What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Local residents are being encouraged to have their say over improvements to an important piece of green space. Brickfield Park is located on Lady Pit Lane next to Beeston Hill and close to Lady Pit Lane Allotments. Whether you currently use the park or not, the Council would like to
Police are still guarding a crime scene in Beeston after raiding the former Cuedos snooker hall on Dewsbury Road last Thursday (10 December 2020). As we reported, officers acted on community intelligence and found a cannabis farm with 500 plants plus a substantial quantity of Class A drugs. Two men
“I’ll have a blue Christmas without you,” sang Elvis Presley in 1957. 63 years later and Christmas will be ‘blue’ for many people. We’ll be missing people who would usually be with us at the special time of the year. Some of you will have lost people you love during
Last Saturday (12 December 2020) saw LS11 residents out in (socially-distant) numbers, to enjoy the spectacle of Christmas carols and festive cheer blasting out from an illuminated open-top bus and bicycle procession – as a Covid-safe alternative to the popular annual Lantern Festival. Over two hours, the bus wove its
Volunteer elves in Hunslet Moor braved heaving rain last Sunday (13 December 2020) to help Father Christmas deliver gift hampers to 124 children around the Longroyds and Garnets neighbourhoods. The project was the brainchild of members of the Friends of Hunslet Moor, to inject some Christmas cheer and spirit into
Staff from DePuy Synthes in Beeston rounded off an amazing year of fundraising and volunteering by delivering 217 Christmas dinners to elderly members of MHA Communities South Leeds (formerly the South Leeds Live At Home Scheme) last week (10-11 December 2020). In past years the company has hosted a community
Two members of staff from Asda stores in Middleton and Beeston have been singled out for praise for their selfless actions. When Rachel Cunningham saw a homeless man sitting outside in the cold by the store in Middleton she just knew she had to do something to help him. After
This week the Year 5 children at Lane End Primary School had their first Modern Foreign Language lesson with their new teacher—Rodrigo from Leeds United FC! Leeds Utd TV turned up also, to film the special event. Rodrigo, who also plays for the Spanish national team, helped the children to
Each week we publish lists of planning applications related to LS10 and LS11 published on on the Leeds City Council website. Please note that due to the Coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak Leeds City Council is not accepting written representations made by post. Please make any comments online and address them to
Officers from the Leeds South Neighbourhood Policing Team (NPT) have been busy this week, making arrests and seizing drugs in Beeston. Acting on community intelligence NPT officers, response colleagues and officers from Operation Jemlock attended an address in Beeston yesterday afternoon (10 December 2020). Two males were arrested, over 500