What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
This weekend will see roadworks around the junction of the A639 Thwaite Gate, Wakefield Road and Pontefract Road to install new road surfacing, white lines and traffic signals. To allow these works to take place road closures are required. To minimise disruption the works will take place over one weekend
The Middleton Railway has announced that, subject to government guidelines, it will reopen to the public on Sunday 23 May 2021. The Middleton Railway shop and cafe will re-open for indoor trading at the same time. Steam trains will operate every Sunday and Bank Holiday Monday every hour between 10:30am and
Following an increase in complaints about litter in Hunslet and Riverside Ward – which is believed to be partly driven by more people taking up walking to work and for local exercise during the pandemic – it has become apparent some segments of the local litter bin network are being
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