What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Emma Pogson-Golden has won Middleton Park ward for the SDP, defeating Labour’s Lauren Summers by almost 400 votes in the Leeds City Council elections held yesterday (4 May 2023). Emma Pogson-Golden joins Wayne Dixon with the SDP now holding two out of the three seats in the ward. Labour won
As we reported last month, Beeston In Bloom have been fundraising to install a special bench to mark the Coronation of King Charles III. The bench has now been installed outside St Andrew’s Methodist Church on Old Lane, in time for the big event on Saturday (6 May 2023). Linda
A husband-and-wife team from Leeds are gearing up for the ultimate road trip next week to help raise vital funds for national healthcare charity Sue Ryder. Robert and Sara Aldridge from Beeston will be driving a Leeds United-themed banger car in a rally from Leeds to Benidorm in memory of
Hunslet RLFC 66-0 Drighlington ARLFC It’s not often in professional sport these days you get a player that sticks with a club for 10 years. If you can get that loyalty it’s a special thing. Hunslet celebrated one of those players yesterday (29 April 2023) in full-back Jimmy Watson. Watson
John Blenkinsop was a Mining Engineer and Steam Locomotive designer who was born at Felling, near Gateshead, County Durham. When he was old enough he was apprenticed to his cousin, John Straker, the Coal Viewer for Charles John Brandling’s Felling Colliery. Brandling lived at Tilling, County Durham; and he married
We have been distributing copies of our May newspaper to 200 pick up points around LS10 and LS11 yesterday and today (27 April 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
It’s ten years since parkrun first appeared in Beeston. Whilst runners and walkers celebrated on 1 April, we spoke to some of those most involved in its success. Mark Hodgkinson, the driving force behind Cross Flatts parkrun, dates its origins to a football injury that led him to take up
If you go down to the woods … Nature is gearing up to put on a spectacular display in Middleton Park – the bluebells are flowering. The leaves started appearing in January and have been growing stronger and denser. Over the last few weeks the first flowers have emerged providing
The Hunslet-built steam engine ‘Sir Berkeley’ was back in service after a re-dedication ceremony at Middleton Railway yesterday (15 April 2023). The engine, built in 1891 by Manning Wardle, is owned by the Vintage Carriages Trust and operated by Middleton Railway. Ian Smith, Vice President of the Middleton Railway Trust
The candidates for the 2023 Leeds City Council elections have been announced. We’ve published full lists of the candidates on separate pages for Beeston & Holbeck ward, Hunslet & Riverside ward and Middleton Park ward. We’re writing to all the candidates to ask them about why they are standing and