What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Starting from today we will be publishing 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 25 January 2016: Change of use from Class A1 (shops) to Class A3 (restaurants & cafes)
Hunslet Hawks had a bad day at the office today (Sunday 31 January 2016) as they were outclassed by Batley Bulldogs at the Fox’s Biscuits stadium, losing 28-6. On a pitch that one player described as “a bit of a mud bath”, Batley’s superior kicking game proved decisive. This was
UPDATED 15:39 30 January 2016 Police would like to confirm that Sandra Haluskova, who was the subject of an earlier missing persons appeal, has been found. Thank you for sharing our appeal. Police are urgently appealing for information to trace a 16-year-old girl who has gone missing in Leeds.
While growing up in Czechoslovakia during the 1920s and 30s, Iby Knill was not aware that she and her fully-assimilated family were Jews, and did not even know what it meant to be Jewish. But its significance became all too apparent when Nazi racial laws were imposed, leading to inconveniences,
The Health For All’s Menspace project is starting two new activity groups in South Leeds. A new Digital Photography Club starts today (28 January 2016). The aim is to share photography skills, learn from others, get to know your camera or phone better. The group will meet every Thursday from
Connect for Health, a local NHS-funded service to improve health and wellbeing for people living in South and East Leeds, has found that social isolation is proving to be the biggest factor affecting health and wellbeing – affecting over one third (37%) of the people the service has worked with
Community volunteering charity The Conservation Volunteers’ Skelton Grange Environment Centre in Leeds have been working to clean up an area of their land that was lost following the flooding of the river Aire. A team of volunteers have been helping those across the river near Thwaite Mills, an area also
NHS Leeds South and East Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) has announced that 14 local projects will benefit from its Third Sector Grant Scheme, to help improve health and wellbeing in the South and East of the city. Leeds South and East CCG is responsible for funding and managing health services
Featherstone Rovers showed their class with a dominating second half performance to beat Hunslet 24-10 in the Hawks’ second pre-season friendly. Hawks’ new head coach Matt Bramald made a good start against his old club in front of a crowd of 1,045 at the Big Fellas stadium, but Rovers scored
The Lord Mayor of Leeds, Cllr Judith Chapman and local MP Hilary Benn were amongst the guests as the new Lane End Primary School was officially opened in Beeston on Friday (22 January 2016). The planting of a tree (a time capsule is to follow once its contents are complete)