What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Beeston is blossoming even more thanks to an innovative new partnership between Beeston in Bloom, local businesses, and the socially-minded Instaplanta company based in Hunslet Moor. Instaplanta are a Yorkshire-wide company, now newly established in south Leeds and led by a local team. They’ve agreed with the Council’s Highways Department
According to the bible Jesus fed the 5,000 with loaves and fishes and today parishioners at St Mary’s in Beeston are offering burgers to football crowds. The start of the football season has seen a return of the St Mary’s Match Day Burger stand at the corner of Wesley Street.
Residents of south Leeds are invited to a free community meal to be held on the last Sunday of each month, in the Watsonia Pavilion in Cross Flatts Park. Members of St Luke’s and St Mary’s churches, along with other local residents, are organising to put on the free two
A senior councillor has joined crews in south Leeds to see first-hand their efforts to tackle flytipping. Councillor Mark Dobson, who is responsible for the council’s street cleaning and environmental action teams, took on the role of environmental action officer tasked with investigating and clearing a flytipping incident in a
A new group has been set up for young parents in South Leeds that will meet weekly from Wednesday 2 September 2015. Called ‘Young Parents Staying Safe Together’, the sessions will look at topics such as positive play, first aid and baby massage. The group has been set up by
Lorries drive through the Garnets regularly to make deliveries to Iceland and Kashmir supermarkets on Dewsbury Road. This video shows the route delivery trucks take and outlines the problems caused by parked cars in the area. If a proposed housing application goes ahead, these problems will get much worse, impacting
Police are appealing for information following an attempted robbery at a letting agents on Dewsbury Road in Beeston last week. At around 4.30pm on Wednesday 12 August 2015, three men entered Catlow’s Estate Agents on Dewsbury Road and made demands for money. A struggle has taken place with a male
Girlguiding Leeds will be running holiday groups on Tuesday 18 and Wednesday 19 August 2015 so even more girls in the area can benefit from the brilliant opportunities offered by guiding. The groups will then run for at least two days every school holiday thanks to funding from Youth United.
The sun shone and hundreds of young people flocked to Cross Flatts Park this afternoon (12 August 2015) as Breeze brought the fun to Beeston. [slideshow_deploy id=’38733′] All photos by Jeremy Morton Breeze is organised by Leeds City Council’s Youth Services and offers free games and activities. Amongst the many
The Community team at the new Asda Leeds Beeston store recently donned their overalls, whipped out their decorating tools and helped to give Beeston Village Community Centre the 60 minute makeover treatment. The Asda team were on hand for two days to help donate their time and skills to help