What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Staff from DePuy Synthes in Beeston rounded off an amazing year of fundraising and volunteering by delivering 217 Christmas dinners to elderly members of MHA Communities South Leeds (formerly the South Leeds Live At Home Scheme) last week (10-11 December 2020). In past years the company has hosted a community
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
Officers from the Leeds South Neighbourhood Policing Team (NPT) have been busy this week, making arrests and seizing drugs in Beeston. Acting on community intelligence NPT officers, response colleagues and officers from Operation Jemlock attended an address in Beeston yesterday afternoon (10 December 2020). Two males were arrested, over 500
Children from Elements Primary School in Middleton have been receiving a special treat this week, with visits to their homes from Santa. The school has had to cancel its Christmas Fair, including Santa’s Grotto, this year due to the pandemic, but was keen that their pupils didn’t miss out on
Christmas lights are going up all over South Leeds and the Winter Wonderland project is mapping them for us all to enjoy, but it needs your help. Your Space, Linking Leeds and Housing Leeds have teamed up to create an interactive map where you can plot your own Christmas lights
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
Local man, Ray Tough, has published his first book. No Body No Crime is a fictionalised account of a true crime. Ray is a man of many parts. Having worked at Cockburn school as a teaching assistant he is now a governor there as well as at Broomfield SILC. He
We have been distributing copies of the December newspaper to venues around LS10 and LS11 yesterday and today (Thursday 3 December 2020). Copies are available from various food shops including Beeston Co-op, Middleton Asda and Dewsbury Road Tescos as well as many small neighbourhood shops. Copies are also available at
The agenda for Inner South Community Committee, which will be held next Wednesday (9 Decemberh 2020) at 2pm has been published. Because of the pandemic, this meeting will be held online. The Committee is made up of the nine Councillors for our three wards: Beeston & Holbeck, Hunslet & Riverside
South Leeds Life started life after local journalist John Baron held a blogging workshop at Hillside in November 2010. There were about 8 or 10 of us around the table from a range of local community groups. At the end of the session we agreed to pool our forces on