What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
St. Luke’s CARES charity shop are due to start running their free neighbourhood retail skills courses from September 2016. This follows on from the previous TRY! Retail training course which ran for 5 weeks and only offered participants a ‘certificate of attendance’. After the success of the previous course, St. Luke’s applied and was awarded the Big
Leeds Super casino opens later this year at Victoria Gate in the city centre. There will be a range of exciting new job roles available including: Gaming staff – trainee and experienced dealers Food & Beverage – floor valets, bar staff, restaurant waiting staff, chefs and porters Management positions –
Leeds City Councillors are inviting residents to a workshop to discuss how we make our communities safer in South Leeds. The Inner South Community Committee, made up of the ward councillors from Beeston & Holbeck, City & Hunslet and Middleton Park wards meet regularly in the area and hold workshops
Hunslet Hawks have published the following obituary of Harry Jepson OBE: It is with much sadness that we learned yesterday of the death of former club secretary Harry Jepson OBE, aged 96. Awarded an OBE for his long, distinguished service to the code, Harry Jepson spent a lifetime in the
Finding the best ways to help people save money and stay warm – Jake’s experiences as a Green Doctor apprentice The Green Doctor Energy service provides home visits to residents in South Leeds to help them save money on energy bills and keep warm in winter and cool in summer.
Innovative forensic traceable liquid to join fight against paving stones thefts in Leeds A state-of-the-art initiative to tackle the theft of Yorkshire paving stones is to be introduced in hot-spot areas by Leeds City Council. South Leeds Life has reported on several incidents paving stone thefts, in the Beeston and
I was still a kid when I came to the realisation that there are two types of people in this world: a) those who are reliant on Leeds buses to get around, and b) everyone else. My parents never owned a car, so as a child I dreamed of being
Each week we publish lists of planning applications related to LS10 and LS11 published on on the Leeds City Council website. The following applications were validated in the week beginning 22 August 2016: Alterations including two storey extension above existing extension, raise roof height with dormers to both sides,
Local residents in Holbeck and Beeston have expressed growing anger around an encampment of Irish Travellers on Holbeck Moor Road. As previously reported here on South Leeds Life, the group of Travellers arrived last week Tuesday (16th August) and established a camp with about 20 caravans and mobile homes. They
West Yorkshire Police – Leeds Inner South. Cannabis Found in Belle Isle. Officers from Inner South PWA have recovered a quantity of cannabis from an address in Belle Isle . The person living at the address has been dealt with and the drugs recovered and destroyed. We do like that