What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Beeston café ‘Only Food and Sauces’ has been awarded 2nd place in the ‘Café of the Year’ awards hosted by the Yorkshire Evening Post, missing out on the top spot by just two votes. The local café is situated at 153 Dewsbury Road (opposite the Dewsbury Road Community Hub) and
Asda’s Old Lane store in Beeston has become the first of the Leeds-based supermarkets to get rid of all single-use plastic in its café, including straws, disposable cups and cutlery. As part of a new trial, the café – one of Asda’s Express Diner formats – has introduced wooden cutlery,
Harrison Spinks has received a prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise for Sustainable Development, bringing the total number won by the company to five. The 179-year-old-family bedmaker was granted awards for Innovation and International Trade in 2018 and now is one of just six companies awarded the prize for Sustainable Development
My dog Bessie was killed by a motorbike on Cross Flatts Park. I don’t want this to happen to anyone else, so I’m campaigning to get more people to report incidents on the park to the police. On the 18 February 2019 I lost my dear dog Bessie on Cross
The weather was cold, wet, driving wind: how did the young men survive the trenches, let alone the bullets and artillery? I was on a WW1 Battlefields Tour and I could get back on a warm, dry coach after half an hour: the soldiers could not. I was making a
Hunslet Nelson Cricket Club is the only surviving cricket club in South Leeds where more than 70 once existed, with some former players representing Yorkshire. But the path to its 150th anniversary year hasn’t been without its trials and tribulations. The club’s grounds have suffered arson attacks and multiple attempts
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 15 April 2019: Retrospective application for two storage containers to land to the rear of Old Peacock Old Peacock
A green space buzzing with insects and birds, beneath filtering sunlight highlighting the green grass and radiant flowers. Not a sentence you’d necessarily associate with urban Leeds but certainly a scene I was met with when I visited the Green Gym at the Lady Pit Lane Allotments in Beeston. Zoe
A snooker hall that sprung up in Beeston has been served with an enforcement notice by Leeds City Council. The Cuedos snooker hall is located on Dewsbury Road near the Tommy Wass junction, in the former Sugar Refinery building. The owners have not applied for planning permission to change the
Pupils at Greenmount Primary School, Beeston were excited to receive their new ‘Free Little Library’ this spring. The pupils at Greenmount had a few activities including a Bake Sale to raise money to commission ‘Leeds Free Little Library’ to build a beautiful mountain themed box which was installed on school