What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
With more wintry weather forecast for this weekend, we thought it was timely to reproduce this advice from the Highways Agency. Carry an emergency kit Gather together the following items and pack in your vehicle at the start of the winter season, you never know when you might need them!
This week saw south Leeds charity St Luke’s Cares open their fifth charity store, in the heart of Beeston Hill on the busy Dewsbury Road – as part of a major push to become financially secure, and to safeguard their much-valued work in the local community. The new store is
South Leeds Life received the following comment from Steven Ballance: “Aire Valley Homes, although supposedly the ‘landlords’ of some housing in Middleton, are now asking residents who need repairs doing to contact the contractors themselves, instead of contacting them. “This came to light after I tried to report a blocked
Although this article is about me being diagnosed with dementia, there is a crossover with me being also at an earlier stage been diagnosed with depression. I will explain later. I was first diagnosed with depression in the year 2000, millennium year. I still have it today 15 years on.
A new exhibition opens this week at Beeston’s groundbreaking BasementArtsProject – the gallery in the basement of Bruce and Debs Davies’ terraced house. Saturation Point is a collection of works put together by London based curators Patrick Morrissey & Hanz Hancock that looks at work by reductive, geometric and systems
West Yorkshire Police – Leeds Inner South Parents – please don’t tell your children that we will take them away/put them in jail when you see us. We want them to be able to come to us when they need us, not run away from us.
Police investigating three armed robberies in Bradford and Leeds have appealed for information. At about 7pm on Monday (12 January 2015), a man entered a house in Wooler Avenue, Beeston, and made demands for gold jewellery from one of the occupants. The man, who was believed to be carrying a
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 with Beeston blogger Mike Wallis who has done a lovely ‘daft little watercolour’. Mars is so bracing is in the style of the famous Skegness poster. You’ll
We would love to invite the people of Holbeck to join us at the Holbeck Gala annual general meeting (AGM) on Tuesday 20 January at Ingram Garden Community Room at 7:15pm. The gala is a great event which runs each summer on the moor in Holbeck. It’s always a brilliant
Beeston residents are helping to organise a convoy of much-needed clothing and supplies from Leeds to refugees in Iraq later this month, and are urgently appealing for help and donations. Violence in Syria and Iraq over the past 2+ years has led to millions of people being forced to flee