What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Family favourite theatre company Wrongsemble return this Christmas with HUMBUG: a Covid-safe family show that promises to delight and unite all ages. This innovative digital production will allow families to enjoy seven filmed episodes of this exciting story throughout December, accompanied by an interactive HUMBUG ‘Fact File’ filled with 13
It is with great excitement we announce that the Lantern Festival will return in December and WE NEED YOUR HELP! 2020 has been a challenging year in many ways – we hope the Lantern Festival can play a part in brightening up the Christmas season and help the year finish
In this last post of our series of articles about homelessness, we look at what you and I can do about the problem. Learn Check out websites like crisis.org.uk and shelter.org.uk for information and stories on homelessness. Give There are great local and national charities and groups working and campaigning
The Government has announced a new national lockdown with rules coming into force from Thursday 5 November 2020. For four weeks until Wednesday 2 December the Government is asking people to stay at home, except for specific purposes; not to gather with others they don’t live with, except for specific
Developer JM Construction (Leeds) Ltd has started work on the next phase of its £50M Victoria Riverside residential development in Hunslet. The latest stage of construction will create 95 apartments over two mills, comprising both new build (mill e) and the sympathetic conversion of part of the former grade II
Over the next week we will be running a series of articles about homelessness , hearing people’s real experiences of live on the streets and ‘sofa surfing’ and find out about services that are trying to help people in crisis. Here Ed Carlisle sets the scene: Winter is upon us,
We have been distributing copies of the November newspaper to venues around LS10 and LS11 yesterday and today (Thursday 29 October 2020) and have some more to do tomorrow. Copies are available from various food shops including Beeston Co-op, Middleton Asda and Dewsbury Road Tescos as well as many small
The perfect Christmas present for lovers of South Leeds’s hidden green gem, Middleton Park, has arrived. The Friends of Middleton Park (FOMP) have created a 2021 calendar with twelve spectacular photos showing the many facets of the park. Alan Shaw, Secretary of the Friends of Middleton Park explained: “Every year
West Yorkshire Police have reported seizing fireworks from a number of youths over last weekend (17-18 October 2020) according to a report on their Neighbourhood Alert system. The alert read: “Leeds Inner South Neighbourhood Police Team 2 have confiscated a large amount of fireworks from various youths over the weekend
Slung Low, Holbeck’s own theatre company, has published a children’s book and launched an initiative that aims to give every child in the neighbourhood a copy. In early October three of the Slung Low team spent a week at Holbeck’s Ingram Road Primary School reading Emergency Story Penguin to the