What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Holbeck based feel-good lifestyle brand, Joe Browns, today announces the triumphant reach of its one million customer account mark. Since the quirky catalogue and online clothing company was founded with just a handful of staff in 1998, it has gone on to secure over 200 wholesale accounts worldwide and obtained
Changes to bus routes and timetables affecting routes in South Leeds come into operation on Sunday 26 April 2015. The 64 and 74 services will take a different route through the city centre to improve journey times. Instead of using Eastgate and Vicar Lane, both services will York Street, New
Upcoming events at The Holbeck (formerly Holbeck Working Mens Club). Everyone welcome! Thursday 23 April – Psychic Medium Night. An Audience with Gareth Lewis. As part of his Walking with Spirits Tour – spend an evening with Gareth as he shows his amazing ability to contact the spirit world. Tickets
The dream of a trip to Wembley Stadium was never a realistic one for the Hunslet Hawks to have, but Sunday’s Ladbrokes Challenge Cup 5th Round tie against the Dewsbury Rams offered the winners the potential to land a plum tie against one of the Super League elite. That opportunity was
Leeds City Council has launched an innovative new campaign this week to encourage people who smoke to ‘Take 7 Steps Out’ of their home to protect children from the dangers of secondhand smoke. StepaRoo, the campaign’s kangaroo mascot, was in the city this week to take children across seven musical
Danny Cassidy Few weeks ago, I had two cardiac arrests and each time my heart stopped for around 90 seconds (any more than 3 minutes means brain damage while more than 4 minutes means death) luckily the crash team were available and did CPR. Then at the grand old age of 29
I see the Right To Buy is back in the news this week, with a plan to extend it to housing association homes. Regular readers of this column will not be surprised to learn that I don’t think this is a very good idea. Perhaps it’s worth re-capping a brief
Detectives investigating the attempted murder and rape of a woman in Leeds are conducting a large-scale DNA swabbing operation as part of their hunt for the attacker. The victim, an 18-year-old woman, was attacked by the man as she waited at a bus stop in Beeston Road, near to the
Make sure you get your name on the electoral register by Monday April 20 to ensure you’re able to vote in the local and general elections on May 7. This year it is particularly important to check you are eligible since a new, national system of individual electoral registration (IER)
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 at Cottingley Community Centre where they’ve launched a new Facebook page. It’s the place to go if you want to know about things like the new Saturday