What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
The Feel Good Furniture Shop (run by SLATE to provide opportunities for people with learning difficulties) has received a most unusual donation – a family bible. This impressive leather-bound volume is a Brown’s Self-Interpreting Family Bible, complete with illustrations and pages for the family to enter their key dates of
Royal Mail have announced today (13 February 2018) that they are to proceed with the closure of Holbeck Delivery Office, but postal workers are threatening industrial action to stop the move. As previously reported, Royal Mail’s plan is to close the office on New Princess Street and move the operation
In this 50th year since the legendary ‘Watersplash Final’, Red Ladder Theatre Company is touring rugby league play ‘Playing The Joker’ to rugby clubs and non-traditional arts spaces across Yorkshire. Written by award-winning author and former Sunday Mirror journalist Anthony Clavane (Promised Land/Leeds Lads), ‘Playing The Joker’ examines the People’s
Here’s our roundup of events to keep your children entertained this half term. If we’ve missed any events, please add them in the comments section below. Pancake Craft Cafe St Luke’s Church, Beeston Hill is hosting a craft cafe with added pancakes! The hall will be set up with
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 29 January 2018: New pavilion structure, removal of two trees, refurbishment to existing fixed seating and new paving to
Are you a handy woodworker, or gardener? Are you good with computers? Would you like to share your skills or gain new skills? Up to a hundred people a week are using Health For All’s Skills Hub in Beeston to explore all sorts of practical activities ranging from sewing to
Morrisons Hunslet is helping hopeless romantics navigate the year’s most difficult buying decision – what to buy your loved one for Valentine’s Day. [slideshow_deploy id=’72627′] The supermarket has worked with relationship expert Sam Owen to create a ‘Love Calculator’ for its shoppers after more than a third of people (34
The Bridge project, a service for people with learning disabilities, has opened a cafe at the Watsonian Pavilion in Cross Flatts Park. The cafe is open three days a week: Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:30am-2:30pm, serving tea and coffee, hot and cold sandwiches, snacks and light lunches. The Bridge,
Most of our readers will remember the Tetley brewery, which was a Hunslet institution for over a hundred years. Many will be familiar with the headquarters building, dating from the 1930s and built in the art deco style. But how many of you have visited it since it became an
The creation of a landmark new park in the South Bank area of Hunslet is set to move a step closer at a meeting this week. A request to approve developing the plans for the first phase of a new park to be located on land at and neighbouring the