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On 25 April 2022 a blue plaque commemorating Oluwale was unveiled on Leeds Bridge by Leeds Civic Trust and the David Oluwale Memorial Association. [4] The same evening the plaque was stolen from the bridge; West Yorkshire Police began an investigation, which treated the theft as a hate crime.
The Yorkshire Evening Post is a daily evening publication (delivered to newsagents every morning) published by Yorkshire Post Newspapers in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. The paper provides a regional slant on the day's news, and traditionally provides close reporting on Leeds United and Leeds Rhinos as well as the Yorkshire County Cricket ...
He died at the Southport hospital two months after the accident. The direct cause of death was a haemorrhage from an ulcer in the windpipe that had formed after an operation following the accident. [13] 24 April 1977: Chris Sanderson: 22 Leeds: Sanderson died after choking on his own vomit after a tackle early on in a game against Salford ...
Beginning her writing career as a typist for the Yorkshire Evening Post aged 15, she became a reporter a year later, and by the age of 18 was the paper’s first woman’s editor.
In 1988 Yorkshire Television picked up the Yorkshire Evening Post story and produced a second critical investigation focusing on the pattern of deaths in Armley, and contradicting the government's reasons for refusing an inquiry. [3] Called Too Close to Home, [14] it was broadcast as part of the First Tuesday documentary series on 6 December 1988.
Marjorie was the President of The Friends of Roundhay Park, a charitable organisation formed in 1994, which is dedicated to the preservation of Roundhay Park in Leeds. [7] [8] She has also acted as a representative for the Yorkshire Evening Post in local competitions and award ceremonies. [9]
Many death notices appeared in the Yorkshire Evening Post, stating cause of death as killed by accident: [4] the only clue to the tragedy that had befallen them. Six years after the end of the war, the public were finally told the facts of the explosion at Barnbow. [citation needed]
In 1934 he quit his job at the Yorkshire Post and became a freelance. Leaving the city behind, he rented a cottage in Clapham, which he renamed Fellside, and continued to work for a number of newspapers, including the Yorkshire Post, Yorkshire Evening Post, Leeds Mercury and Lancashire Evening Post, on a freelance basis. He reckoned if he could ...