What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Children from Cottingley Primary Academy took to the stage on Monday 24 June to perform live with MC Grammar, who has recently featured on BBC Breakfast, This Morning and The Ellen Show after going viral for rapping The Gruffalo while reading to his daughter. The children are also participating in
This Beeston Festival was their 25th anniversary and it was bigger and better than ever. I have lived in Beeston for over 15 years and have attended most of them but this year really topped them all. The event is incredibly well organised and planned. The food stalls were amazing
Construction of an 18-home development in Middleton by the housing association Leeds Federated has begun. Work on the site at the junction of Acre Road and Sissons Lane formally got underway as Middleton Park councillors Judith Blake and Paul Truswell attended a ceremony to mark the project. Leeds Federated says
Councillors took the opportunity of the Inner South Community Committee to raise a host of issues with a senior officer from Leeds City Council’s Highways department at their meeting last Wednesday (12 June 2019). Poor communications from officers was a recurring theme in the discussion. Cllr Kim Groves complained that
Hunslet RLFC 20-22 Doncaster RLFC Hunslet’s hopes of making it two wins from two on successive Fridays at the South Leeds Stadium were halted by a Doncaster side bent on revenge after the South Leeds club took the points at the Keepmoat on week one of the season. On that
Freedom Studios’ acclaimed stage adaptation of Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile will be performed at three community venues in South Leeds as part of a touring partnership with Red Ladder Theatre Company. Adelle Stripe’s compelling novel recounting the brief and defiant life of the celebrated Yorkshire playwright Andrea Dunbar
Damien Gaffney never expected to manage a successful team when he first took his football-loving daughter to a Hunslet Club training session two years ago. Yet now he finds himself coaching the only all-girls team in South Leeds, Hunslet Girls U10s, which has been blazing a trail. Last year the
It might seem too good to be true, but this month sees the arrival in Beeston of a temporary ‘free shop’ – where locals will be able to pick up a range of second hand goods… without paying a penny! The ‘shop’ is part of the Leave Leeds Tidy scheme,
Hunslet RLFC 34-0 Keighley Cougars Hunslet backed up last week’s impressive win at Newcastle Thunder with a thumping 34-0 victory over Keighley Cougars in the torrential rain at South Leeds Stadium last night (7 June 2019). The first of two successive games under the floodlights (Hunslet play Doncaster next Friday
The latest details plans for the new High Speed rail (HS2) route into Leeds will see a new viaduct built to carry the line high over Hunslet. As previously reported on South Leeds Life, the HS2 line is due to enter Leeds via Woodlesford and the existing train corridor through