What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Here’s a roundup of some the main events taking place over the coming week in South Leeds. For full listings go over to our What’s On calendar here. We start this week with a new look and name for Hunslet Festival. It’s always a great community celebration on the field
Microsoft has bought 48 acres of land at the former Skelton Grange power station in Stourton and plan to build a ‘hyperscale’ data centre in a deal worth £106.6 million. The land has been sold by Harworth Group who bought the site ten years ago and have remediated the contaminated
Two men have been arrested over an armed robbery at a luxury watch shop in Leeds. The men, aged 32 and 40, have been arrested in connection with the incident at the TAG Heuer boutique in the White Rose Shopping Centre on Wednesday evening, where glass cabinets were smashed and
Preferred Homes will be opening their first Extra Care Apartments in Leeds this Autumn. The 63 new affordable one and two bedroom apartments are being built on Hunslet Moor Road in Beeston, next to Pennington Court care home. A community event is being held on Tuesday (2 July 2024) at
Detectives are appealing for information following an armed robbery at White Rose Shopping Centre last night (Wednesday 26 June 2024). Police received multiple calls from 8:42pm about an ongoing robbery at Beaverbrooks jewellers. It was reported that five suspects entered the shopping centre in possession of weapons including a chainsaw,
Last night (26 June 2024) South Leeds Life hosted an online hustings meeting as part of our general election coverage. All the candidates standing in the ward were invited to attend and take questions from our readers. Subjects covered included: provision for special educational needs, disability benefits, youth justice, drug
The agenda for the next meeting of the Inner South Community Committee, made up of the nine Councillors for our three wards: Beeston & Holbeck, Hunslet & Riverside and Middleton Park, has been published. The meeting, which is open to the public, is taking place at St Andrews Methodist Church,
The Friends of Middleton Park are hosting a free guided walk on Sunday (30 June 2024) looking at the history of Broom Pit and explore the land where the pit once stood. Although much of the area was landfilled and landscaped after the mine closed in 1968 there are still
Reader John Adamson has kindly sent us further images from Saturday’s fanastic Beeston Festival. With so much going on in Cross Flatts Park it was impossible for any one photographer to capture everything. In particular, John captured the Lord Mayor of Leeds, Cllr Abigail Marshall Katung and the Deputy Lieutenant
The Escapologist, the escape room based at the White Rose Shopping Centre, has been shortlisted for Family Business Entrepreneur of the Year in the 2024 Allica Bank Great British Entrepreneur Awards. The Great British Entrepreneur Awards, often referred to as the “Grammys of Entrepreneurship,” celebrates the achievements of the UK’s