What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Beeston & Holbeck Ward will have a new Councillor next May after the Labour Party choose Annie Maloney to fight the seat in place of sitting Councillor Angela Gabriel. South Leeds Life understands that it is normal practice in the party for sitting Councillors to be reselected ‘on the nod’.
Six men who took part in two illegal motorbike ‘ride outs’ across Leeds and Wakefield and showed off their dangerous exploits online have been sentenced at court. The men were brought to justice after officers from the Leeds South Neighbourhood Policing Team painstakingly pored over the internet footage to build
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 local Community Hubs have a range of new activities and festive workshops lined up this month. Community Hubs and Libraries at Beeston, Dewsbury Road, Hunslet and St George’s Centre now have extended opening hours, check full details at www.leeds.gov.uk/libraries. A free adult crafting group is running each Wednesday lunchtime
Here’s a roundup of some the main events taking place over a very busy and festive coming week in South Leeds. For full listings go over to our What’s On calendar here. Beeston’s Christmas Tree Festival continues at St Mary’s Church this weekend. Twenty local organisations have decorated, or made,
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
The announcement that the HS2 high speed rail line will not be built to Leeds has big implications, good and bad, for South Leeds. The latest version of the HS2 plans had the new railway entering the city through Stourton and Hunslet on a viaduct and arriving at a new
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. A new group led by residents and supported by Hunslet Community Hub & Library have organised a Balance Bikes session on the
We have been distributing copies of the December newspaper to venues around LS10 and LS11 yesterday and today (Thursday 2 December 2021). Copies are available from various food shops including Beeston Nisa, Middleton Asda and Dewsbury Road Tescos as well as many small neighbourhood shops, charity shops, Community Hubs and
I met five engaged and engaging stars from this year’s Cockburn School production of Sister Act in a break from rehearsals. Poppy Thompson-Clark (Sister Mary Patrick), Katie Jordan (Mother Superior), Evie Lindsay (Sister Mary Robert), Ana Da Silva (Deloris Van Cartier) and Eesaa Nadeem (Curtis Shank) range from Year 9