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TWO thousands trees have been planted at Yeadon Tarn as the area is put at the forefront of a scheme to help fight climate change. The site is one of the first areas to be chosen in a Leeds Council project to double the number of trees in the city. The council has been looking at land it owns to identify sites for planting and the first area locally is Yeadon Tarn. Other sites in Otley and Yeadon will be planted as part of the ten year programme. Yeadon Councillors Sandy Lay, Colin Campbell and Ryk Downes have welcomed the planting at the tarn.
POLICE are clamping down on dangerously parked vehicles on Otley Chevin after complaints from local people. A total of 18 tickets were given out last weekend by officers from the local neighbourhood policing team - and drivers are being warned that daily enforcement will continue. In a facebook post on Monday West Yorkshire Police North West said: “Over this past weekend, officers from your local NPT once again attended Otley Chevin at the request of concerned residents, in relation to dangerously parked vehicles. “As you can see from the below photographs, traffic is being forced into the oncoming lane by dangerous parking. On one of the photos below, this has resulted in the car having a damaged wing mirror.
They also show military personnel who were based at the adjacent airport. The Avro factory produced Lancaster bombers which were used in the legendary “Dambuster” raids. The 70th anniversary of the raids was marked in May 2013, and the importance of the Yeadon factory was highlighted in a parliamentary motion put forward by the then Leeds North West MP Greg Mulholland. The factory, which was built in 1939 alongside what is now Leeds Bradford Airport, covered a million and a half square feet, and was the largest single factory unit in Europe at the time. Called a ‘shadow factory,’ the Avro unit contributed to the aircraft production necessary for the war effort. In order to avoid airstrikes, the roof of the factory was camouflaged with fields, hedgerows, dummy buildings, and even a duck pond. The camouflaging tactics were successful, as the factory was never detected by enemy bombers throughout the war.