What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Leeds LDM basketball team’s first game in South Leeds will take place on Saturday 17 August 2019 against Barnsley Leaders at Cockburn School. Tip-off is due to be at 10.15am. The side, put together by Let’s Do More CIC, is made up of players from local team the Beeston Ballers
Volunteers are helping sculpt a traditional cob pizza-oven ahead of a charity open day at a conservation centre in South East Leeds. The oven will be the centre piece for TCV Skelton Grange’s Open Day in September and is being crafted with traditional techniques and reclaimed materials. Six volunteers have
Work on Leeds City Council’s Connecting Leeds programme in the city centre will see The Headrow closed eastbound from Sunday 1 September 2019. As a result, many bus routes will be affected and the number 1 service will be cut in two with a new 10 service running on the
Middleton Woods in south Leeds was ringing with children’s voices and laughter when they joined a Health for All Family Fun day this week. Sixty local parents and children built their own magical Fairy Kingdom among the trees, making fairy doors, creating tree decorations from shells, painting stones and gathering
South Leeds Lakers held their annual ‘Hunslet Handicap’ in partnership with the Hunslet Rugby Foundation on Sunday (4 August 2019). This was the fourth running of the race, but this year a new trophy was inaugurated to remember Lakers member John Metcalf who tragically died earlier this year from cancer.
A stretch of Dewsbury Road between Hunslet Hall Road and Jack Lane will be closed to traffic overnight between 8pm and 6am for eight days starting on Thursday 8 August 2019. A diversion will be in operation taking traffic via Tunstall Road, Hunslet Distributor Road and Jack Lane. There will
Residents in Beeston Hill and Holbeck are being offered help and support to access permanent jobs working in the Estates and Facilities team in the NHS in Leeds. There are a wide range of jobs offering: flexible hours full training excellent staff benefits career development opportunities good rates of pay
Samantha does really well She does a marvellous job, at Middleton Elderly Aid. We love the trips and Entertainment and the yearly Holidays. This year went to Weymouth. The centre has really took off since Sam took over. It has made a big difference to our lives. By Vera Huphrey
South Leeds Archers marked their 20th anniversary year with a free open day at Cockburn School. Adults and children beginners were invited to practice at short-distance targets with beginners’ bows while club members displayed their ability with shots from up to 100 yards. The event aimed to increase exposure for
Edward Woffenden, Private 15/1003, 15th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment Leeds 11 was, and still is, essentially Holbeck and Beeston. It had been a prosperous area during the 19th Century, with a lot of manufacturing, including John Marshall’s Mill and Matthew Murray’s Foundry, but by the beginning of the 20th Century