What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
By the time you are living in a care home you might think it’s time to rest, but Wendy Stephenson can’t stop knitting and has enlisted help from her friends Florence Hustler and Edna Varley. The three, who live at Sunnyview House in Beeston, have recently handed over a blanket
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 2 April 2018: Car wash with car parking Linden Filling Station 205 Dewsbury Road Hunslet Leeds Ref. No: 18/01911/FU
Two fire engines from Hunslet Fire Station on Dewsbury Road attended a chip pan fire at a house on Hird Street in Beeston at 9:14pm tonight (7 April 2018). The fire damaged the kitchen but was extinguished by firefighters using breathing apparatus. The house had a smoke alarm and no
The candidates for the Leeds City Council elections have been announced. We’ve published full lists of the candidates on separate pages for Beeston & Holbeck ward, Hunslet & Riverside ward and Middleton Park ward. All 99 Councillor positions (three in each of 33 wards) are up for election this year
Police are renewing an appeal for witnesses after a woman who was critically injured in a road traffic collision in Leeds died in hospital. The 57-year-old pedestrian was crossing Belle Isle Road in Middleton, near to the junction with West Grange Drive, at 8.14pm on Tuesday 3 April 2018 when
Police are continuing to appeal for the occupant or occupants of a small white car who might hold vital information about a fatal road traffic collision on Middleton Lane, Leeds. The incident happened at around 9:25pm on Friday 23 March 2018 when a 38-year-old male pedestrian, was hit and fatally
Voting has started today (5 April 2018) to decide which of the five shortlisted projects will receive grants of as part of the St Luke’s CARES Community Awards. Since January we have been publicising the work of 23 great local projects helping South Leeds people in so many ways. An
Schoolchildren in Leeds were given the chance to see the famous Tour de Yorkshire trophies last week as the leader of Leeds City Council, Councillor Judith Blake, welcomed them to the city as part of Welcome to Yorkshire’s trophy tour. Each year in the lead up to the race, both
In the last two years over 4,000 boys and girls at local schools have come into contact with Rugby League thanks to Michael Nuttall and the Hunslet Rugby Foundation, part of Hunslet RLFC. Michael spends most of his time in primary schools teaching multi skill sports, children play a range
Still time for swimmers in South Leeds to jump in and make a splash for Swimathon 2018 People in South Leeds have less than one month to sign up to Swimathon, the world’s biggest annual fundraising swim, to raise money for two great causes, Cancer Research UK and Marie Curie.