What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
With Christmas looming many households will be concerned about the costs and how they will manage to pay for everything this year. Help is at hand to stop Santa bringing debt this Christmas as Dewsbury Road Community Hub are staging an information drop in session on Tuesday afternoon (22 October
Leeds City Council recognises that migrant communities are valuable contributors to the city’s economy, culture and diversity. With this in mind, the Migration Team (who are based within the Communities team at Leeds City Council) have been hard at work developing several projects and have recently secured grant funding from
A new book which aims to warn children, and their parents, about the dangers of loan sharks was launched on Friday (11 October 2019) at New Bewerley Community School in Beeston. As we reported last December, Leeds City Council’s Dewsbury Road Community Hub was awarded a grant by the England
A local Beeston boy, Alfie, 8, has achieved his Chief Scout’s Bronze Award alongside his brother Charlie. Alfie has been attending the 11th South Leeds St Luke’s Beaver colony for over two years and has attended every parade night. Through working on the award he has spent nights under the
Anyone interested in learning more about alcohol and drugs is welcome to attend a free event in Beeston on Thursday (17 October 2019). Forward Leeds are offering an event at the Hamara Centre, on Tempest Road in Beeston, providing information and advice around alcohol and other drugs. Bill Owen of
Each week we publish lists of planning applications related to LS10 and LS11 published on on the Leeds City Council website. The following applications were validated in the week beginning 7 October 2019: One illuminated freestanding advertisement hoarding St Davids Church Dewsbury Road Hunslet Leeds LS11 8AJ Ref. No:
The next meeting for residents living and working in the area is due to be held on Tuesday (15 October 2019) 6:30pm at Dewsbury Road Community Hub. The forum is an opportunity for residents to raise community wide issues with your local councillors and the Council’s partners. It’s also an
An operation targeting drug dealing and other criminality in south Leeds has seen four people arrested and drugs recovered in a series of raids. Officers from neighbourhood policing teams across Leeds focused their attention on Holbeck, Beeston and Beeston Hill this morning (9 October 2019) as part of Operation Momentum,
Last November Beeston and Holbeck marked the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War with a service of Remembrance at Holbeck Cemetery. Organisers decided to make this an annual event and shortly afterwards Cllr Angela Gabriel and The Friends Of Holbeck Cemetery launched a project to knit
A man has been arrested and charged over an assault on a bus in Leeds. Aaron James Knowles, aged 25, of Back Burlington Road, Beeston, was arrested on Saturday (5 October 2019) and charged with Section 47 assault occasioning actual bodily harm in relation to an incident on a bus