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If you want to pay a visit to Pudsey Market then don’t rely on the Leeds Live it Love it website to show you the way, says Pudsey Councillor Josie Jarosz.
Councillor Jarosz was shocked today when she discovered that a map on the site supposed to show how to get to the market actually shows a town called Coffeyville
in Kansas, USA, some 5000 miles away and famous for its interstate fair and rodeo, complete with monster trucks and demolition derby.
The website is run by “Marketing Leeds” which has courted controversy from its launch in 2005 with a £50,000 party and the discovery that the “Leeds Live it Love it” tag line had
been copied from Hong Kong.
Councillor Josie Jarosz (Labour, Pudsey) said: “It is very funny when you first find out but there is a serious side and when you think that the Council gives £400,000 a year to Marketing Leeds, the least
they could do is get the Country right when showing visitors how to get to local attractions. We know that Pudsey is on the
outskirts of Leeds but to be pushed so far out is a little insulting. Hopefully Marketing Leeds will correct the mistake and
take a little bit more care in the future and I will avoid sleepless nights worrying about people wandering around Coffeyville searching in vain for our wonderful market
!”
Councillor James Lewis (Shadow Spokesperson for Resources) said: “This is a
shocking mistake for Marketing Leeds to make. They are paid a lot of money to promote Leeds and yet it turns out they don’t even know where Pudsey is, it
certainly isn’t in the Sunflower State. I accept that mistakes can happen but there appears to be no level of quality control
here, the mistake is apparent as soon as the link is opened. I would have thought it would be normal practice for web pages to be checked before they go live but it would appear
I am wrong.”
Pictured below - Pudsey Labour Councillors Richard Lewis, Josie Jarosz and Mick Coulson in Pudsey Market.
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