What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
The ‘Save Money, Save The Planet’ campaign being run by St Luke’s CARES is holding an ‘Upcycling’ competition and there are cash prizes up for grabs. Upcycling repurposes unwanted materials and turns them into something great. The competition is for people to craft something from items that would otherwise go
Councillor Gohar Almass (Labour, Beeston & Holbeck) has announced that he is to step down at the next election in May 2024. Cllr Amass was facing a deselection battle within the Beeston & Holbeck Labour Party Branch, but announced he wouldn’t be seeking reselection hours before Tuesday night’s branch meeting
White Rose Shopping Centre is celebrating October half term with an autumnal Yorkshire Makers Market on the weekend of 28-29 October, featuring a number of local independents. The two-day Yorkshire Market invites visitors to browse a variety of stalls including: Halewood Illustrations’ locally-drawn wildlife and pet portraits Sweet Memories by
As part of this year’s recycle week (16-22 October 2023), Leeds City Council and Recycle Now are launching a fun mission for primary school children with the arrival of the big recycling hunt. Recycle week is calling on children aged 5 to 11 in Leeds to take the lead in
Police are appealing for witnesses or video footage after a road traffic collision in Leeds which left the driver of a car with life threatening injuries and the passenger seriously injured. The collision happened on the A6110 ring road in Beeston at the junction with Elland Road at 2:30pm yesterday
Ofsted has said that New Bewerley Community School in Beeston ‘Requires Improvement’, despite ‘Good’ judgements in four out of five areas. The school was inspected on 20 and 21 September and the report has been published today (17 October 2023). The inspectors praise many aspects of the school describing it
Fifth-generation family bedmaker, Harrison Spinks, has welcomed the Lord-Lieutenant of West Yorkshire, Mr Ed Anderson, to its Leeds headquarters in Beeston to formally receive its two prestigious King’s Award for Enterprise in Innovation and International Trade. The King’s representative visited the 183-year-old bed manufacturer’s Innovation Centre in Leeds to present its
On Thursday 26 October 2023, from 4-6pm, Sharp Lane Primary School in Middleton is holding a special opening evening for prospective Reception age children and their parents. Please come and join us to meet our Early Years team, have some tasty treats, and look around at all the facilities we
St Andrew’s Pantomime Group in Beeston have announced that this year’s show will be a re-telling of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island. The show, another brand new script written and produced by Rachel George, will run from Saturday 20 January through to Saturday 3 February 2024 at St Andrew’s Community
It’s a model example of engineering excellence which Leeds once put on show in a bid to impress some of the world’s brightest minds. Now a remarkably detailed recreation of the city’s historic Crown Point Bridge is among the fantastic feats set to be celebrated in a carefully constructed new