What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Slung Low, Holbeck’s own theatre company, invite you to join them in their new performance space, The Concert Room at The Holbeck on Saturday (2 March 2019). To mark their arrival at The Holbeck they have gathered some of their most talented friends to create an evening showbiz splendour. Poets,
Next step Outstanding for Cockburn School on its journey of “Transformation to Excellence” On Wednesday 30 January 2019 Cockburn School received a Section 8 ‘one day inspection’ by Ofsted. The purpose of the inspection was to determine if the school is continuing to provide a ‘Good’ education. There were three
Cllr Paul Truswell (Labour, Middleton Park) has welcomed proposals for a new gym extension at Middleton Leisure Centre. A report going to Leeds City Council’s Executive Board in February is seeking to spend £1.146m to deliver the new 75 station gym and a re-modelled entrance for the Leisure Centre. The
UTC Leeds students are putting their engineering and programming skills to the test in an innovative robotics programme led by the University of Leeds. PhD student Orla Gibson, from the University of Leeds, is working with UTC students to develop their maths skills through applied learning as part of the
This Valentine’s season, White Rose Shopping Centre will be decorated with heartfelt messages of all types as part of its Avenue of Love, an area of the centre dedicated to celebrating love in its many forms. Two hundred messages devoted to parents, partners, kids, or friends have been selected to
A new Change4Life campaign is encouraging parents in Leeds to “make a swap when you next shop” to halve their children’s sugar intake. According to Public Health England (PHE), children have already exceeded the maximum recommended sugar intake for an 18 year old by the time they reach their tenth
Police have today (Friday 8 February 2019) charged four people from the Leeds area on suspicion of offences including false imprisonment. The Yorkshire Evening Post is reporting that it understands that those accused include members of the group Predator Exposure. The four charged are: Phil Hoban, 43, of Beeston charged
Two new artworks are to appear on the Leeds waterfront later this year after successfully making bids to a new fund. Applications by the Canal & River Trust and Canal Connections CIC have been approved to proceed after being backed with funding support from the new Waterfront Enhancement Fund, set
This Valentine’s Day, Morrisons Hunslet is celebrating all love by launching one of the UK’s most colourful flowers – the Rainbow Rose. Part of Morrisons’ The Best range, the Rainbow Rose has been designed so that anyone can give it to anyone else and will be available in the Morrisons store on
A £617,000 bid by the West Yorkshire Combined Authority to fund a fleet of five ultra-low emission electric buses to serve the new, 1,200 space park and ride site at Stourton in Leeds has been successful. In addition, bus company First West Yorkshire have been awarded £1.77 million to introduce