What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Coroner’s officers are appealing for information to help trace the relatives of Pauline Johnson from the Cross Flatt’s area of Beeston. Mrs Johnson, aged 85 from Leeds, died on 8 March 2019 at her home address in Cross Flatts Grove in Leeds. There are no suspicious circumstances. Officers would like
West Yorkshire Police last Sunday evening (10 March 2019) conducted an armed raid on a house on Crossland Terrace, just off Dewsbury Road in Beeston – and arrested four men, and seized both a car and a considerable quantity of illegal drugs. The raid followed an anonymous call reporting that
A takeaway in Leeds has been hit with a £10,000 fine after a worker suffered horrific burns when he was covered with scalding oil from a deep fat fryer. Yorkshire Fried Chicken in Beeston was prosecuted by Leeds City Council’s environmental health team after the man was left with injuries
The youngsters at the Space youth project are serving up their latest community meals next week (Wednesday 20 and Thursday 21 March 2019), and everyone’s invited – as long as they pre-book! This term’s three-course meal will be themed around Middle Eastern recipes, featuring flatbreads, tagines, and a famous milk
The parents, kids and staff at St Francis of Assisi Primary School in Beeston Hill are valiantly battling away to get a new playground by the end of the year, and are making great progress – but they need your help! This week saw their latest after-school table-top sale (pictured),
Having opened my previous article for South Leeds Life with a latin phrase this time I turn my attention to the French phrase avant-garde, or in English the Advance Guard. The origin of the term is a military one indicating a body of soldiers preceding and making preparations for the
CEG, the owners of the iconic Temple Works in Holbeck, are to hold two information drop in sessions to share the work they’ve been doing at the building in the year since they bought it. The Grade I listed former flax mill was due to be sold at auction for
Students from Cockburn School visited New York in February 2019 as part of their prize for winning The Big Deal 2019 – an enterprise competition run by York University. The team consisting of Bradley Blackburn, Amadou Dibba, Samit Miah and Jamie Myers took their winning product to pitch to executives
Well known Supermarket chain, Asda, presented Middleton Railway with a cheque for £500 on Tuesday 26 February at their Middleton store. Along with two other local charities, Middleton Railway was part of Asda’s Green Token Scheme, whereby customers get tokens to place in one of three slots, each of which
It’s sixty years since the UK’s finest first-generation tram route closed. Elsewhere in the city few knew that it existed. In South Leeds in the ‘thirties, ‘forties and ‘fifties everybody knew it was there. They had nearly all been for a ride on it in one of the special trams,