What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Leeds City Council are currently proposing a number of plastic rubber crumb 3G football pitches on public green spaces in Leeds including on the former golf course land in Middleton Park. The council believe they are the best playing pitches available. Unfortunately their judgement is clouded by this multi-million pound
This summer sees a positive force campaign around the reduction of drink/drug driving. Drink and drug driving offences can carry really serious consequences for those involved. Not only do you risk your driving licence and potentially your employment/employability, but driving whilst under the influence of drink or drugs can have
Wasteland, beyond the window from Northern Monk Refectory, Marshall Street. It may, as part of the city’s expansion plans, be the site of more office buildings to secure more investment for Leeds, thereby strengthening financial security and creating more jobs for the city. Or it might become a park, a
A team from Women’s Health Matters staff, a local Leeds charity based in Beeston, are embarking on a sponsored, circular 100km (62 miles) Walk for Wellbeing around Leeds and through the Leeds countryside. We have set ourselves the challenge of completing this over 3 days, starting on Friday 9 September
No one can deny that Middleton Park plays a massive part in the lives of local people as one of the biggest and oldest parks and woodlands in Leeds with thousands of visitors every year. The Friends of Middleton Park (FoMP), work tirelessly to improve the park and put on
My father, Wesley (Jack) Hollingworth drove the tram on the Middleton Woods route in the late 1940s and the early 1950s. Sometimes on Sunday afternoons, if my father was working, my mother would take me and my brother Philip on an outing to Middleton, walking from our home in Beeston
Following the hottest and driest summer on record with frequent pictures on our TVs of empty reservoirs revealing previous villages which had been submerged, there have been calls to re-nationalise our water supply. But water was never a nationalised industry or service. After the widespread cholera outbreaks in the early
With many households struggling with the cost-of-living crisis and energy bills likely to rise again before the end of the year, is there any way to keep the cost of sending your child back to school to a minimum? Jodie Lockwood, Branch Coordinator at Leeds Credit Union, takes a look.
Sadly this is an article we never wanted to write, but without support we may have to close the Bereavement Centre. When we started Charlies-Angel-Centre way back in 2013, our motivation was and always has been that no bereaved family should have to go through what Charlie’s mummy did or
On Wednesday (17 August 2022) families in South Leeds are invited on a (f)un-expected family adventure at BITMOs GATE in Belle Isle as hit local theatre company Wrongsemble (Not So Ugly Sisters/Tinsel) return with the Grimm Brother’s fairytales told like never before … Meet world-famous twins Jake and Will Grimm,