What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Well, week two of the Community Reporters Course finds the famous five in Middleton Park on a photographic assignment. There was a hive of activity in the park today, so plenty of opportunities to get a decent shot of our wonderful and often underused park. Perhaps the pictures will encourage
When you’re pregnant you always imagine what your baby will be like, you have this whole future planned out for them. You never really put into that plan anything you don’t see as the perfect life for them. They’ll be smart, go to university, support dad’s football team, enjoy the
Alistair Kaye, priest in charge of Holbeck, Beeston Hill and Hunslet, has been honoured by Bishop John Packer by being made an Honorary Canon of Ripon Cathedral. Alistair (50), who was ordained in 1990, has served in the Armley area of Leeds for fourteen years, ten of those as Vicar
Yesterday was Anzac day, when those of us of antipodean extraction remember the men and women who fought for Britain in the Australia & New Zealand Army Corps … and eat biscuits. My mother was from New South Wales and her dad, my granddad, fought in France in the First
Drop-in sessions for people in south Leeds wanting to find out more about the planned NGT trolleybus network take place on Wednesday 1st and Thursday 2nd May. People can come along to discuss the project with the NGT team between 5:30pm and 7:30pm at St John & St Barnabas Church’s
A petition with more than 250 signatures from local people angry about the planned closure of the Middleton branch of Yorkshire Bank is to be sent to bank chiefs. Yorkshire Bank is proposing to rationalise its services and close its Middleton Park Circus branch on June 20, with local residents
South Leeds Youth Hub could soon be run by a community group after senior councillors gave the go ahead to start looking for local organisations to run it. At yesterday’s meeting of Leeds City Council’s executive board, members agreed that officers could start the Community Asset Transfer process for the
A pioneering new Leeds service designed to avoid unnecessary admission to hospital or residential care and to support people to leave hospital sooner opened its doors to patients this week. The South Leeds Independence Centre is the city’s first intermediate care unit, providing 40 community intermediate care beds. The centre,
Have you ever noticed that in every park you go to in Leeds, Golden Acre, Roundhay Park, Middleton Park, etc – if there is a water feature or lake you find Ducks swimming about, sitting down pruning their feathers, waddling along leaving deposits or flying off over the water as
Beeston In Bloom will be holding their annual plant sale on Saturday at the Lodge Lane planter. This is a great opportunity to stock up on affordable plants for your garden and support a local community group that does so much to brighten up the area. Both flower and vegetable