What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Funding from the CEMEX Community Fund has been giving the enthusiastic volunteers at Skelton Grange Environment Centre a chance to travel back in time and learn woodland management skills, including the ancient art of hedge laying… with some real “cutting ‘edge” tools. Every Friday in February and March, The Conservation
Middleton Park Ladies 1 – 5 Wetherby Athletic Reserves West Riding County Women’s Football League – Division Two Third placed Wetherby Athletic beat Middleton Park 5-1 away from home in a scrappy game played in awful conditions. The torrential rain and wind meant that both teams struggled to get the
130+ people from all walks of life across south Leeds last week gathered for the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of local charity Health for All, and to hear about their wide-ranging work over the past year. The charity – now in its 24th year – started life being run out
Hunslet’s season finally kicked off with a win against the Dewsbury Rams at the South Leeds Stadium, in a game largely fragmented by the referee. The game started as the heavens opened over South Leeds stadium, both teams struggling to settle in the early stages – the sudden downpour making
Hunslet Hawks’ season finally kicked off with a win against the Dewsbury Rams at the South Leeds Stadium this afternoon (1 March 2015). In a game largely fragmented by the referee, Simon Brown kicked four penalties and one conversion with tries either side of the break from George Flanagan and
A taste of 1940s glamour is coming to Leeds as the latest production by Leeds Gilbert and Sullivan Society brings the sparkling world of post-war film making to The Carriageworks Theatre, with its two main stars from Middleton. Patience was originally written about two rival poets to lampoon Oscar Wilde
A group of intrepid fundraisers has presented a cheque for £700 to support care at the Sue Ryder Wheatfields Hospice in Leeds. Seven of the fundraisers are staff at Sunnyview House care home who were sponsored on the Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge in July. Each attempted to complete the 24.5
A few people have mentioned recently that they’ve seen me on the telly or heard me on the radio. There’s been a lot of ribbing. “Oh you won’t be wanting to talk to likes of us anymore”, “you’ll be on Newsnight next“ and one friend even quoted Father Jack “What’s
Hunslet Hawks have announced that they will play a friendly match against Hunslet Club Parkside at their Station Moor ground on Saturday 7 March 2.30pm kick off. Director of Rugby Darren Williams explained the move which is a first for both clubs “With a squad of 34 players we can
Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook and Twitter. It’s a bit shorter and later this week as we’ve been tied up putting the March newspaper together. We start this week in Middleton Park. ‘Take nothing but photos, leave nothing