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Wesley Street to be closed through January and February

The bottom of Wesley Street is to be closed to traffic from Monday 4 January 2021 as work to create a new cycle lane is rescheduled to avoid congestion when Leeds’s mass Covid-19 vaccination programme starts. In a letter to Councillors seen by South Leeds Life, Nick Boras, Principal Engineer

New-look Lantern Festival lights up the community

Last Saturday (12 December 2020) saw LS11 residents out in (socially-distant) numbers, to enjoy the spectacle of Christmas carols and festive cheer blasting out from an illuminated open-top bus and bicycle procession – as a Covid-safe alternative to the popular annual Lantern Festival. Over two hours, the bus wove its

DePuy staff deliver Christmas dinners to Beeston elderly

Staff from DePuy Synthes in Beeston rounded off an amazing year of fundraising and volunteering by delivering 217 Christmas dinners to elderly members of MHA Communities South Leeds (formerly the South Leeds Live At Home Scheme) last week (10-11 December 2020). In past years the company has hosted a community

Lane End’s new language teacher is Leeds United star

This week the Year 5 children at Lane End Primary School had their first Modern Foreign Language lesson with their new teacher—Rodrigo from Leeds United FC! Leeds Utd TV turned up also, to film the special event. Rodrigo, who also plays for the Spanish national team, helped the children to

Easy online giving to local charities with #GiveLeeds

#GiveLeeds campaign makes donating to local charities easier than ever this Christmas The Leeds-based social entrepreneurs behind Zero Waste Leeds, have launched #GiveLeeds, a platform to make it easy for people to donate directly to their local charities and community groups this Christmas. In just 3 easy steps, people in