A regular West Yorkshire commuter interrupted her coffee in the Sunny Bank Mills cafe to tell Emma Barnett and Radio 5 Live listeners one of her top items on an election agenda.

The show is broadcasting from the former textile mill in Farsley now home to dozens of businesses.

And the topic was transport or lack of it sometimes.

Lisa told Emma : "I travel between Pudsey and Wakefield where I work, it's not the easiest to get there.

"I arrive at the station before 07:00 to miss the rush but often my train is cancelled or the times are changed.

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"It's a two-train journey and I arrive about 07:45 on a good day but it is often more like 08:30. Many times I don't get a seat and it was awful when I was pregnant.

"I think a lot of people just put up with it, you have to get to work. We complain every other day standing there together on the platform.

"Better local links would help, I think we are too far north to get involved in these things."

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We've been hearing stories of people stockpiling food and medicines, with businesses filling their warehouses with stock in case of a no-deal Brexit.

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One Leeds company has been stockpiling kitchens since mid-September as the UK looked to leave the EU on 31 October, in case import costs increased.

The decision was made by Arlington Interiors to take in extra stock, as the risk was too high should the UK leave the EU without a deal, as managing director Nick Tindall told BBC Radio 5 Live:

"We took delivery last week of rather a lot of kitchens from Europe that we've already sold to customers, with some being installed after Christmas.

"We've run out of space, and it also affects cash flow. Our warehouse is full to the rafters."

He's joining many business in the city who are wanting clarity over Brexit - when will the UK leave the EU? And how much time will businesses like Nick's get to prepare?

James Vincent
Political Editor BBC Look North

Although the electoral pact between the Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru and the Green Party not to stand against each other is not happening in Leeds, it is happening in neighbouring areas.

So here's an update from the soaking streets of Leeds:

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BBC 5 Live

Pudsey is a key marginal seat.

In 2017 there were only 331 votes in it, so you can imagine how much interest there'll be in what people who live here think and what they're going to do with their vote.

We want to figure out what matters to them so we're at Sunny Bank Mills in Farsley, one of those imposing buildings which speaks to the greatness, grandeur and enterprise of Victorian Britain.

The mill has stopped making cotton but it hasn't stopped making other things - there are 75 businesses inside this former mill and the owners all want politicians to deliver them something in this general election.

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I've spoken to a nurse in the cafe here who told me she wants to know what parties can offer to improve NHS services and what Brexit will mean to her colleagues from the EU.

While a local businessman told me the most important thing to him was politicians being honest about the impact of Brexit.

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And Andrew Haldenby, director of Leeds-based recruitment firm iSource Group says whatever happens, the country needs to "move forward".

"I think the stagnation that we've all experienced for the last three years and beyond is really the thing that we need to move on from," he said.

"We need confidence that's going to allow us to make decisions to plan and grow - trust and confidence has been really eroded."

Transport is also a priority for him - high speed rail line HS3, which would link cities in the North, is needed, he says, as "there's a sense of inequality and I think we need to feel like that is changing".

Labour's suggestion that part of the Treasury be moved to the north of England has been welcomed in Leeds.

Amy De-Balsi, who runs a co-working space in the city, believes it could be the catalyst for boosting transport links in the north of England.

She said: "Transport in the north is a huge issue, we aren't seeing the same levels of investment as the south and possibly, by moving the Treasury up here, them experiencing those problems themselves might actually stimulate some more investment."

When asked what the most important issues were at the general election, Ms De-Balsi said the Brexit debate had overtaken domestic issues but money was needed to help people create businesses.

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Kevin Larkin
Political reporter, BBC Radio Leeds

The Lib Dems, Greens and Plaid Cymru have agreed a pact for the election but the parties tell me it won’t be happening in Leeds.

Welsh nationalists Plaid Cymru obviously aren’t standing here as it’s an English seat so any deals would be between the Greens and Lib Dems.

But both parties are fishing in similar waters in the city with the Lib Dems targeting student voters in Leeds North West with a pro-Remain pro-environment attitude.

That’s a similar message to the one from the Greens and Labour here and with all three parties believing they can do well, none was willing to stand aside.

Away from Leeds North West, the city’s other closely fought battles are in the Labour-Conservative marginals such as Pudsey and Morley & Outwood.

Labour ruling out joining the Progressive Alliance means the effect of these pacts will have to be judged in other parts of the country.

The Yorkshire Evening Post has issued a rallying cry to politicians warning them to 'Ignore Leeds at your peril' and urging the next government to transform the lives of people living in the north of England.

A number of regional titles have got together to put out a manifesto for the North , external"to turbocharge the economy, create jobs and set our region on the path to a prosperous new future".

Here's what the front page of the Leeds paper looks like today:

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Wake up to Money

I'm at the Corn Exchange in the middle of Leeds, talking about the general election, finding out what businesses want.

This a glorious domed building, 150 years old, Grade I listed and it used to be a real thriving hub of trade for barley, wheat and corn.

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Now there's independent retailers from fashion to food and, of course, coffee.

I've been speaking to staff at Ground Up Coffee about the issues that jump out for them.

One of them told me it was all about the environment.

He said: "I'd like to see things put in place to improve the sustainability of day-to-day life as well as laws being in place to improve how environmentally friendly big businesses and companies are."

Labour have pledged to set up a Treasury unit in the north of England to make spending decisions away from Whitehall.

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If Labour win the election, they promise to deliver an "irreversible shift" of power and investment to working people outside the south-east of England.

John McDonnell will pledge £150bn for schools, hospitals and housing on top of existing spending plans to be paid for through borrowing.

The shadow chancellor says he will move Treasury staff out of London to ensure the regions get a fair share of it.

In his first major speech of the election campaign, Mr McDonnell will promise "investment on a scale never seen before in this country and certainly never seen before in the north and outside of London and the south east".

Speaking in Liverpool, the city of his birth, Mr McDonnell will say: "Power is coming home, back to the people.

"We can only deliver the real change we need by putting power into the hands of communities, of the people who know their local area best."

Chancellor Sajid Javid said Labour's plans were "fantasy economics".

Kevin Larkin
Political reporter, BBC Radio Leeds

What do you think of when you think of Leeds? Football? Shopping? One unusual bit of trivia is that soda water was invented here in 1767 - but will the election here be just as full of fizz?

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Leeds was very close to being a 50:50 city in the EU referendum, with Remain edging it by just 0.3%.

The city has seen a lot of change in recent years to become a hub for the professional services, in particular the financial and media sectors.

In the past few months, Leeds has won the battle to host a new base for Channel 4, while this week 500 new customer services jobs were announced by Sky.

Transport is a key issue in the city, with commuters coming into work from around Yorkshire.

To read more about the issues facing Leeds click here.

Good morning, the BBC will be in Leeds today on the first step of our election road-trip looking at what people want from the election and from politicians.

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We'll be talking to local residents and business about everything from Brexit to the NHS as the UK prepares to go to the polls next month.

BBC Breakfast and BBC Radio 5 Live will be coming live from the city throughout the course of the day and if you have a question you can get in touch by emailing yourquestions@bbc.co.uk or using #BBCyourquestions.