my sell-by date'), Jan Morris has taken to keeping a diary, or something like a diary, but more public, as it is clearly written for publication

What a bizarre book this is: three parts funny to one part stark, staring horror

'Dangerous criminals are being released every single day', an ICE spokesman said. Sanctuary cities like NYC limit cooperation with U.S. immigration authorities.

Bernice A. King, Martin Luther King Jr.'s daughter, delivered speech at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, on MLK Day. Thousands around the country celebrate his legacy.

Boris Johnson's plan to scrap a minimum earnings threshold for migrants who want to move to the UK after Brexit has sparked a backlash among Tory MPs.

Shahab Dehghani, 24, an Iranian economics student at Northeastern University, was denied entry to the US and ordered to immediately fly back to his native country.

The Prime Minister will vow to 'mobilise the full breadth of our new freedoms' on Brexit night - as his Bill paving the way for Britain to leave the EU was finally passed by Parliament yesterday.

The Home Secretary apparently set out on Tuesday that there will be no so-called 'carve outs' under Boris Johnson's Australian-style points-based immigration system.

Downing Street has rejected a big business demand to allow low-skilled migration from the EU to continue after Brexit, telling companies to focus on training UK workers instead.

The former acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement director blasted Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for her repeated 'idiotic' comments that the agency should be abolished.

Priti Patel today launched a savage attack on big British business as she said companies had become 'far too reliant on low skilled' and 'cheap' workers from the EU.

Boris Johnson lashed out after the SNP leader said immigration from the EU must continue north of the border because the economy needs workers.