What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
It was a game of two halves with both the cast and audience giving 110% in this family-friendly show about a little girl’s love of the beautiful game. We met young Freddie Farren in her backyard practicing her football skills. When she finds an old biscuit box with some very
We have been distributing copies of our June newspaper to 200 pick up points around LS10 and LS11 yesterday and today (1 June 2023). Copies are available from various food shops including Beeston Nisa Extra, and Dewsbury Road Tescos as well as many small neighbourhood shops, charity shops, Community Hubs
A film showing the work of Middleton-based charity Health For All has been released today (31 May 2023). The film has been made by Locality, a national umbrella group supporting local community organisations to be strong and successful. Each year they make three or four films focussing on the work
Hunslet Rugby Foundation’s latest project is called Active Communities and all about getting people and families together, sharing some food and playing some games. The project runs at the Welcome Centre at St John & St Barnabas Church in Belle Isle on Wednesday mornings and Friday afternoons. Foundation General Manager
A congestion-easing scheme to create safer and more reliable journeys on the M621 motorway is moving forward with a new junction and further improvements near Leeds United’s football stadium. Towards the end of June, National Highways will permanently close the M621 junction 2a exit slip road, allowing the creation of
This is not just any store … this is the show-stopping new M&S Leeds White Rose It’s time – after months of anticipation, Marks & Spencer has today (Thursday 25 May 2023) officially opened its amazing new store in the Leeds White Rose shopping centre. The M&S Leeds White Rose
Cllr Al Garthwaite (Labour, Headingley & Hyde Park), who has lived and worked in Beeston for the last 40 years, was elected unanimously by members of all parties on the council to be the 129th Lord Mayor of Leeds at a meeting of full council yesterday (24 May 2023). Al
The Friends of Middleton Park have unveiled their summer programme of events for 2023 and as usual it includes live music, dance, history walks, some Shakespeare and the Great Middleton Park Show. Live music includes the Corpus Christi Band (4 June), Phoenix Brass Band (2 July), Wakefield Big Band (3
Cornwall 10-54 Hunslet RLFC After a month without League action Hunslet got back to winning ways yesterday (13 May 2023) in the Cornish sun with a 10-54 victory at the Memorial Ground in Penryn. Coach Alan Kilshaw had a strong squad for a game that was a potential banana skin,
This play, originally written in 1901 by JM Barrie who famously also wrote the story Peter Pan was the inspiration behind the name of the very recognisable and popular chocolates Quality Street. The play begins within the walls of the local Halifax, then Mackintosh, now Nestlé factory with the actors