What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
I did it! I completed the Great North Run! It is the best thing I have ever done. Even more so because I reconnected with family. It’s a strange thing is social media. But thanks to Facebook, over 17 years ago when I reconnected with one cousin via a friend
Via Cllr Kim Groves: Another successful prosecution at Leeds Magistrates this week by our team. Dwaine Martin, a landlord from Bradford, flytipped this from a property he has in Beeston onto a Belle Isle street. This has cost him £4,500. Evidence and witness statements were gathered and
Cockburn School (Specialist Status in Performing Arts) offers unique opportunities in the Performing Arts for 2018 admissions Cockburn School are encouraging children with creative talents to make it their number one choice as they apply for secondary school places. Cockburn School are delivering a new specialist programme for pupils who
Health For All are launching two new courses at the Dewsbury Road Community Hub in Beeston next week (21 & 22 September 2017). Both courses are for adults over 19 years of age. The courses are funded by Leeds
The Royal Mail announced yesterday (13 September 2017) plans to close the Holbeck Delivery Office on New Princess Street and move operations to the Leeds City Mail Processing Unit (MPU) on an industrial estate off Wellington Bridge near the Armley Gyratory. Royal Mail, which was privatised in 2013, says the
Fifty Beeston residents came together yesterday (13 September 2017) to share food and friendship at an event organised by Aspiring Communities and South Leeds Live At Home. [slideshow_deploy id=’67286′] A group of volunteers served a mouth-watering selection of Asian food provided by Aspiring Communities including bhaji, curries, rice, chapatti and
As South Leeds Life reported yesterday, Cross Flatts Park in Beeston has won a Platinum award from Yorkshire In Bloom and this week it will host two meetings for people who would like to get more involved in events in the park. On Thursday (14 September 2017) the Friends of
It’s becoming an annual ritual for South Leeds’ gardening groups to win awards at the RHS Yorkshire In Bloom Awards, but this year two awards stand out: Holbeck In Bloom won Gold for the first time and Cross Flatts Park won Platinum. Other local winners were: Park Fisheries – Gold
With their new multiplex cinema set to open at White Rose Shopping Centre later in the autumn, Cineworld is holding a recruitment event this Saturday (16 September 2017) for team members and Starbucks baristas. The event, at The Village Hotel in Tingley, will be an opportunity to learn more about
Members of St Mary’s church in Beeston invited the members of the Asha Neighbourhood Project back to do baking with them as a thank you for cooking curries with them (as South Leeds Life reported here). Asha members were inspired by Nadiya Hussain a British baker, columnist, author and television presenter who rose to fame after winning