What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
The timetable for the local elections has been announced. On Thursday 3 May, we will elect Councillors to Leeds City Council. Because there have been boundary changes to the wards, we will elect all 99 members of the council this year. With three councillors in each ward, that means we
I visited Middleton Elderly Aid’s social centre to find out what the services they provide – meals, activities, trips, information and advice – mean to the people who use them. Rene Moore tells me she didn’t have anywhere to go until she found Middleton Elderly Aid (MEA). “I was sat
What do you do when you’re off work on a snow day? If you’re Beeston resident Ed Carlisle you gather as many people as you can and build an igloo! [slideshow_deploy id=’73728′] With plenty of snow on the ground in Cross Flatts Park, Ed and his team set about making
A man was trapped in his car after crashing in the early hours of this morning (4 March 2018) on Sissons Road in Middleton. Two fire engines from Hunslet attended the incident at about half past midnight and extricated him from the car, he was then taken to hospital by
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 26 February 2018: Two new industrial units Land Off Pontefract Road Stourton Leeds Ref. No: 18/01039/FU | Status: Current
Inner South Councillors visited The Hunslet Club’s Vocational Training project to see their funding in action. Councillors (and candidates standing in the forthcoming local elections in May) representing all three wards that make up the Inner South Community Committee took time out to visit The Hunslet Club on 29 January
The Copperworks in Stourton has been a South Leeds landmark since it was built as the Leeds Copperworks in 1894. From the invention of the Yorkshire fitting and the supply of materials for shipbuilding repairs in World War I, the Copperworks has played a pivotal role in British industry and
If you enjoy the cut and thrust of Parliamentary politics you will love This House currently on at West Yorkshire Playhouse. But I came away dissatisfied with the play. The story it tells is very well told, but it’s only half a story. James Graham’s play covers the period 1974-79.
We have all endured Snowmaggedon or The Beast From The East this week, but some us had some fun in the snow too, so here to round off the week are some pictures we took and you sent us. [slideshow_deploy id=’73686′] Thanks to Suzanne and Gracie-Mae, Jules Harrison, Richard Harrison,
Do you remember Hunslet Grange? This is the question that Gill Crawshaw and Louise Dwyer, students at Leeds Arts University, put to members of Holbeck Elderly Aid’s memory café last month. They tell us why they were asking and what got them interested in Leek Street Flats. We are both