What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
A prominent new feature of the climate change landscape has been the sudden emergence of Extinction Rebellion (XR). This movement of climate campaigners formed here in the UK in 2018 and has now gone global. A volunteer-led network, it aims to build a shared sense of urgency about the climate
Health for All and Time to Shine have linked up with The Reiki Experience to offer beginners Reiki classes to over 50’s in South Leeds who would like to make new friends and learn a lovely technique that benefits the body and mind. Life can be stressful for many of
There is no doubt that humankind is heading towards a real crisis.However, what appears to be happening is that world leaders are confusing two different things. That is CAUSE and EFFECT. In focussing on trying to limit the amount of Carbon Dioxide being pumped in to the atmosphere (which incidentally
Do you believe your mobile phone works? Yes. (Unless you just dropped it in the bath, obviously.) Do you know how it works? No. Actually, nor does anyone else. Some people know how to etch ten million transistors onto a square millimetre of silicon. Some can send radio waves up
As a fan of the Zombie genre, I was worried how the play was going to bring the cult classic to “life.“ The Night Of The Living Dead, the film that brought the theme to the front of the horror film, well the flesh eating part! I didn’t need to
The Yorkshire Evening Post last week published its annual article highlighting the worst performing schools in the Leeds area and for the first time in its history, and further to the former South Leeds Academy in Belle Isle being officially closed and re-opened by the Cockburn Multi-Academy Trust (MAT), Cockburn
As many will have seen this week, knife crime and violent crime have again hit the national headlines. Figures released last week show that West Yorkshire Police have managed to reduce crimes involving a knife or sharp instrument by 8% for the period up to the end of September. This
Here at Westwood Primary School, we really believe in promoting a love for Reading throughout the school. Our children love reading both at school and at home and this is very clear from the conversations we have with the children and parents. We have recently started promoting #leedslovesreading, which we
This month will mark the 16th year since I registered Middleton Park FC with the local FA and we started to prepare three teams (U14’s, U15’s and U17’s) to play their first season of league football in the Charles Rice Junior football league. The early days were a real challenge,
2019 ended on a high for seven dancers from South Leeds as they were chosen to represent England at the Majorette European Cup in Spain. In November the British Majorette Sporting Association held try outs for the England Majorette Team, and in December seven majorette dancers from Leeds Baton Rouge