LEEDS City Council will axe 450 jobs.
In a shock move, one of the UK’s biggest local authorities said it was cutting hundreds of jobs.
Council leaders blamed “lower government grants and a drop in its income” for the decision.
A spokesman for Leeds City Council said about 650 would go over the next year, but said it was planning to create 200 new posts, giving a net loss of about 450.
A spokesman said the council did not anticipate there would be any compulsory job losses and none of the posts affected would be school-based staff.
Kirklees Council warned last week that services may have to be cut because of financial constraints and other councils, including Nottingham, have predicted big job losses.
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