What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Members of the SPLASH campaign, who are lobbying to have South Leeds Sports Centre reopened, met last night at Hillside to plot their latest protest. Members agreed to hold the event at noon on Bonfire Night – November 5 – with a ‘V For Vendetta’ theme. This morning Splash issued the
Members of The Bridge group for people with learning disabilities has enjoyed a tour around Holbeck and Holbeck Urban Village. Group members have taken photographs for the Looking Good Holbeck and Beeston Project, which showcases positive photography of the Holbeck and Beeston areas from the eyes of local residents. Taking
Police are appealing for witnesses after a serious road traffic collision this morning in south Leeds. The incident happened at 8.02am on Meadow Lane at its junction with Victoria Road. A DAF Box van was travelling south along Meadow Lane going towards Dewsbury Road when it was in collision with a
Here’s a roundup of local community policing issues reported by the City and Holbeck Neighbourhood Policing teams. For more on the work and priorities of the NPTs in your community, click on the links below. Beeston The latest White Rose Residents’ Association meeting was held at the Two Willows Children’s Centre.
South Leeds Life readers have an exciting opportunity to help name some of the rooms at a major new facility opening later this month. Tenants Hall Enterprise Centre is a £1.6 million facility in the heart of Middleton which offers an exciting opportunity for new and existing businesses in the
[slideshow]Hunslet Cemetery’s had a lot of adverse publicity due to problems with vandalism and anti-social behavior just recently. I paid it a visit for – shamefully – the first time this week. I found it an incredibly beautiful and peaceful place, steeped in character and history – a real hidden
I was walking at the bottom of Belle Isle Road and took a snap of what is obviously an old advert for something called ‘bile beans’. It’s great to see part of the area’s history still on show for everyone to see even today. Being aged under 40, I’ve no
Middleton councillor Geoff Driver has called on local residents to have their say on a controversial planning application to demolish the landmark Middleton Arms pub and replace it with a new Aldi supermarket. As we reported earlier this week, Leeds City Council planners initially recommended that the application be turned down,
South Leeds Life has received the following email from Beeston resident Sally Cieslik, one of the organisers behind the SPLASH campaign to get South Leeds Sports Centre in Beeston reopened: “Just a reminder that we have a meeting next Monday, 17 October, 7pm at Hillside to finalise plans for the
Hunslet Club Boxer Terry Broadbent brought some South Leeds sporting talent to the TV screens when he reached the quarter finals of Prize Fighter live on Sky Sports on Weds October 12th in front of a tv audience of hundreds of thousands, he put up a great fight but was