What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Twenty-six skilled jobs have been created locally in a key green industry as a result of Leeds City Council’s investment in low carbon upgrades earlier this year. Energy and water services company Cenergist has recruited thirteen full-time employees and moved thirteen existing staff to a newly opened office in Millshaw,
The latest section of Leeds’s Dewsbury Road cycle route was officially opened yesterday (Wednesday 27 October 2021). The 1.5km section of new route between Garnet Road and Beeston Ring Road extends the existing segregated cycle lane on Dewsbury Road and will help connect more people with job, training, education and
Residents of a Beeston neighbourhood are on tenterhooks, anxiously awaiting the outcome of a planning application relating to developments that they say have already ‘ruined’ their community – in a case that has considerable relevance to the wider public across south Leeds and beyond. The developers, for their part, claim
UPDATED 30 October: Lennon Cooper has been found safe and well Police are appealing for information to locate missing teenager, Lennon Cooper from Leeds. Lennon, 15 was last seen at around 4pm on Friday 22 October 2021 in the Belle Isle area of Leeds. He is described as white male,
Police are concerned for the welfare of a 41-year-old man who has been missing for nearly a fortnight. The last confirmed sighting of Mark James Smith, from the Beeston area of Leeds, was at the Asda on Kirkstall Road, Leeds, at around 8.40am on Thursday 14 October 2021. When last
Last week almost 40 people joined workers from Better Together partners Asha and Health For All, at a World Mental Health Day picnic in Cross Flatts Park. Enjoying a buffet provided by Sid and the café workers at The Bridge Café, attendees participated in a gentle ‘mental health quiz’ about
A young man with autism was forcibly stopped by a security guard at the Aldi store on Tunstall Road in Beeston. The incident happened on Thursday 14 October when Liam (not his real name) went to buy lunch. Liam, 22, is a student at the Leeds City College’s nearby Joseph
The nights are drawing in, but one group of local residents are doing the opposite of hibernating – and they want you to join in! They have formed the ‘Beeston Nightriders’, and will be leading free local community bike rides, at night, through the winter. Their first ride is Friday
Each week we publish lists of planning applications related to LS10 and LS11 published on on the Leeds City Council website. Please note that due to the Coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak Leeds City Council is not accepting written representations made by post. Please make any comments online and address them to
Councillor Andrew Scopes (Beeston & Holbeck) is fighting to get railings reinstalled at a busy road crossing used by school children. The central pedestrian refuge between the two carriageways of Dewsbury Road at the Tommy Wass junction has been left without railings following works relating to the new cycleway. The