What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Leeds City Council has announced details of a multi-million pound package of measures designed to provide much-needed support to hard-pressed taxi and private hire drivers and operators. The council is making £2.5m available to fund free three-year taxi and private hire licence renewals for drivers, delivering a timely boost to
A Holbeck school has been crowned the best club in Yorkshire and Humber in the annual Kellogg’s Breakfast Club Awards. Ingram Road Primary School was voted by a panel of judges as the best breakfast club in Yorkshire and Humber. The school has received a cash prize of £1,000 to
Work will start in the coming weeks to replace damaged sections of the Cottingley Vale shopping arcade roof, which covers amenities to the surrounding community. Local Councillors Gohar Almass, Andrew Scopes and Angela Gabriel have all welcomed the long-awaited work which will see an investment of circa. £100,000 to fully
Leeds City Council is to invest £100 million on measures to help tenants save money and cut carbon by improving energy efficiency over the next five years. Thousands more council tenants will benefit from cheaper energy bills and warmer homes as a result of the transformative investment which will be
Sports courts at Middleton Park are undergoing over £100,000 of improvements thanks to a funding package coordinated by local Councillors, Judith Blake, Kim Groves and Paul Truswell. The three Middleton Park ward members have agreed to use an allocation of S106 funding that has been secured from a local development
Everyone aged 60 and over across the North East and Yorkshire who has yet had their first coronavirus vaccine dose will get their invitation this week, the NHS has announced. Almost two million letters will hit doormats across the country from Monday 1 March 2021 as the NHS vaccination programme,
Updated plans to improve the Armley Gyratory and help transform transport and travel in Leeds have been revealed. The Armley Gyratory is a key junction on the Inner Ring Road to the west of Leeds city centre. It is a major entry/exit point for traffic travelling through and into the
Garden waste Brown bin collections will resume in Leeds from Monday 22 March 2021. Due to the continued impact of Covid-19 and lockdown three on staffing levels, and the amount of extra black and green bin waste being presented as more adults work from home and the majority of children learn
Leeds City Council has announced details of additional funding support designed to help local businesses ride out the financial challenges posed by the Covid-19 crisis. The council has already distributed more than £215m worth of support to thousands of businesses in the city since the start of the pandemic. Now,
As an organisation which works to make a great city, better, Leeds Civic Trust has been in admiration of how local communities have come together during the Covid-19 pandemic. Much like their Blue Plaques, they wanted to commemorate this time in our shared history by bringing a bit of colour