What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
I greatly appreciate the opportunity afforded to respond, and have free speech exerted in a way that is slowly trickling away from our society. We should first make assessment of whether Councillors are able to do the job before we take into account if they care enough to do the
A few weeks back I stood in the local elections and it became apparent to me that many people simply don’t understand why they are voting or even what they are voting for, so many chose not to vote at all. Only 43.2% of those who voted wanted Paul Truswell
Last Friday (10 May 2019) Beeston residents joined forces with staff from First Direct bank in Stourton, rolled up their sleeves, and got stuck into some community gardening together. The ten-strong group tidied up the community garden outside the unused Holy Spirit church on Tempest Road, and planted new fruit
One of Belle Isle Elderly Winter Aid’s oldest Trustees retired from the Board. For over 20 years Dorothy Hopper has been a Volunteer and Trustee of Belle Isle Winter Aid. She was visited at home by Councillor’s Judith Blake and Kim Groves to be personally thanked for all her years
A new programme aiming to ensure that mums in the city have the opportunity to brush up on and learn new digital skills was launched by Leeds City Council in January. Undertaken as part of the Council’s 100% Digital Leeds initiative and led by Leeds Libraries and Adult Learning, Leeds
At Lane End Primary we love to celebrate the achievements of our children – both in and out of school. This month we celebrated a very special achievement of one of our Year 2 children. Olivia Clark attends a local Rainbow group and has worked hard and has now earned
Cockburn School has been recognised nationally for its excellent results in 2018 based on data from the Department for Education and Ofsted, analysed by SSAT, the Schools, Students and Teachers network. Cockburn School was found to be among the best performing secondary schools in the country, receiving an award for
Hunslet Club Parkside under 15s on Tour to France – Easter 2019 Hunslet Club Parkside under 15s spent Easter weekend on tour in Perpignan, South of France. Two games of rugby were fitted into a packed itinerary which included a training session on the beach at Argeles sur Mer, Go
My dog Bessie was killed by a motorbike on Cross Flatts Park. I don’t want this to happen to anyone else, so I’m campaigning to get more people to report incidents on the park to the police. On the 18 February 2019 I lost my dear dog Bessie on Cross
As we reported back in November, one of the winners of Touchstone’s MAP+ project small community grants, was Yanks Sawo’s community trip to visit the Houses of Parliament. Here, Anne Wilson describes the trip, which she joined with volunteers from SLATE, the learning disabilities charity. In the early part of