What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
The agenda for Inner South Community Committee, which will be held next Wednesday (27 November 2019) at 2pm has been published. The Committee is made up of the nine Councillors for our three wards: Beeston & Holbeck, Hunslet & Riverside and Middleton Park. The meeting starts with an Open Forum,
From a superbug jitterbug and school lessons to ward rounds and GP surgery visits, activities are taking place across Leeds to mark World Antibiotics Awareness Week (18-24 November 2019). The week aims to increase awareness of antibiotic resistance as a global problem, and to promote best practice among the general
St Matthew’s Community Centre in Holbeck was packed on Friday afternoon (15 November 2019) as Holbeck Elderly Aid (HEA) unveiled its new identity as Holbeck Together. Members and service users were joined by partner organisations, funders and local councillors for a celebration of the organisation’s work to date and to
Police in Leeds are appealing for information to help trace a man who is wanted for recall to prison. Peter Whitley, aged 36, was released from prison last month where he had been serving a sentence for theft. He is believed to be frequenting the Beeston area. Anyone who has
White Rose Shopping Centre marked the fourth Baby Week Leeds with a very special ceremony – the planting of one tree for every baby born in Leeds during Baby Week. White Rose is working with Nurture Landscapes to plant the 187 trees on its South Leeds site in honour of
Forty five jobs have been created at a new plastic recycling plant in Stourton with the promise of 300 jobs by the end of 2021. The Acting Consul General, Mr Fan Yingjie, from the Chinese Consulate in Manchester paid a visit to the OSO Polymers plant on Friday (15 November
Leeds has one of the biggest postal votes in the UK and people who haven’t voted by post before but now want to are being advised to register early in the first December general election in nearly a century. With the deadline of 5pm on Tuesday 26 November to vote
West Yorkshire Police are appealing for information following a road traffic collision on the A6110 Ring Road at Beeston in the early hours of Sunday morning (17 November 2019). The collision happened at around 4:30am when a pedestrian was hit by a man on a red Honda motorcycle. The pedestrian,
Leeds Corinthians RUFC 50-5 Aireborough Leeds Corinthians RUFC hosted Aireborough this week (16 November 2019) hoping to bounce straight back from their first defeat of the season last weekend. A nervous start by Corinthians coupled with early possession by Aireborough saw them take an early lead. The conversion went wide
Sharing the UK’s railway heritage expertise: leading experts from Taiwan visit Middleton Railway Not surprisingly, given its role as the birthplace of the railways, the UK is a global leader in the preservation, restoration and management of railway heritage. Railway museums, heritage sites and preservation societies can be found in