What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
This Valentine’s season, White Rose Shopping Centre will be decorated with heartfelt messages of all types as part of its Avenue of Love, an area of the centre dedicated to celebrating love in its many forms. Two hundred messages devoted to parents, partners, kids, or friends have been selected to
A new Change4Life campaign is encouraging parents in Leeds to “make a swap when you next shop” to halve their children’s sugar intake. According to Public Health England (PHE), children have already exceeded the maximum recommended sugar intake for an 18 year old by the time they reach their tenth
Here’s another entry for the 2019 St Luke’s CARES Community Awards, it has been submitted by Pat Benatmane on behalf of Hunslet Green, the home of the Hunslet Warriors ARLFC. For details of how YOUR community group can enter please click here. Hunslet Green, next to Morrisons in Hunslet, looks
In this article Laura Walton responds to Cllr Andrew Scopes’ recent article on the issues around street sex work in Holbeck. We know this is a contentious issue, or rather what is to be done about it is contentious. One of South Leeds Life’s aims is to be a platform
Following two years of development since becoming a charity, Holbeck-based People Matters are now celebrating as their hard work has been recognised at a star studded award ceremony in Bradford. People Matters collected the prestigious ‘Social Enterprise Award 2018’ at the awards hosted by Social Enterprise Yorkshire and Humber. The
Here’s another entry for the 2019 St Luke’s CARES Community Awards, it has been submitted by Lauren Wilson on behalf of Leeds Baton Rouge Majorettes. For details of how YOUR community group can enter please click here. We are a Majorettes troupe based in Middleton, and we hold training sessions
Hunslet will soon have its Community Hub, with the 12-16 weeks of building work to convert Hunslet Library beginning on Saturday 16 February 2019. The creation of the Hub is a substantial investment into the communities of Hunslet, Hunslet Carr, and the newer Riverside estates. Our communities have told me
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 4 February 2019: Landscape improvements to external areas of the Round Foundry and Marshalls Mill Round Foundry And Marshalls
Police have today (Friday 8 February 2019) charged four people from the Leeds area on suspicion of offences including false imprisonment. The Yorkshire Evening Post is reporting that it understands that those accused include members of the group Predator Exposure. The four charged are: Phil Hoban, 43, of Beeston charged
Two new artworks are to appear on the Leeds waterfront later this year after successfully making bids to a new fund. Applications by the Canal & River Trust and Canal Connections CIC have been approved to proceed after being backed with funding support from the new Waterfront Enhancement Fund, set