What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Kids in Beeston and Holbeck can now enjoy a newly renovated playground at Beggars Hill, with works recently completed including colourful ground markings to encourage active play. The playground now has snakes and ladders, alphabet jump, hexagon hopscotches and a roadway track marked, replacing damaged basket swings. The rock stack
A public inquiry has heard arguments for and against the closure of a footpath next to Cockburn School in Beeston during a two-day hearing which concluded yesterday (11 December 2024). Helen Heward, the Planning Inspector, conducted the inquiry to decide whether to confirm the Diversion Order made by Leeds City
Beeston boxing promoter Tristan Haynes is anticipating an “exciting and exhilarating” show next Saturday as two teenage fighters compete for the Haynes Promotions title belt with Kalem Pickles making his first title defence. “I won the light heavyweight belt in September,” said Pickles, 19, whose ambition is to become “the
This year’s Christmas production at Cockburn School was Legally Blonde. The show was seen by a total audience of 1,000 people at four evening performances and one matinee for local primary schools. We went along to the matinee which was attended by pupils from Hugh Gaitskell, Park View, Hunslet Carr
Drivers are being advised to avoid Dewsbury Road in Beeston due to a road closure after a man was stabbed. At 12.54pm today (6 December 2024) police received a report of a man being assaulted by a group of males in Dewsbury Road near to the junction with Tunstall Road.
Beeston’s annual Lantern Festival will be lighting up locations around Beeston on Friday 13 December … and everyone is invited. The festival will include: festive music and drama, a new creative competition, community awards, free hot food, real farm animals and thousands of twinkling lights. The event begins at 4:15pm
Best Midlife CIC (a locally run community interest company) has been awarded funding from our local Councillors of Leeds Inner South Community Committee to deliver a vital menopause and midlife health project for the women of South Leeds. The councillors representing Beeston & Holbeck, Middleton Park, and Hunslet & Riverside
Hunslet & Riverside ward councillors Cllr Mohammed Iqbal (Labour), Cllr Paul Wray (Labour) and Cllr Ed Carlisle (Green) joined partners, different organisations, and women from the South Leeds Community who came together to celebrate the Annual General Meeting (AGM) with Asha last Tuesday (26 November 2024) at Rowland Road Club.
Work is underway on creating new supported accommodation for homeless young people in Leeds thanks to a partnership between the UK’s leading credit management company, Lowell and local homelessness charity, Turning Lives Around. Lowell, whose headquarters employ 2,000 people and are located at Thorpe Park in Leeds, has been working
After the success of the Community Fun day at Rowland Road in August, Beeston Hill Community Association (BHCA) Committee member Shaz Akhtar, along with local craft traders, have come together to run a Christmas Market at the same venue. The Christmas Market will take place on Saturday 7 December 12-5pm