What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
A school in Holbeck has been chosen as a finalist for Yorkshire and Humber as part of the annual Kellogg’s Breakfast Club Awards. If it wins, Ingram Road Primary School will receive a £1,000 cash prize, plus a special party pack to help them celebrate. The Kellogg’s Breakfast Club Awards
Major new measures launched to help get residents to and from their vaccination appointments As the mass vaccination programme rolls out, the West Yorkshire Combined Authority has announced several important measures to assist local people in getting to community vaccination centres by public transport, including the introduction of free travel to
Residents in South Leeds are being asked for their help to ensure children across the area are able to access online learning during this latest lockdown. Local Councillors Kim Groves, Judith Blake and Paul Truswell are launching an appeal for people and businesses to donate unwanted laptops or tablets that
Work has started to build 245 new homes at the historic Tower Works site on Globe Road in the South Bank area of Holbeck. Sir Robert McAlpine Ltd has now commenced ground works on the 1.13 hectare site and construction is expected to complete early 2023. Sir Robert McAlpine will
Due to the very heavy snow this morning (2 February 2021) and subsequent difficult conditions on roads and paths, on public safety grounds, bin collections have been suspended for the day. Also closed today following the bad weather are all libraries and community hubs in the city. Please keep any
New ‘Aire Loft’ apartments set to bring more residents to Citu’s low carbon Climate Innovation District, with 20 per cent of Phase One reserved within hours of being released to market. Leading sustainable developer Citu has launched Aire Lofts, the first apartments at its award-winning Climate Innovation District in Leeds,
Police are appealing for information to trace missing Jozef Turtak from Leeds. The 34-year-old was last seen at about 11pm on Saturday 30 January 2021 in the East Leeds area and police are concerned for his welfare. He is described as 6ft tall with having dyed blonde hair and as
Leeds Civic Trust present their 14th year of free lunchtime lectures on the history of Leeds. These talks offer viewers the chance to be transported back to a fascinating era in the city’s past. This year’s illustrated lectures cover the white heat of the industrial revolution in our city, the
The latest plans for a £24.198 million rail station at White Rose, Leeds, are among the items to be considered by members of the West Yorkshire Combined Authority’s Investment Committee. Members will be asked to progress plans for the new rail station between Morley and Cotttingley on the Transpennine route
Plans for a transport network – including a new mass transit system – that connects all West Yorkshire’s communities to jobs, education and opportunity are set out today (27 January 2021). The proposals identify where people will live and work in the coming decades, the journeys they will need to