Leeds

Here are some stats about Leeds that you might find interesting

• Leeds city region has a population of 3 million; a business base of 103,000 companies and an economy worth £52 billion per year.
• Leeds is the UK's largest centre for financial and business services outside London. A total of 116,500 people work in this sector.
• There are over 70,000 students in Leeds. 10% of all UK graduates were educated in Leeds. The Independent called Leeds the 'Best University Destination'.
• £6 billion is currently being invested in the city through major development projects including Trinity Leeds, the state of the art Leeds Arena and Eastgate Quarters.
• Leeds employs more people in business and financial services than any city outside London. ONS Annual Business Inquiry 2009.
• The business school at the University of Leeds is ranked 57th in the world by the Financial Times' MBA rankings 2009.
• Leeds sits on the East Coast mainline, the train line that runs from London to Edinburgh with Leeds to London travel times from just 2hrs 6mins.
• Cushman and Wakefield's European Cities Monitor 2010 named Leeds the UK's best ranked city for cost of staff.
• Described in the Lonely Planet guide to Britain as the 'Knightsbridge of the North', Leeds has consistently been ranked as one of the UK's top five retail destinations.
• Every day over 100,000 people from the surrounding city region commute to work in Leeds.
• Leeds City Station is one of the busiest in the country outside central London, with over 900 trains and 101,000 passengers passing through the station every day.
• The Leeds Arena is due to open in 2013. The venue, which is estimated to bring in an additional one million visitors to the city, will be a unique 'super theatre' with a fan shape design which guarantees every seat in the house perfect sight-lines of the centre stage.
• Here are some Links you might find useful
• Locate in Leeds
• Leeds Live it Love it
• Leeds Transport & UK Transport
• Events in Leeds
• Essenial guide to bars, pubs, clubs, hotels and restaurants in Leeds
• Yorkshire Forward
• Business Link Yorkshire