Day: 29 April 2026

Review: I, Daniel Blake at Leeds Playhouse

In the Autumn of 2016, Ken Loach’s social-realist film was hitting the nation’s cinemas, and it got everyone talking. Whilst ‘We’re all in this together’ was bandied about relentlessly by politicians, up on the big screen the everyday, personal tragedy of poverty reflected what many of us were seeing across

Local dance school celebrates over 60 years of community involvement

The O’Donnell School of Dance was started by Margaret Cook and Sandra Lawson in 1960, and has been an asset to the community ever since. Based in St Andrews’s Church Hall in Beeston, the grassroots dance organisation has welcomed hundreds of children in the 66 years it’s been running, many