Day: 13 November 2015

News from the Holbeck Neighbourhood Forum

The Holbeck Neighbourhood Forum took place at ‘The Holbeck’ (formley The Holbeck Working Men’s Club) on Saturday 7 November 2015. The special general meeting was chaired by Dennis Kitchen and was greeted with some new faces of the residents in Holbeck along with volunteers, local police and ward councillors. After

Local frustration at looming city land plan

Community leaders in south Leeds have voiced their frustration at the botched local consultation on the City Council’s Site Allocations Plan, and are calling on residents to urgently look at the plan and comment on it before the looming deadline of Monday 16th November (2015). The Leeds-wide plan has been

South of the River – Send Them Kids To War

Wednesday was Remembrance Day, it’s a day full of contradictions that I always find difficult. The first question is who are we remembering? It varies from ‘those brave young men that made the ultimate sacrifice to defend democracy’ through to ‘all victims of all wars’. The second definition I can