What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
The Government’s Department for Education (DfE) has today (12 April 2017) given the go ahead for two new Free Schools in South Leeds. As we reported back in October 2016 that the Cockburn Multi Academy Trust plan to open a new secondary school, to be called the Laurence Calvert Academy.
Students at Cockburn had special assemblies on Thursday 9 March to commemorate the death of student Kyle Asquith, who passed away following a fatal brain haemorrhage 4 years ago. A year after the 15-year-old’s tragic death, students and teachers at Cockburn launched a series of special fund-raising events in his
A group of tenants in Beeston have said they want to stay in their homes and are prepared to fight any attempt to evict them. Following our report about the threat to tenants on Kirk Beston Close and Cross Heath Grove in Beeston, South Leeds Life has been talking to
South Leeds was yesterday afternoon (Monday 3 April 2017) the scene of a major open-air fire, causing disruption for thousands of people – and a plume of toxic smoke visible from as far as away as Wakefield and Bradford. A large pile of 80 agricultural tyres caught ablaze in the
Members at the Kidz’n’Co Saturday club are celebrating after winning a Big Lottery Fund Awards For All grant of almost £10,000. The group, which meets at Beeston Village Community Centre every Saturday, supports families who have children with special educational needs. There are games and activities and a shared hot
What have the motor-manufacturing pioneer Henry Ford, politician Margaret Thatcher and the White Rose Centre got to do with my being inconvenienced? I came home on Friday to find a letter from Leeds Building Society telling me that my local branch was closing in a couple of months. This is
A mysterious ‘Welcome to Millshaw’ sign has appeared in the past couple of days on Town Street (LS11) – raising local smiles but also uproar from the Council. In the same week that the UK triggered Article 50 to leave the EU and Scotland asked for a second referendum, we ask:
The third and final day of the planning inquiry into the proposed development by Aspiring Communities of the Ice Pak site on Barkly Road, Beeston was taken up with a discussion of conditions, closing statements from each side and a site visit. In discussing conditions which would be appropriate to
The second day of the planning inquiry into the proposed development by Aspiring Communities of the Ice Pak site on Barkly Road, Beeston was taken up with evidence from Aspiring Communities. Ash Mahmood was the first witness. He stated that Aspiring Communities intentions had always been to make the facilities
The planning inquiry into the proposed development by Aspiring Communities of the Ice Pak site on Barkly Road, Beeston started today (Tuesday 28 March 2017) at Leeds Civic Hall. During the day the government appointed Planning Inspector, Chris Preston, heard from local residents and organisations and witnesses for Leeds City