What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Hunslet RLFC 28-31 Workington Town Hunslet bowed out of the inaugural 1895 cup yesterday (Saturday 4 May 2019) to a resurgent Workington Town ending their chances of making an appearance at Wembley this term. The Cumbrians fresh from appointing a new coach could only muster 14 players for a game
The Labour Party held on to the three South Leeds seats in yesterday’s (2 May 2019) Council election and held on to control of Leeds City Council, losing just four of their 61 seats across the city. Results came in the early hours of Friday morning following an overnight count
If you are looking for a definition of resilience you could do a lot worse that take a look at Cockburn School student Daniel Morton. Having gone through brain surgery four times in the last five years, he has more than earned his nickname ‘Determined Dan’. “I’m determined to fight
Over two thousand runners have run over 20,000 miles around Middleton Park in the last year. If this means nothing to you, you haven’t caught up with the global phenomenon that is parkrun. It’s success lies in its simplicity: people turn up each Saturday morning to their local park at
Lists of candidates have been announced today (25 April 2019) for the European Parliamentary elections which are set to go ahead on Thursday 23 May, unless a deal on Brexit is concluded before then. The European Parliamentary elections are run on a proportional representation system. We will be electing six
A South Leeds primary school has been shocked by a damning report from Ofsted, which gave the school the lowest rating of “Inadequate”. Hunslet St Mary’s Primary School was inspected over three days in December and January but the report was only published yesterday (24 April 2019). Inspectors found the
Beeston café ‘Only Food and Sauces’ has been awarded 2nd place in the ‘Café of the Year’ awards hosted by the Yorkshire Evening Post, missing out on the top spot by just two votes. The local café is situated at 153 Dewsbury Road (opposite the Dewsbury Road Community Hub) and
Oldham 28-36 Hunslet Hunslet RLFC left it ‘til late to win an important Good Friday (19 April 2019) clash at the Vestacare Stadium in a topsy-turvy encounter on a blisteringly sunny Lancashire day. After losing at Whitehaven two weeks ago the South Leeds outfit needed to get back to winning
A snooker hall that sprung up in Beeston has been served with an enforcement notice by Leeds City Council. The Cuedos snooker hall is located on Dewsbury Road near the Tommy Wass junction, in the former Sugar Refinery building. The owners have not applied for planning permission to change the
A full planning application has been submitted to build a 64 bed care home on the site of the Omnibus pub on Throstle Road North in Middleton which closed in February 2016. As we reported in November, Parkhomes UK Ltd are planning to build and run the care home. The