What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
As part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month Hillside is hosting an awareness raising day, highlighting how to spot breast cancer and focusing on the support you and your loved ones can get to help you at this difficult time. A diagnosis of breast cancer can be frightening and the treatment
Following last year’s sell out success, St Mary’s Beeston is holding another Murder Mystery evening on Saturday 28 October 2017. Actors will present the story, but can you figure out who the murderer is and what their motive is? The evening starts at 7pm and includes supper within the ticket
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 October 2017: Change of use and alterations of residential hostel to 13 flats 118 Domestic Street Holbeck Leeds
This week my attention was drawn to an article by David Higgerson warning hyperlocal publishers like South Leeds Life that print was a cul-de-sac. People have been saying “print is dead” for some years, but going into print was a game-changer for South Leeds Life. And yet titles like the
A Police investigation is underway following the discovery of the body of a woman, in the canal off Globe Road, Holbeck, at 4.45pm today (5 October 2017). A scene was established and remains in place while enquiries are ongoing to establish the circumstances. A forensic post mortem is due to take
The Right Fuelcard Company’s reputation as a great employer which creates opportunities for the disadvantaged and long-term unemployed – has been further acknowledged. TRFC, a Hunslet-based independent distributor of Shell, Esso, Keyfuels and UK Fuels cards to UK businesses, is a finalist in the Outstanding Employer and Diversity categories of
Congratulations to South Leeds Lakers who picked up Club of the Year for Yorkshire and Humberside at the England Athletics awards ceremony earlier this week. They were nominated by club member Sharon Mann who attended the event at Kings Croft Hotel in Pontefract with 5 other members of the Lakers. The group were
Have you got a skill you can share with your community? Dewsbury Road Community Hub is part of Fun Palaces 2017, a free, international celebration of community, bringing people together with arts, science, crafts and tech, taking place on Saturday (7 October 2017) between 10am and 1pm. From sign language
A £50million flood alleviation scheme in Leeds which uses moveable weir technology – a first for flood risk reduction in the UK – has opened today (4 October 2017). The first phase of the award-winning Leeds Flood Alleviation Scheme not only uses state-of-the-art flood defence engineering techniques but is one
CORRECTION: The topping out ceremony in this article actually happened at Tinshill in north Leeds. The Springwell Leeds Specialist Academy is a multi-site school, one of the four sites is on Belle Isle Road. We apologise for the confusion. The official topping out ceremony for the final building of the