Author: Jeremy Morton

I've lived in Beeston in South Leeds since 1984 and I love the area. I am involved in various community activities including helping to organise Beeston Festival. I have been involved with the South Leeds Life Group since it started in 2010.

Jamyang Buddhist Centre to develop new centre in Holbeck

The organisation which has been providing meditation and mindfulness classes in Leeds for over 20 years has just acquired its first premises. Clyde Works, on Ingram Road in Holbeck is a massive 33,000 sq foot space in which Jamyang are creating a peaceful community centre for locals and the wider city. The site will include

Magic Breakfast for all at Beeston Primary

This week (11 February 2019), Beeston Primary School has joined the government’s National School Breakfast Programme (NSBP), which is being delivered by the charities Family Action and Magic Breakfast. The programme is designed to ensure all children have access to a healthy school breakfast enabling them be settled and ready

Reflecting excellence in photography

Megan Stockdale, from Cockburn John Charles Academy (CJCA) beat off competition from 80 students at six schools to win the Wakefield College schools photography competition. James Pennington from the college visited the academy recently to award the prize, a framed photograph, certificate and £50 voucher for photographic equipment, as well

Planning applications 4 February 2019

Each week we publish lists of planning applications related to LS10 and LS11 published on on the Leeds City Council website. The following applications were validated in the week beginning 4 February 2019:   Landscape improvements to external areas of the Round Foundry and Marshalls Mill Round Foundry And Marshalls