What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
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
If you’ve been along Water Lane in Holbeck recently you will have seen the earth movers and other machines preparing sites for new building. But did you know that they are also uncovering Holbeck’s industrial heritage? Whilst much of the history of this area was known before the diggers arrived,
On Wednesday 3 April 2019 four members of Beeston’s St Andrew’s Pantomime Group, Jane Ramsey, Simon Forster, Andrew Coffey and Ian Ferguson, attended the Awards Ceremony at Catterick Camp in North Yorkshire to collect their Duke of York’s Community Initiative Award from the Duke himself. It’s the second time that
It was June 2018 as I sat at a Beeston Festival committee meeting waiting for people to arrive, and instead of our usual one councillor in attendance, we had four! Why the sudden interest in helping … oh, it’s just been an election and we have three new councillors. My