What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Hunslet Rugby League club had very special guests at Good Friday’s Betfred League 1 top-of-the-table fixture with Keighley Cougars (29 March 2024). The South Leeds Stadium was graced by the presence of Richard Lucius Banks, his wife Annie and sons Adam and Danny, all of whom could be forgiven for
Police investigating the death of a woman at a house on Tempest Road, Beeston on Saturday (30 March 2024) have charged a man with her murder. A 48 year old woman died at the scene. George Chalmers, 53 of Tempest Road was charged with murder. He was remanded into custody
Emergency services were called to an address on Tempest Road, Beeston at just after 1:16pm on Saturday (30 March 2024) and discovered the body of an adult woman. Despite medical attention she was confirmed to have died at the scene. A man in his 50s has been arrested on suspicion
A 24-year-old man has been jailed for three months after he was caught upskirting by British Transport Police officers at Leeds station. Connor Hodgson, of Springwell View, Holbeck, Leeds, pleaded guilty to voyeurism and was sentenced at Leeds Magistrates’ Court on Monday 18 March 2024. He was also ordered to
A local South Leeds children’s home, Fountain House, has been rated ‘Outstanding’ in all areas following a recent Ofsted inspection. The report has no recommendations for improvement. Fountain House is run by local Social Enterprise, Five Rivers Child Care, who provide safe, homely environments and specialist trauma-informed care for children
Local campaigners are appealing for help to count the number of trees recently cut down along the local M621 motorway, to hold National Highways to account for their heavy-handed operations. The past couple of years (since summer 2022) have seen National Highways – the body who oversee the motorway network
Vastint UK, the developer behind Leeds’ highly anticipated mixed-use district Aire Park, the former Tetley’s brewery site in Hunslet, revealed a first look at its plans for the final phase of its masterplan yesterday (27 March 2024). The next step in transforming the former brownfield site in Leeds South Bank
This year’s fortnightly brown bin collections will start in Leeds from 1 April and continue until December. Leeds City Council delivers the largest garden waste collection service by any council in the UK, last year collecting 33,000 tonnes of garden waste from 220,000 households across the city. Leeds continues to
Hunslet RLFC will be welcoming the family of Lucius Banks, the first black professional sportsman in Britain, on Friday (29 March 2024) for their match against Keighley Cougars. The famous ‘Hall of Fame’ tunnel at AMT Headingley Stadium includes many players who have paraded their talents on the iconic pitch
The creative community and tenants of Marshall’s Mill in Holbeck have donated a bumper crop of Easter eggs for long-standing partner and local domestic abuse charity, Leeds Women’s Aid. A cracking number of 200 Easter eggs has been collected by tenants of Marshall’s Mill, the iconic office development in Leeds