What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
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
It’s with a heavy heart that I see once again the Parnaby estate in Hunslet must bear the brunt of further ‘development’ in the name of progress or sacrifice to the motor car. The eyesore of what looks like landscape open heart surgery at the bottom of the estate where
I would like to start by wishing everyone a Happy New Year. I hope that you have all had a safe and happy time over Christmas and have managed to spend time with loved ones. I was fortunate enough to have time off over this period but also wanted to
Mutual First Aid – Leeds to trial income-protection club for the self-employed The number of full-time self-employed people hit a record high last summer. However, for many freelance or self-employed people, being too sick or injured to work for more than a month might be absolutely disastrous – unfinished jobs
Sponsored content Community-based care workers from Be Caring, a South Leeds based social care provider, has been serving up fully decorated Christmas trees to people who they support in South Leeds. Claire Gibson, Quality Lead at Be Caring said, “If you’re house-bound at this time of year it can be
On Thursday (19 December 2019), some of the children from Middleton Primary School went to the Trinity Network to sing carols. It was a very special day for the children as they went and represented the school singing in front of a very large audience of the elderly generation and
The Co-op’s Marsh Lane funeral home has made a gift to the Charlies-Angel-Centre Foundation after the awful burglary at their bereavement centre in Beeston. We presented them with a new Xbox One S, a 24 inch Panasonic television and also a handful of games for the Xbox that have been