What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Junior ‘parkrun’ – a new weekly running event for kids and young people – launched in style last Sunday (13 November 2016) in Beeston’s Cross Flatts Park. A mighty 57 youngsters took part in an event that organisers described as ‘amazing’ and ‘magical’. The free 2km event will now take
Students and staff at Cockburn paid their respect on Armistice Day with a dignified ceremony at the school war memorial. Cockburn students who are cadets from across the armed forces wore their military uniform to school. Led by Year 11 student Davina Nattrass, they marched along the school corridors leading
If you don’t fancy exercise bikes and weights rooms, have you thought about getting your exercise by gardening at a ‘Green Gym’? As well as (gentle) exercise, going to the Green Gym is a great way to learn new skills and meet new people. Working on an allotment plot you
The Beeston community has continued to pull together in the wake of Sophie Smith’s tragic death last month, with two local mums throwing a fundraising event last weekend (Saturday 5 November 2016) for the funeral. Held at the Tommy Wass pub on Dewsbury Road, the packed all-age event featured food,
If you enjoy Cluedo and fancy yourself as an amateur sleuth why not go along to Beeston Parish Centre on Saturday and see if you can solve their murder mystery. Actors will act out the murder scenario. Then there will be a break for questions and discussions. Finally the actors
Police are appealing for information to trace a Polish man who has gone missing from Beeston. Krzyzstof Dziegielewski, aged 30, was reported missing on October 29 after last being seen by work colleagues on October 25. Enquiries have now indicated he flew to Barcelona from Manchester on October 27. He
Next Sunday (13 November 2016) sees the launch of a weekly ‘Junior’ parkrun – for children and young people – in Cross Flatts Park, Beeston. This follows on the heels of the well-established and popular all-age Cross Flatts parkrun, launched in 2013. Originally founded in 2004, parkrun set out to
West Yorkshire Police – Leeds Inner South. Inner South PWA. Inner South Ward Officers have been out and about in Beeston today and have executed simultaneous warrants at a number of addresses searching for drugs and money. We have managed to make some arrests and seized a quantity of drugs
Beeston woke up on Friday 14 October to the tragic news that 17 year old Sophie Smith was dead and her six week old son, Harrison, was an orphan. Police were called to an address in Tempest Road, Beeston, shortly before 5am following a call from the amublance service who
On Saturday 24 September Arthur Wood, 67, an experienced runner and member of Pudsey Pacers running club, had a cardiac arrest and collapsed whilst taking part in the Bramley parkrun. Fortunately Bramley parkrun had just obtained a defibrillator which was used by a fellow runner to help resuscitate him. Following