What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
The cakes were on Asda when they turned up at a Middleton Elderly Aid lunch club with a cheque for £8,000 this morning (24 July 2015). Asda have been celebrating the company’s 50th birthday by awarding grants from the Asda Foundation. 72 grants, worth over £500,000, have been awarded and
What’s going on with the Labour Party? Labour MPs fail to oppose the Tories’ vicious benefit cuts, meanwhile the rank and file members seem to be increasing backing the ‘loony left winger’ Jeremy Corbyn in the leadership election. It seems to me that this shows the different approaches to politics
The weather is warm, the bees are buzzing and the cherries are ripening. Summer has well and truly arrived at Skelton Grange! Come join us this Friday (24 July 2015) between 10am–3pm for our Summer Festival; a day of fun, activities and crafts. Activities include: Giant Bubbles Wildflower seed collecting:
Run Leeds is an exciting project, which aims to support the running needs of all joggers and runners alike. We will be the only city-focused running website based in Yorkshire. Running is the simplest form of recreation – all you need is a pair of trainers and basic sportswear. And,
[slideshow_deploy id=’38254′] The play was Beryl, the life story of Beryl Burton, Champion Women’s Cyclist. The play was by my favourite actress Maxine Peake. All four actors on stage play different people at times, for instance Rebecca Ryan as a young Beryl and Samantha Power as the grown up Beryl.
A cake cutting ceremony was held to celebrate the completion of new Leeds Federated homes in Arthington Place, Hunslet. Leeds Fed customers who live in the new properties along with local councillors, Leeds City Council officers, the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA), companies involved in the design and building work,
The Post Office on Old Lane in Beeston is to be revamped this summer, but will close for 11 days whilst the work is carried out. The branch is one of 8,000 across the country to be converted into what the Post Office call a ‘Main style branch’. The interior
Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook and Twitter. We start this week in Cottingley with the nicely alliterating children’s Craft Club at Cottingley Community Centre, which seems to have been a great success on Monday judging from the photos.
Adam Blackburn from Middleton is making the step up from Cross Flatts Parkrun to the 4x100m sprint relay in the Olympic Stadium at this weekend’s (24-26 July 2015) third Anniversary Games. The Games take place in London at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. As well as Adam, over three days
This week over 6 days people are walking 120 miles to celebrate 120 years of Rugby League, visiting each of the founder clubs that voted to join the Northern Union back in 1895. Today’s (21 July 2015) morning leg was from Hunslet’s South Leeds Stadium to the ground of Leeds