What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
All nine Labour Party candidates in the three South Leeds wards of Beeston & Holbeck, Hunslet & Riverside and Middleton Park have been elected in the ‘all out’ Leeds City Council election. Results were declared in the early hours of Friday morning (4 May 2018) after an overnight count at
Belle Isle TMO’s GATE Community Resource Centre will host a monthly ‘Aphasia Café’ from Tuesday (8 May 2018). The café will run on the second Tuesday of every month between 1-3pm. Aphasia is an impairment of language, affecting the production or comprehension of speech and the ability to read or write. Aphasia is
A new community radio station is taking shape at the Cockburn Skills Hub in Beeston and they are looking for contributors and presenters. The team at South Leeds Radio, led by Mick O’Loughlin, are planning a range of programming including music, women’s issues, local history, sports and South Leeds Life
Celebrate the Tour de Yorkshire with an exciting cycle around a unique track at White Rose Shopping Centre this weekend, 5 and 6 May 2018. Visitors of all ages and abilities are invited to mimic the pros, jump on a bike, and enjoy a cycle around a specially-built 30-metre bike
Leeds City Council is reminding residents that they can vote for three candidates and not just the usual one in tomorrow’s local elections. All 99 of the council’s seats are being contested this year due to boundary changes, which means every council area or ward will have three councillor vacancies.
Six girls from Middleton are setting a great example in their community after organising a charity bake sale on Saturday (28 April 2018). [slideshow_deploy id=’76070′] Friends Rosie, Lily, Hallie, Evie, Evie and Cerys style themselves as the Willowdale Girlz Club and for their first activity they decided to run the
Beeston-based mattress retailer OTTY is helping to ensure that Yorkshire’s vulnerable and abandoned cats and kittens get the purrfect night’s sleep by donating 15 of its pet beds, totalling at £1,200, to regional pet charity, Yorkshire Cat Rescue. OTTY’s pet beds will be used to help Yorkshire’s furry feline friends
Local activists have stepped up their campaign against Leeds City Council’s plan to build a Park & Ride in Stourton ahead of this week’s local elections. Thousands of residents in Belle Isle, Hunslet and Middleton have signed petitions to keep the site, just off Junction 7 of the M621 and
Police are appealing for information after an 11-year-old boy was grabbed by a man in Leeds. The boy had been playing with a friend near to a block of garages in Broom Nook, Belle Isle, at about 5.45pm yesterday (Sunday 29 April 2018) when the friend went off to a
Hunslet RLFC travelled to Kingston Park for a tough encounter with Necastle Thunder this afternoon (29 April 2018) which saw the north east side secure their first home win of the season. The first half was closely fought, but Newcastle pulled away in the second period scoring 12 unanswered points.