What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
On Tuesday (29 October 2024) the six winners of the second ever Booker Prize Indie Bookshop Spotlight were announced and they included Hold Fast Bookshop at Leeds Dock. The competition, carried out for the second year in the row, invited independent bookshops and booksellers from across the UK and Ireland
I recently visited the new Community Diagnostic Centre in Beeston. It offers a range of tests – blood tests, spirometry (I learned that’s to do with lungs and breathing) and heart monitoring – and the great thing is that people don’t have to go to the LGI or Jimmy’s to
We have been distributing copies of our November newspapers to 200 pick up points around LS10 and LS11 yesterday and today (31 October 2024). Copies are, or soon will be, available from various neighbourhood shops, charity shops, Community Hubs and Libraries, community centres, schools and pubs. We deliver to care
Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal was given an exclusive behind-the-scenes look today (Wednesday 30 October 2024) at how luxury British-made beds go from farm to factory. The royal visit at British bedmaker Harrison Spinks’ farm at Bolton Percy, York, and its manufacturing facility in Beeston celebrated the family-run business’
The Lord Mayors of Leeds and Bradford were on hand at Middleton Railway on Saturday (26 October 2024) for the formal handing over of Leeds-built locomotive ‘Hawarden’. As we previously reported when the locomotive arrived in January this year, Hawarden was built in 1899 by Hudswell Clarke & Co in
St Andrew’s Pantomime Group in Beeston have announced that this year’s show will be Babes In The Wood, a show they haven’t staged since 2011. The show, produced by Hannah Davison, will run from Saturday 18 January through to Saturday 1 February 2025 at St Andrew’s Community Centre on Cardinal
On Thursday 3 October 2024, Bisade Adeyeye, aged 10, from St Francis of Assisi Catholic Primary School in Beeston came second as the new Children’s Mayor of Leeds was announced by the Lord Mayor Councillor Abigail Marshall Katung at a special event at Leeds Civic Hall. Bisade spent much of
Swinton Lions 20-22 Hunslet RLFC Hunslet’s season went right down to the wire last night at Heywood Road, Sale (13 October 2024) as a Jack Render try with 2 minutes to go edged Hunslet in front in a tightly fought contest to send the travelling supporters into rapture, and the Parksiders into
Marking its 20th edition this year, Light Night Leeds will feature large-scale projections, live street theatre and interactive installations that will incorporate some of city’s most recognisable locations. As well as the city centre, there are six installations south of the river this year in the South Bank Zone which
At the start of September, it was sad to see the demolition of the Queens Hotel in Stourton taking place. Although it had been left unoccupied for some time, the Queens was a landmark in Stourton and was the last residential building left standing in this once thriving village which