National and regional media picked up on Joe Holden’s research on Britain as a tornado hotspot (Reporter 499). Dr Holden was interviewed by BBC Look North, BBC Radio Five Live, Leeds and Humberside to explain how this phenomenon is far more common than people imagine. The Guardian, Independent, Scotsman, Yorkshire Post and Yorkshire Evening Post also covered the story.

Leeds alumnus Jack Straw has signed the UK up to the EU constitution and Professor Juliet Lodge joined BBC Radio Leeds drive time show before the signing. She said: “The crucial issues regarding qualified majority voting, measures to combat international crime and terrorism and to promote co-operation on security have largely been resolved.”

Innovation funding awarded to Leeds this month was covered by the Yorkshire Post and Yorkshire Evening Post. The University will be ‘at the centre of a multi-million pound project to create jobs across Yorkshire as well as helping to regenerate one of the city’s most deprived areas’, reported the YEP. The faculty of medicine and health sciences and Leeds University Business School will be providing leading-edge management techniques for healthcare workers and other projects including a job guarantee scheme in Harehills.

Dr Richard Howells from the institute of communications studies was a live studio guest on BBC Radio 4’s The Message to argue the case for ‘media studies’.

Murray Perahia's sell-out recital to mark the opening of the re-furbished Clothworkers’ Centenary Concert Hall ‘wowed’ his audience at the University, according to the Yorkshire Evening Post. The Yorkshire Post covered the concert and donation of a new Steinway grand piano by Majorie and Arnold Ziff.

Professor of social policy Fiona Williams ‘will argue that politicians need to address the fact that the prevalence of cohabitation, divorce, single and step-parenthood and same-sex relationships has not led to a loss of commitment,’ reported the Observer before last month's National Family and Parenting Institute conference. Professor Williams’ speech on parents was featured in the Times: “Staying apart for the sake of the children may be part of a new etiquette for divorce.”

Child mental health expert David Cottrell explained in the Observer why prescriptions of anti-depressants for young people have increased in the last ten years: “My impression is that there are a lot more exams in the system. These days the system is more public and there is a pressure to perform that there didn't used to be.”

Pro-Vice-Chancellor Professor Alan Pearman's trip to the University's India office to celebrate Leeds’ centenary was featured in the Times of India and the Hindustan Times.

Sociologist Teela Sanders joined Laurie Taylor’s BBC Radio 4 programme Thinking Allowed to discuss her research on Britain's indoor prostitution markets.