What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
As more people report their south Leeds dog fouling problems in our Scoop It Up campaign, today we’re focussing on our interactive dog fouling map, which has so far had more than 500 views in just over a week. The map, which you can see below, allows readers to chart
Passing through Holbeck recently we noticed another of the area’s traditional boozers up for sale – this time the Bulls Head. The Lord Nelson, Spotted Cow and Kings Arms have all closed in recent years – let’s hope a buyer can be found for the Bulls Head.
Our Scoop It Up campaign, which is targeting dog fouling in South Leeds, is already having an impact. Remember we mentioned last week about problems with dog fouling on streets leading to the parks where they’re due to be walked? One reader has already reported problems anonymously to Leeds City Council
The opening of the new ‘Sphinx Square’ garden area is due to be held on Saturday 5th of May from 2-5 with Hilary Benn and a local councillor opening the area to the rear of the shops. The area is where the old Sphynx pub – AKA Cottingley Arms – used to be until
Belle Isle’s own Nell McAndrew has today posted a great time of two hours and 54 minutes at today’s London Marathon. The former Lara Croft model, 38, posted the fabulous time – her personal best – at the 2012 event. She was raising money for Cancer Research. Here’s a link to Nell’s Justgiving
Here’s a first for the Hunslet Club, recently a film crew descended on our Boxing Gym to film parts of a music video by Toby Gale. The scenes are set in the 1980’s and the producers, South Leeds based production company Crown & Owls, have done a fantastic job of back-dating
[slideshow]Members of the Middleton Life history project enjoyed a trip to the world’s oldest continuously working commercial railway on Saturday. Unlike our trip to Middleton Park on Wednesday, the weather stayed mostly dry at Middleton Railway. We were treated to a talk on the history of the railway by one
The Middleton Arms is now nothing but rubble. The 87-year-old pub has been a real landmark in the area, but bulldozers completed the job on Saturday. The site will now be cleared before work starts on building a new Aldi store. There are some more photos and reaction on the Middleton
[googlemaps http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=208104848291920538910.0004a635bd22fe31716e3&ie=UTF8&t=m&source=embed&ll=53.750284,-1.54654&spn=0.015531,0.000343&output=embed&w=425&h=350] Our map of local community groups and organisations in Soiuth Leeds is proving very popular. Since we launched it a few months ago, dozens of local groups have added their details to the map, which has been viewed more than 1,500 times so far. The latest group to
The new Leeds Online blog – if you haven’t seen it yet check it out, it’s ace! – has run a post about a Leeds Question Time debate on April 30 which will give Leeds residents the opportunity to debate the question: Does Leeds need an elected mayor? There’s been a