What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Girls in south Leeds are being given the chance to try out football at special free taster sessions being run this week and next at Cockburn School. Check out the poster below for more details on the events, which are being run by The Cupboard youth project, Health For All and Leeds
Dog owners are invited to bring their pet along to Cross Flatts Park to take advantage of a special free microchipping offer. Microchipping is recognised as the most effective and secure way of permanently identifying a lost pet. A unique identification number is registered to the animal and the owner’s details
A group of South Leeds residents have become local history reporters and investigated the rich past of their community. The hard work of Members of the Middleton Life project will be celebrated at a special event at Tenants Hall Enterprise Centre on Thursday, July 12 when exhibition panels they’ve helped
Lovely post from Eve Tidswell from the Friends of Holbeck Cemetery on an American visitor who traced her great-grandmother to the south Leeds cemetery.
Police have appealed for help in tracing the relatives of a Holbeck man who has died. John Richard Newsome, 53, of Domestic Street, Leeds was found dead at his home on Monday 25th June. His death is not being treated as suspicious. Any family member of anyone who may know the whereabouts
It was smiles all round today in the Hunslet Club Gym when a cheque for £746.40 to St Gemma’s Hospice, their half of the proceeds from the clubs’ Annual Sponsored Fitness Challenge. Darren Rhodes from the Hunslet Club and Nicki Brooksbank from St Gemma’s Hospice, cheque into the Gym “Well done to everyone who took
The Hunslet Club is launching Circuit Training Sessions for adults on Monday Nights, adding to a packed out line up of adult fitness activities at the club which includes Boxfit on Tuesdays and Thursdays, Zumba on Thursdays, BOKWA on Tuesdays, Legs, Bums & Tums on Wednesdays as well as a low
Leeds today heard the words from it never thought it would: “Go ahead with your plans for a new trolleybus”. The government has said it will give £173.5 million funding for a trolleybus scheme – and the big news for south Leeds is that one of the routes is due to cut
Children’s heart surgery in Leeds will be axed – despite a 600,000-strong petition supporting the facilities at Leeds General Infirmary. Hospitals in Leicester, Leeds and the Royal Brompton in London are to stop performing heart surgery on children, it was announced yesterday. There are currently 10 units in England but
Here’s what’s making south Leeds tick this week on other blogs and websites: Cottingley TRAC are holding their next meeting tonight at Cottingley Primary School, starting at 7pm. Here’s what they’ve posted on their Facebook page: “We have someone coming to talk about the wheelie bin scheme and you should be