What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Three South Leeds organisations have been shortlisted for Child Friendly Awards which will be announced at a ceremony later this month on Thursday 29 January 2015. The Works Skatepark in Hunslet and Belle Isle Family Centre have both been shortlisted in the Best Place in Leeds for Children and Young
This week saw south Leeds charity St Luke’s Cares open their fifth charity store, in the heart of Beeston Hill on the busy Dewsbury Road – as part of a major push to become financially secure, and to safeguard their much-valued work in the local community. The new store is
A new exhibition opens this week at Beeston’s groundbreaking BasementArtsProject – the gallery in the basement of Bruce and Debs Davies’ terraced house. Saturation Point is a collection of works put together by London based curators Patrick Morrissey & Hanz Hancock that looks at work by reductive, geometric and systems
Police investigating three armed robberies in Bradford and Leeds have appealed for information. At about 7pm on Monday (12 January 2015), a man entered a house in Wooler Avenue, Beeston, and made demands for gold jewellery from one of the occupants. The man, who was believed to be carrying a
Beeston residents are helping to organise a convoy of much-needed clothing and supplies from Leeds to refugees in Iraq later this month, and are urgently appealing for help and donations. Violence in Syria and Iraq over the past 2+ years has led to millions of people being forced to flee
A new coffee shop/cafe called Brew is opening soon on Beeston Road and is now recruiting staff. They require experienced and professional people from the local area who can be flexible with working patterns able to work between the hours of 8am – 5pm, occasional weekends and work at a second
Leeds City Council agreed to designate Beeston Neighbourhood Forum on 5 January 2015. This is welcome news and enables the Beeston community to come together to discuss and resolve the issues identified when the designated area was consulted in June 2014. The process will culminate in the writing of the Beeston
2015 marks the tenth anniversary of 7/7, the London bombings. South Leeds Life has spoken to a range of local figures about those events, their aftermath and the decade since. Everyone was of course massively shaken by 9/11 and the so-called ‘War on Terror’– yet it seemed far away, something
Police are appealing for witnesses to a serious road traffic collision on the M621 on Tuesday night (6 January 2015). The incident happened at 5.15pm when a male pedestrian was in collision with a Peugeot 407 near to junction 2 (northbound) of the motorway (A643 Elland Road and Ingram Distributor).
2015 marks the tenth anniversary of 7/7, the London bombings. South Leeds Life has spoken to a range of local figures about those events, their aftermath and the decade since. Mahbub Nazir, a community activist in Beeston Hill, writes: What really struck me about the events in July 2005 was