Cllr Alison Lowe, who helped with the transport arrangements to get the cyclists to their start point at St Bees Head, was delighted to have been involved in the challenge and paid tribute to everyone involved in the event.

THEIR hands helped build a city, now a new exhibition pays tribute to Leeds's industrial heroines and their nimble fingers.

The photos at Armley Mills Industrial Museum celebrate Leeds's textile heritage and features as its highlight some powerful images of the hands of many of the workers who sewed their way into history.

The exhibition, entitled Wool, is the work of Armley photographer Casey Orr, who used women from Armley Helping Hands, a charity for the elderly, as her subjects.

 Website for older people launched in Armley

A training session for older people in Armley and Wortley was held at the Park Lane College Leeds St Bartholomew’s Centre this week, to help launch a new specialist website for older people.

The Infostore (www.olderpeopleleeds.info) has been developed by Leeds City Council, working in partnership with Leeds Older People’s Forum and Leeds Primary Care Trust. The site is for older people themselves, their relatives and carers, and for professionals. It contains details of hundreds of organisations and services and access to a huge range of leaflets, guides and other useful documents. Armley Helping Hands, and many of its members, have been closely involved in the development process.