What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
I talked about personal identity a few weeks ago and today I want to discuss neighbourhood identity. There’s a bit of South Leeds that has been purloined by the city centre. You might call it north Holbeck and north Hunslet. You might call it that post-industrial strip between the river
Award-winning FellSwoop Theatre bring their production of Ablutions to the Holbeck Underground Ballroom (HUB) on Sunday (22 March 2015) at 5pm. Picture yourself as a bartender, sipping top-shelf whiskey and watching your customers descend into nightly oblivion. Your heart is broken by the world around you and, leaving the whiskey
Beeston-based company DePuy Synthes offers a series of events to mark British Science Week. The Leeds based team of the global medical device manufacturers, DePuy Synthes, is running a special programme of events to support British Science Week 2015 (13–22 March 2015), a nationwide celebration of the best of British
Progress on the council’s major housing project is being celebrated as the number of properties refurbished hits 500 and the fiftieth new build home is completed. A year and a half after the project started, the council’s partner sc4L have now revamped more than a third of 1,245 council houses
Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook and Twitter. 3,000 bulbs were planted today (18 March) thanks to Friends of New Forest Village with support from the Council, Asda and Barratts. Sc4L, the consortium that is building and refurbishing council
Detectives investigating the attempted murder and serious sexual assault of a woman in Leeds have released new CCTV images of the man involved. http://youtu.be/zPHO6Dy8rnc The victim, an 18-year-old woman, was attacked by the man as she waited at a bus stop in Beeston Road, near to the junction with Tempest
Finding a lump in the breast can be a frightening experience for women, which is why the NHS in Leeds is asking patients in Leeds to help design appropriate breast services at an event on Monday 26 March at The Village Hotel in Headingley. The NHS clinical commissioning groups (CCGs)
Volunteers at Skelton Grange Environment Centre have been busy planting lots of trees towards the end of the winter season. Many tree in the woodlands at the centre were planted as part of a donor tree programme in the 1990s, and occasional trees are still donated, helping the centre to
The Matthew Murray memorial railings in Holbeck were given a new lick of paint on Saturday (14 March 2015). John Cummins from Groundwork led the team which included active residents: Lauren Butler, partner Conor Sheader and myself. This restorative project comes from the City Connect initiative Groundwork is involved in,
The tragic news of the death of Rhys Baker left Holbeck Working Men’s club cold last week. Rhys was the son of one of the members, Mark Baker. I interviewed Mark only last year when he had just won the Arla Lorry Driver of the year award 2014. Looking back