Category: Beeston

News and events for the Beeston area

Free gardening course to support residents towards employment

Local unemployed people in South Leeds who live with learning difficulties are invited to take up the offer of a free place on a gardening and allotment course to support their efforts to find employment or training. The course aims to help individuals gain new skills as well as improving

Have-a-go heroics from Beeston shopkeeper

An elderly shopkeeper in Beeston Hill is being hailed as a hero, after successfully thwarting an attempted robbery, and even detaining the culprit for arrest. Raja Ejaz Hussain, 69, co-runs Raja Brothers on Lodge Lane in Beeston – and was working alone in the store on Thursday evening (27 August