What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Good morning, South Leeds. Here’s your weekly round-up of what’s been making south Leeds tick on other news sites and blogs. The YEP reports on the queen of the Cardinal estate in Beeston, Yvonne Crowther, and her bid to turn a hair salon on the estate into a community cafe
Sporting history was made in South Leeds this week as all three Hunslet Rugby Teams have been drawn to play in the 3rd round of the Rugby League Carnegie Challenge Cup. Hunslet Old Boys have been drawn a game against Featherstone Rovers, whilst Hunslet Hawks will face the Royal Navy and the Hunslet
“We have old people, a disabled girl in a wheelchair and young children living in this street. It is very hard to walk on the footpath as dogs have always fouled in front of every house. No-one on our street has a dog. We need help to sort this problem.
Maria Spadafora, the community engagement officer at South Asian Arts-uk, has sent us this guest post about an exciting new initiative encouraging yougsters from across the city – including south Leeds – to go to the theatre… Calling all young people aged 13-19! Not had many opportunities to go to
Hope & Social will be headlining this year’s Beeston Festival 2012 at Cross Flatts Park. Hope & Social hail from Leeds and are destined for big things fresh from playing at Glastonbury 2011. Check out this article on them. The popular community festival will be held on Saturday, June 9th. Organisers are also
An accident involving four cars blocked Old Lane in Beeston for several hours on Friday morning. Police told South Leeds Life that there had been no injuries but the cars had blocked the busy roadway for some of the morning. One local resident, who disn’t see the accident, said it happened at about
Check out this post from the ever-reliable Leeds Citizen, the Zorro of the Leeds blogging community…
Leeds City Council’s learning disability community support service was ‘highly commended’ at a ceremony in Manchester last week. The service was recognised in the ‘Most effective new approach to service delivery’ category, at Skill for Care’s ninth accolades ceremony. The accolades are recognition of an individual or organisation’s success in
South Leeds blogger Ewan Mitchell has been delighting us all with his passionate Tonight’s Menu blog about home cooking, food and useful recipes he’s tried out. And Ewan’s just celebrated National Pie Week with a post detailing his Leeds Pork Pie Challenge where he chose what he thought was the
The BasementArtsProject is run by Bruce and Debs Davies from the basement of their terrace house in Beeston and is probably the city’s smallest arts space. Here, Bruce provides an update on the latest developments with the project… Firstly I would like to thank, on behalf of BasementArtsProject and all of