What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
The Cockburn John Charles Academy Under-16 basketball team has kicked off their National Basketball League campaign in impressive fashion, securing convincing wins in their opening matches. After narrowly missing out on the championship title last year, the team has been training relentlessly, determined to go one better this season. Their
A Remembrance Service will be held in Holbeck Cemetery on Remembrance Sunday, 9 November 2025, at 10:30am in Holbeck Cemetery. The service will be open to all, those of faith and without and tea/coffee will be served at St Luke’s Church afterwards. Hon Alderwoman Angela Gabriel BEM, who is the
The agenda for the next meeting of the Inner South West Community Committee, made up of Councillors for Beeston & Holbeck and Hunslet & Riverside wards, plus Armley and Kirkstall wards, has been published. The meeting, which is open to the public, is taking place at Leeds Civic Hall, LS1
President of the Bare-Knuckle Boxing Hall of Fame, Scott Burt, travelled from upstate New York to Leeds to see fighters from Yorkshire and pugilists from Spain and North America compete in front of approaching two thousand spectators on the now annual Yorkshire bare knuckle show staged at Elland Road’s Planet
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 Monday 20 October 2025. Click on the description to see the full application: Single storey side extension 202 Middleton
St Andrew’s Pantomime Group in Beeston have announced that this year’s show will be Pinocchio. The show will run from Saturday 6 February through to Saturday 21 February 2026 at St Andrew’s Community Centre on Cardinal Road, LS11 8AG. This is always a seasonal highlight in Beeston and bookings are
Last Sunday (12 October 2025) South Leeds paid unique tribute to one of Leeds’s most beloved and admired poets, Tony Harrison, who died at the end of September. Harrison was a Beeston-born poet and dramatist of national significance whose most famous (some might say notorious) work, V, is about Beeston
This month (October 2025) saw a new addition at the popular Rowland Road Play Patch: a ‘Little Book Stop’, a free mini library, for locals to pick up and swap books. The mini library is one of 90 installed across the country, as part of a project by publishing giant
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 Monday 13 October 2025. Click on the description to see the full application: Determination for change of use from
A new footpath across the former South Leeds Golf Club, now part of Middleton Park, has opened. The path was built following the decision to close the old cobbled path that ran between Cockburn School and its new 3G sports facility. Designed with accessibility and year-round use in mind, the