What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Proposals to convert Middleton Methodist church into flats and create another fast food shop in Beeston will be on the agenda when the Council’s South & West Plans meets next Thursday (16 February 2017). Both applications were rejected by officers when they were originally submitted last year. Since then each
West Yorkshire Police Police discovered a cannabis growing set-up at a flat in Beeston yesterday evening following a firearms operation. Intelligence had suggested drugs and firearms at the address in Tempest Road, Beeston, and an armed operation was put in place to search the property and a linked address in
What do you do when your child needs new toys that you can’t afford or are too big to store in your home? Parents in Beeston Hill can make use of the St Luke’s Toy Library. The library runs out of St Luke’s Church on Malvern Road and is open
Cockburn School has launched itself into the world of social media in its latest drive to share all of the exciting and successful news and events that happen in and around the school community. Readers can search for @cockburnschool to follow the school on Facebook and Twitter. Cockburn recently worked
It’s the UK’s largest Valentines Event, and back in Leeds for the Half Term holidays will be the famous Valentines Fun Fair opening Thursday 9 February until Sunday 19 February 2017 on the Elland Road Car Parks alongside Leeds United Football Club. Each year the event seems to bring together
The latest inspection of The South Leeds Academy by Ofsted has once again found the school to be ‘Inadequate’ in a report published on Monday (30 January 2017). The report states that “Outcomes for pupils are too low. Pupils do not attain as well as they should.” However the school
Last year, seven ladies attended training to become breastfeeding peer supporters, known as Bosom Buddies. The training lasted 10 weeks and was organised through Health for All, assisted by Two Willows and New Bewerley Children’s Centres, and NHS maternity support. They and other peer supporters are now helping mums at
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 23 January 2017: Change of use of indoor football (D2) to form trampolining centre (D2); external alterations and reconfiguration
Customers of the lunchtime circuit training sessions at the John Charles Centre for Sport are up in arms at the scrapping of Friday lunchtime circuit sessions, leaving only two sessions each week, when there used to be five a year ago. Regular users say they are finding it difficult to
Local group Save Our Beeston has offered its help to get the clock at St Mary’s church back in working order. The church will be holding a sponsored walk on Sunday 12 March and the 5,000 strong Facebook group is calling on its members to back the event. The walk