What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
I was on BBC Radio Leeds this afternoon (19 February 2016) chatting to Steve White about the news in our corner of West Yorkshire. We discussed the Valentine’s Day run for Skye, the Ice Pak planning application and Harry Potter Day at Park View Primary Academy. Thanks to Steve White
Belle Isle TMO We have received 2 Back2Work Fund applications today! Both applications were for CSCS cards which if accepted will be funded through the fund.. the Back2Work Fund can also help pay for SIA (security guard) badges, fork lift truck refresher training and DBS checks for people looking to
Friends of Middleton Park This weekend’s activity. We’ll be trying to start promptly at 1pm from outside the Visitor Centre and will be out for probably about an hour and a half on reasonably good paths and tracks. We’ll be following some of the trails and sites of interest around
On Monday I went along to hear a remarkable woman called Iby Knill tell her story. She was truly inspiring, but I’ll come to that later. Iby is 93 and a holocaust survivor. I thought I knew the story of the holocaust, the Nazi’s ‘final solution’ of exterminating the Jews
Made my up to Middleton Park on a sunny but cold morning to take part in the Skye Valentine’s Day fun run (14 February 2016). A repeat of last year’s fun run. The fun run was to raise money for Candlelighters and Delete Blood Cancer UK, Skye’s charities. Skye
Beeston residents have been shocked to discover large quantities of paving slabs stolen – in many cases, in broad daylight – from the pathways of the Hunslet Moor area, just off Dewsbury Road in Beeston. This is the second spate of paving theft in the area since the New Year,
Leeds Skyline Service – the service which provides support to those living with HIV, their friends, family and carers, as well as providing educational services throughout Leeds – has announced that it has been saved from closure for a year. As reported in South Leeds Life in October, the service
The South & West Plans Committee approved a report from planning officers on the controversial Ice Pak development on Barkly Road in Beeston at the their meeting on Thursday 18 February. A summary of the report was published on South Leeds Life on 11 February. The final recommendation is
LEEDS boxer Ismail Khan has won a senior national title.The Beeston-based fighter won the vacant 52kg English title at the Magna centre in Rotherham on Saturday. Khan, who is a sports student at Bradford College and is part of their Boxing Academy, beat Ryan Gibbons of Hull to take the
Harry Goodall was an unsung South Leeds hero, who this last month passed away – aged 96. South Leeds Life here remembers his life – from the ‘forgotten village’ of Stourton, through his involvement in the Second World War, a long career at the iconic Tetley’s Brewery, and a lifetime