What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
This week’s Middleton Woods parkrun will honour event organiser Roger Burkhill, who sadly passed away recently. Roger was a regular member of the team on Saturday mornings as well as being was a key member and Run Leader at both South Leeds Lakers and Morley Running Clubs. He was also
On Sunday (7 December 2025) I completed my third year of being one of the photographers for the Bah Humbug 10k run event, which is held annually every December. The Bah Humbug run starts at South Leeds Stadium and the 10k run goes through Middleton Woods and around the Park,
Today (10 October 2025) is World Mental Health Day and is being marked at Gasgoigne House extra care scheme in Middleton where I live, with a coffee afternoon, with Laura doing a themed quiz. There is a lot on the news today, with one particular lady talking about her baby
I took up the challenge to walk 60 miles in June to raise funds for Dementia UK. Two miles a day might not sound much, but I have dementia and bad knees. I completed the 60 miles on 25 June, five days early. I managed to get off to a
Police searching for Andrew Holmes who was reported missing from Morley in Leeds have found a body of a man. Officers were called to reports of a man’s body being found by a member of the public on land off Dewsbury Road, Middleton, Leeds, at 6:05pm yesterday. Formal identification is
I have Dementia and it’s getting worse each year. This maybe my last fundraiser, as my health is not too good. I have no idea what the future holds, but with the help of friends, and also friends and staff at Gascoigne House, where I now live, I will be
The Neighbourhood Policing Team have been continuing their work under the Vision Zero initiative to make the roads safer in Belle Isle and Middleton. As well as supporting investigations into the recent death of a pedestrian in a fatal road traffic collision, they have been carrying out patrols in the area.
Police in Leeds are appealing for witnesses following an assault in Hunslet yesterday evening (22 May 2025). Shortly after 5pm it was reported that two males with bladed weapons attacked a man in the rear garden of The New Bay Horse pub on Woodhouse Hill. The suspects then left the
A man is due to appear in court today (22 May 2025) charged over the fail-to-stop collision in Middleton in which 19-year-old Ashton Kitchen-White was killed. Regan Kemp, aged 26, of Lafrowda Close, St Just, Penzance, has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving in relation to the collision
Members of the public helped officers from the Neighbourhood Policing Team arrest a suspected offender at a petrol station in Beeston on Thursday (15 May 2025). The incident happended at the Woodman service station on Dewsbury Road, near the White Rose Shopping Centre. In a post on Facebook West Yorkshire