What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
A host of cycling activities and information will be available in Cross Flatts Park, Beeston this Friday (28 August 2020). Get Set Leeds has teamed up BeCycling, South Leeds Lakers, HSBC and British Cycling to lay on activities for all ages and abilities. Call in between 12:30-3pm to chat with
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
Would you like to cycle more, but aren’t confident to ride on the road? Or perhaps you’ve never learned to ride a bike would like to now? Help is at hand with free weekly sessions running at John Charles Centre for Sport and in Cross Flatts Park. In the two
Travellers who set up camp on former South Leeds Golf Club land this week have been accused of “felling mature trees to use for firewood, churning up the land with quad bikes and car races and are fly tipping waste from their cash in hand work across the area” by
Beeston-based Spinks, a global leader in sustainable spring and comfort technology, has promoted Commercial Director Darren Marcangelo to Managing Director with a place on the company’s main board. Spinks, which is the components division of 180-year-old family bedmaker Harrison Spinks, is a world leader in steel spring manufacturing, producing some
Leeds Let’s Get Active are running free exercise classes every Monday in August to help ease back into physical activity in Cross Flatts Park and Middleton Park. The classes comprise Mind and Body (mix of Tai Chi, Standing yoga, Pilates) and Low Impact Restart exercises. All undertaken in a Covid-secure
A team from Abu Huraira Mosque in Beeston has taken it upon themselves to clean the area around the adjacent Holy Spirit Church on Tempest Road. The church has been made ‘redundant’ and the Church of England are in the process of selling the building. In the meantime the small
It’s going to be a very different festive season this year with two staples of the South Leeds Christmas already cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Today (17 August 2020) Middleton Railway announced that they would not be running Santa Trains this year and St Andrew’s Pantomime Group said they
Hunslet Nelson Cricket Club’s first XI captain Andy McIntosh admitted his team were “the architects of their own demise” as they crashed to a 139-run defeat at Bowling Old Lane. An error-ridden display in the field allowed the Bradford side to rack up 251 runs before the visitors slumped 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