An even more reluctant run this morning. Just 2.5 miles round the ring road, past all those new apartment blocks and ‘prestige office developments’. It’s hard to pick up a newspaper these days without someone droning on about how Leeds has become a kind of provincial Knightsbridge. It was time to take a closer look at Leeds life, so this evening I treated myself to a walk through Hunslet, a suburb close to the centre, but one that hasn’t yet been informed of Leeds’s new prosperity.… READ MORE.... …
Day: 6 July 2004
I was walking along Westgate in Wakefield, a few feet behind two nervous looking guys in their twenties. They kept peering round, but said nothing. Then without warning, they began sprinting. One of them vanished into a shopping centre to the left, while the other dashed into the road without looking, threading his way through the screeching traffic. A moment later I was surrounded by about eight young guys.… READ MORE.... …