What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Here’s a little more information linking to the restoration of the Bile Beans advert in Hunslet. Bile Beans were pills which purported to cure everything from biliousness to “Headache, indigestion, constipation, piles, debility, female weakness, dizziness, sallow complexions, pimples, impure blood and liver, stomach and bowel troubles.” Wow! All that
A new five-point plan to help Leeds and other northern cities fight the spread of Covid-19 is being called for today (6 October 2020). Leader of Leeds City Council, Councillor Judith Blake has joined her counterparts in Manchester, Newcastle and Liverpool to express their concerns about the effectiveness of restrictions
Arts and Minds Network will be launching their Annual Open Exhibition online on Wednesday 7 October 2020 at artsandmindsnetwork.org.uk/exhibition. This will be their 14th Annual Exhibition but their first to be launched online to reach art-loving audiences during the coronavirus pandemic. It showcases the amazing work of Arts and Minds
Betty Barber from the Heath Estate, Beeston has been running for so long now she can’t remember when she first started, but like thousands of other athletes this weekend she was denied the chance to pound the streets of the capital because of Covid. Having secured a good for age
I have now been writing this column for nearly 18 months and I just wanted to introduce myself again to anyone that is new to South Leeds Life. I am the Neighbourhood Policing Inspector (NPT) for South Leeds and lead a team of Sergeants, police officers and Police Community Support
Hunslet & Riverside Councillors to hold residents’ meetings online two more virtual meetings set for this month. This is an opportunity for local residents and businesses to: raise issues, discuss and develop projects, have conversations with your ward councillors, police and council services. The meetings will be held on Zoom
Each week we publish lists of planning applications related to LS10 and LS11 published on on the Leeds City Council website. Please note that due to the Coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak Leeds City Council is not accepting written representations made by post. Please make any comments online and address them to
Our story starts with an earlier chapel which stood on the corner of Towngate (St Matthew’s Street) and Stocks Hill. The old Chapel dedicated to St Catherine, which is noted in ancient documents as being built between the years 1079 and 1179, and was rebuilt on the same site in
Since March, our lives have been dominated by Covid. As I write, Leeds has just been put under new restrictions which mean that families won’t be able to see anyone else in their homes. It is the rising rate of infections in our city that has made this inevitable and
Coach Elaine Brown of the Leeds Gorse Volleyball Club has been named the 2019-2020 Volleyball England Coach of the Year. The club, based at the Ruth Gorse Academy on Black Bull Street in Hunslet, was also a finalist for Club of the Year and two additional coaches were finalists for