What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Leeds Central MP Hilary Benn has criticised the government’s decision to close Leeds’ Remploy factory. Remploy, which provides employment opportunities for disabled people, is to close half its 54 factories, the government confirmed yesterday. Maria Miller, minister for disabled people, told MPs that the £320m budget for disabled employment services
Beeston Broncos under nines were host to Drighlington ARLFC, who in previous encounters had proved worthy opposition, writes Broncos coach Darrell Robinson. Last time these two teams met it was a very close game between two evenly matched sides and the way Drig started the game it looked like they
A groundbreaking anti-litter project has been branded a great success and is now set to be rolled out across all schools in Middleton and Belle Isle over the next three years. Acting on feedback from her community, Councillor Kim Groves (Labour, Middleton Park) arranged to set up the ‘Love where you
Local residents in Holbeck and Beeston turned out to support a campaign for plain packing on cigarettes – despite the puring rain! The event, at St Matthew’s Community Centre in Holbeck, saw in the region of 30 people brave filthy weather to find out more about the campaign, It was also attended
Your South Leeds Life is making it easier than ever before to contribute to our blog! You may have noticed that more and more South Leeds residents are contributing articles and reports to this blog – which is great, this is YOUR blog and it’s open to all who wish
Our friends at Holbeck Elderly Aid have produced their latest summer newletter. Included amongst all the latest information about the organisation there’s a timely warning about a telephone scam which some older people in the area have reported. Holbeck Elderly Aid have asked their members to be aware of calls
Why don’t we have doggy bag dispenses in our parks? I’ve just come back from a holiday in Austria, which has to be a dog lovers country – there’s no end of dogs accompanying their owners everywhere. But however hard I tried I couldn’t find any evidence of these dogs
As we’ve reported on this week’s big launch of the Middleton Life local history project today, we thought it’d be nice to share a video we found on Youtube on Middleton Railway. The video is from an 8mm silent cine film showing what things were like on the railway over 40
Interested in history? Why not join us at the Beeston History Class, writes group treasurer Ken Burton. We meet in Beeston Library on Wednesday mornings from the beginning of October to the end of April. The Class starts at 10.30am until noon. Our present course is the ‘Big History of
Residents in the Aberfield/Newhall parts of Belle Isle told a community meeting that speeding traffic is still a concern for the area. They told local community police officers that the current priority of speeding vehicles on Newhall Road should continue to be monitored and tackled by police. Residents felt this was