What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
It’s the UK’s largest Valentines Event, and back in South Leeds for the Half Term holidays will be the famous Valentines Fun Fair opening Valentines Day, Thursday 14 February until Sunday 24 February 2014 on the Elland Road Car Parks alongside Leeds United Football Club. Each year the event
Being unemployed, it can be hard to stay motivated and focused when applying for jobs, especially if you feel like you’re on your own. Local charity Christians Against Poverty (CAP) is offering free job clubs that really can help, and have already helped many people gain the skills, confidence
The White Rose Shopping Centre in Leeds is to hold a recruitment drive on Saturday 25 January. The event, which will take place between 10am and 2pm, aims to attract talented individuals with team player skills for various roles within the complex from security and cleaning to customer service
The junction of Tunstall Road and Dewsbury Road is not the prettiest part of South Leeds, but it’s looking brighter thanks to a Beeston in Bloom working party. [slideshow_deploy id=’21915′] The group tackled the planter at the bottom of Rowland Road on Tuesday (14 January 2014). The ‘In Bloom’-ers
Lane End Primary, the new school to be built on the site of South Leeds Sports Centre, will receive its first intake of Reception children in September this year with the new building being completed by September 2015. The two form entry school will grow gradually with new
Beeston-based community group, Monty’s School Of Kickboxing, is celebrating this week after discovering they are one of Skipton Building Society’s ‘Big 160’, securing a slot as a winner in its Grassroots Giving initiative after winning the hearts and minds of the public and triumphing over nearly a thousand other
The Beeston Festival email account got hacked yesterday morning. We dealt with it and ironically it helped us to start organising this year’s event. Everyone on our contact list received an email, purportedly from me, saying I was stuck in Cyprus and lost all my money, passport etc and
There was another lively debate about Aspiring Communities’ planning application for the Ice Pak site on Barkly Road at last night’s Beeston Community Forum (2 January 2014). Chair Christine Thornton explained that the Forum had submitted a letter of objection to the application and that the deadline for comments
Genie marries Principal Boy in a twist on the Aladdin tale … It was a weekend of rejoicing for St. Andrew’s Pantomime Group as they celebrated the marriage of two members who had originally met during the Panto Production Aladdin back in 2007. Hannah Smith and Dominic Johnstone were
Abi Winn from The South Leeds Academy has been in touch with news of the school’s Interact Club. Last week saw The South Leeds Academy welcome the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress, along with various Rotarians from Leeds Rotary Club to the student Interact Club’s official charter event. For