What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
The Aberfields and Newhalls Residents Association in Belle Isle invite you to the next meeting of the association, which will be held tonight. At the meeting will be Belle Isle Tenant Management Association to discuss a range of issues and the police to help with anti-social behaviour issues and local
Plans for an incinerator that would burn up to 300,000 tonnes of commercial and industrial waste a year were discussed at a Leeds City Council planning meeting. Waste management specialists Biffa plans is to build a plant at the site of the former Skelton Grange power station near Stourton that would
Local resident Al Garthwaite, from our friends at South Leeds Community Radio, has written this guest post for South Leeds Life on useful ways of keeping warm in the cold: A new programme and information CD, Keeping Warm in Cold Weather, on practical, low-cost ways of keeping warm in cold weather
The Hunslet Club is now able to help secure a brighter future for 48 youngsters thanks to funding secured by local councillors on the council’s Inner South Area Committee. Councillors unanimously voted to provide £30,980 to the club to support apprenticeships of up to six months for local young people.
A further public consultation evening will give local residents a say on plans for a new headquarters for Holbeck Police on Elland Road. The ‘community involvement event’, which will take the form of a drop-in session, will be held in the Reaney Suite at Leeds United’s football ground on Monday, March
It’s run on community spirit, goodwill and little money – but Middleton Park FC is providing a lifeline for around 170 players of both sexes aged from four to 47 years old in Middleton and Belle Isle. Curiously for a club called ‘Middleton Park’, its base isn’t in the famous stretch
The Hunslet Club is hosting a night to remember for all Northern Soul lovers. Saturday 25th Feb, 7pm until late. A Northern Soul DJ will be playing Mowtown & footstomping, flipping, spinning and handclapping northern soul with a wooden dance floor and bar. The music that became dubbed Northern Soul
Andy Hardy, the traffic manager at Middleton Railway, has written this guest post about a special anniversary and the biggest event in the railway’s history in June. This year, on June 24th the Middleton Railway will be celebrating an important anniversary. On that day 200 years ago, the first commercially
The pioneer of council housing in south Leeds – whose legacy can still be felt in Middleton, Belle Isle and across south Leeds even today – has been commemorated with a historic blue plaque marking his achievements. Social reformer the Rev Charles Jenkinson (1887-1949) was also vicar of Holbeck and was responsible for driving the clearance
It’s been a long time in coming for supporters, but there’s movement – and a potential opening date – at last in the long-running saga of Middleton’s new ASDA. One of the members of Middleton Community Group has posted a letter she received from ASDA on Facebook which says the