Leeds

Leeds is a city in West Yorkshire, England. Leeds has one of the most diverse economies of all the UK's main employment centres and has seen the fastest rate of private-sector jobs growth of any UK city. It also has the highest ratio of private to public sector jobs of all the UK's Core Cities, with 77% of its workforce working in the private sector. Today, Leeds has become the largest legal and financial centre, outside London with the financial and insurance services industry worth £13 billion to the city's economy. Public transport, rail and road communications networks in the region are focused on Leeds, and the second phase of High Speed 2 will connect it to London via East Midlands Hub and Sheffield Meadowhall. Leeds currently has the third busiest railway station and the tenth busiest airport outside London.

Leeds was the home of Paul Priestly before he moved to Walford in 1989, He had a brief relationship with Diane Butcher and after she runs away from home in January 1990 and Paul had gone back up to Leeds the residents believed that Diane had followed Paul up there, however this turned out not to be true.

In 1999, Michael and Susan Rose planned to start a new life in Leeds following Michael being offered a better job. Susan was over the moon to begin a new life away from London, however, Michael wasn't so keen following his affair with Lisa Shaw. The pair did, however, end up leaving for Leeds. Michael infrequently visited the Square following the murder charge of Saskia Duncan on his son Matthew. The same situation happened with Rachel Kominski in 1993, when she was offered a job in Leeds and Oliver Cousins in 2006.