Month: October 2025

Leeds residents urged to get protected with winter vaccinations

Leeds residents are urged to protect themselves and their families this winter by taking up the offer of free NHS vaccinations against flu and Covid-19. Vaccination remains the most effective way to reduce the risk of serious illness from seasonal viruses. Protection from previous vaccinations diminishes over time, and viruses

Review: V. A Homecoming

Last Sunday (12 October 2025) South Leeds paid unique tribute to one of Leeds’s most beloved and admired poets, Tony Harrison, who died at the end of September. Harrison was a Beeston-born poet and dramatist of national significance whose most famous (some might say notorious) work, V, is about Beeston

Beeston Hill, Holbeck and Hunslet landlord licensing scheme extended

Senior councillors have given the go-ahead to a scheme that aims to drive up the standard of private sector rented housing and deliver improved quality of life for thousands of people in Leeds. Proposals for the scheme – which will use a system known as selective licensing to more closely

Transform 25: Performance art festival comes to South Leeds

Transform, the UK’s leading festival for inclusive, international performance, will be taking over the city of Leeds for five days from Tuesday (21 October 2025). Transform 25 will present 14 bold, socially conscious performances that reflect and respond to a rapidly changing global landscape. 29 artists from all over the